Why was anne frank arrested?

Question

when anne frank went into hiding, they eventually found her and arrested her. why was that?

Answer 1

because she had been hiding.

Answer 2

The betrayal of Anne Frank to the occupying n**i forces by an informant in August 1944 resulted in her imprisonment, deportation, and her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. In spite of repeated investigations the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Second World War.

As a Jewish asylum seeker, Anne Frank fled to Amsterdam from the state-sponsored Anti-Semitism of Germany in February 1934 after the succession of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor. Although anti-Jewish decrees followed the n**i invasion of The Netherlands in 1940 she and her family remained relatively safe until her sister, Margot received a deportation order in July 1942. Their father, Otto Frank immediately took his family into the hiding place he had already prepared in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of his office building in the city centre. He and his wife Edith, with Margot and Anne, were joined within the month by Otto Frank's colleague Hermann van Pels, his wife Auguste and their son Peter and then four months later by another German Jewish refugee, Fritz Pfeffer.

The eight fugitives were successfully hidden for just over two years by their small group of friends who worked in the building, who concealed the hiding place and provided its occupants with black-market food and clothes. Although the threat of discovery was ever-present, the sudden arrival of the SD (German: Sicherheitsdienst or "Security Force") and Dutch policemen on August 4, 1944 took everyone involved by surprise.

At around 10 a.m. of Friday August 4th, 1944, the warehouseman of Prinsengracht 263, Willem van Maaren was met by a uniformed German officer, Karl Silberbauer, and several plain-clothed Dutch policemen. While one of the policemen stayed with van Maaren in the warehouse, the others made their way to the first floor above where they found Victor Kugler (Kraler) in his office at the rear of the building, and Miep Gies (Miep), Bep Voskuijl (Bep), and Johannes Kleiman (Koophuis) in theirs at the front. They were instructed to stay in the room but in the confusion that followed Bep Voskuijl managed to escape with a few documents which would have incriminated their black-market contacts. Kugler was instructed by Silberbauer to accompany him and the policemen on a search of the building and after investigating the store rooms on the second floor of the front building, the officers took him to the first floor of the rear building, to the corridor in front of the hiding place. In the meantime, Miep Gies was told at gun-point to stay where she was while Silberbauer searched the building. The diaries and papers of Anne Frank were found by Miep and Bep after the eight prisoners together with Kugler and Kleiman had been arrested and removed from the building. It became apparent to Bep, Miep and her husband Jan, (who knew about and assisted the people in hiding), that the specific nature of the arrest indicated they had been betrayed rather than discovered by chance by the Gestapo

Answer 3

she was betrayed:

Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the n***s gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.

The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the most renowned and discussed of Holocaust victims

Answer 4

Because she was Jewish.  The n***s were rounding up all the Jews and putting them in concentration camps.  Do people not know this?  I'm pretty sure it was covered extensively in school.

Answer 5

for the sole reason that she was jewish.

Answer 6

Informed on by a neighbor.