The document provides background information on Anne Frank and her family, including that they were Jewish and fled Germany in 1933 to escape rising antisemitism. It describes the Nazi rise to power in Germany and their increasing persecution of Jews. It outlines the Franks going into hiding in 1942 in Amsterdam and living secretly with others until they were betrayed in 1944, arrested, and deported to concentration camps, where most of them perished by 1945. Otto Frank was the only survivor.