Is Anne Frank a refugee?

Question

i'm doing a project about refugees and i was thinking about anne frank, but wasnt sure if she wuz a refugee.... is she?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Yes, Anne and her family left her birthplace of Germany when Hitler and the n**i Party won the 1933 elections (I think she was 4 years old) because they feared anti-semetic persecution.

Answer 3

These are pages from her diary:

The previously unknown story told in the 81 pages of government papers and personal correspondence that were made public Wednesday begins on April 30, 1941, days after a Gestapo courier tried to blackmail the Franks. It ends a few months before July of 1942, when they and another family went into hiding for two years, as vividly chronicled by Anne in her famous diary.

"I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see U.S.A. is the only country we could go to," Anne's father, Otto, wrote to his college friend, Nathan Straus Jr., the head of the U.S. Housing Authority, a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt's and the son of a co-owner of Macy's department store. Straus was asked to put up a $5,000 bond.

"It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance," Otto Frank wrote.

So, in the true meaning of refugee, she did not get protection from  a country as a refuge but wanted to.  She was a refuee in her own country.  

The documents show how Otto Frank, his brothers-in-law, his friends and refugee agencies tried to navigate the bewildering maze of regulations that included gathering sponsors, large sums of money and proof of how their entry would benefit America.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/15/n...

This is an article that tells how her family used the diary as part of their refugee status to America.

Answer 4

anne never left her country. she hid within her own country and was captured. so no she is not.

Answer 5

Anne Frank sought refuge in the attic of a family friend in Amsterdam. Just because she did not flee the Netherlands does not mean that she couldn't be considered a legitimate 'refugee.' She was a refugee from Jewish persecution.

Answer 6

the definition of refugee is a person who leaves there native country to escape persecution. so yes, she was

Answer 7

No she is not a refugee. A refugee is someone who escapes from their native land due to conflict or persecution. Anne Frank was hiding out in an attic.  

Answer 8

She was a very young girl who hid from the n***s in an attic for many month but was eventually found. She died shortly after.