Anne Frank

The Jewish girl Anne Frank has become known worldwide through the diary she wrote during World War II in Nazi-occupied Holland. The family had been forced to go underground because of the worsening persecution of the Jews. In a hideout in an office building in the middle of Amsterdam she wrote her diary from the summer of 1942 until the beginning of August 1944, when the family was finally discovered and brutally abducted by the German Gestapo. Her diary has become the most widely read document from the Second World War and one of the most read books in general.

Anne Frank

Anne was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her parents were of Jewish descent. The family consisted besides Anne of her father Otto Frank, who ran a business, her mother Edith Frank and Anne's a few years older sister Margot. In 1933 the family emigrated to Holland to escape the increasingly vicious anti-Jewish sentiments in Germany. Her father established his business in Amsterdam. At first everything looked fine. Anne started school and had many friends. She was a spirited and lively girl who loved to have fun and joke and be in the center.

But then dark threats began looming. The great World War began and Hitler's Germany invaded Holland in May 1940. The situation for the Jewish population became more and more difficult. Eventually it became quite unbearable and the Frank family decided to go underground. In July 1942 - when Anne had just turned 13 years - they hid in a warehouse in the yard behind her father's office. Business operations were now handled by non-Jews, loyal employees who also were those who for the next two years secretly helped the hidden family and provided them with the necessities of life.

Another family, the van Pels (in the diary called van Daan) and a dentist, Fritz Pfeiffer (Albert Dussel in the diary), joined the people in hiding. (Anne changed some of the names of the persons in the event her diary would be published after the war.) Miep Gies, the clerk in the company and one of those who helped with the necessities, later wrote the book "Anne Frank Remembered", an interesting complement to the diary. While the diary depicts what happened inside the hiding retreat, Gies describes the events outside. Miep Gies lived until she was a hundred years. She died in 2010 as the last person in the circle around Anne Frank.

Miep Gies

The diary had been given to Anne as a birthday present from her father and she began to write in it on her thirteenth birthday, on June 12, 1942, just weeks before the family went into hiding. In the diary we follow the young, lively and communicative teenager's thoughts on life and the conditions of the strenuous and prolonged confinement in the cramped hiding place. It is a poignant story of a small group of people struggling to survive under almost impossible conditions - trapped in a small space and with the whole world on fire outside. At night bombers roar and anti-aircraft fire clatter and in the day they are forced to sneak silent on the creaking floor boards not to make themselves heard.

The people in hiding tried to make it as tolerable as possible during the two-year captivity. Still, it was inevitable that there were conflicts and irritation. We can imagine how difficult it must have been for the lively and extroverted Anne being trapped for so long and at such an important period in her life, her early teens. In the diary, which she gave the name "Kitty," she wrote, "Yes, Kitty, there is no little thing being the misbehaving center of an always criticizing and disciplining subterranean family". Particularly difficult was her relation with her mother that she did not agree with. Anne was more "daddy's girl" while her sister, the more calm and sedate Margot, came easier in agreement with their mother.

Anne's father, Otto Frank, was the only one of the hidden group who survived the war. Miep Gies took care of of Anne's diary after the arrest and later handed it over to Otto Frank, who agreed to publish his daughter's diary in 1947. After they were arrested all in the group were sent to various concentration camps, Anne and Margot to Bergen-Belsen, where the two sisters died of typhus sometime in March 1945, about a month before the camp was liberated. Nothing is otherwise known about Anne's time in the concentration camp.

Anne Frank's birth chart looks like this:

Anne Frank, June 12, 1929, 07:30, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

(Source: Astro DataBank)

Anne Frank never got the opportunity to fully develop her personality. She died only 15 years old, before she reached adulthood. Yet she exhibited many characteristics that are reflected in her horoscope.

Dominant signs are Leo (with the Moon, the Ascendant, Mars and Neptune), Gemini (with the Sun and Mercury) and Aries (with MC and Uranus). It describes Anne as a confident, warm-hearted and generous person with a flair for drama and spectacle (Leo), communicative, witty, curious, versatile (Gemini) and enterprising, energetic, courageous and assertive (Aries) - exactly the image given by the diary and other testimony.

The Fire element is most prominent - strong motivation, vitality, enthusiasm and spontaneity. Fixed signs dominate - persistence, tenacity, trustworthiness. The most prominent houses are the Second (resources, talents, values), the Tenth (life direction and goals) and the Eleventh (friends, groups, ideals, hopes and dreams).

The fourth quadrant and the eastern hemisphere dominate - we are dealing with a self-motivated person who wants to stake out her own life, to follow her own path, who values her independence but also wants to put her imprint on the environment. The Moon phase is waxing - we have a forward-looking little girl with a belief in her own abilities.

With the Ascendant in Leo, she projected a warm, generous and enthusiastic personality. Both at school, before the family went into hiding, and then in the small hiding place, she was always the given midpoint. Of her school years she wrote in the diary: "What did they call me in school? The leader of all pranks and frolic. 'Anne in the lead', never sour or depressed! Was it any wonder that they gladly biked with me and showed me their attention?"

And Miep Gies writes: "The fact was that Anne had learned the art of mimicking. She imitated everything and everyone and did it very well too: the cat's meow, her best friend's voice, her teacher's authoritative tone. We could not help but laugh at her small performances, she was so adept at disguising her voice. Anne loved to have an attentive audience and loved to hear our response to her parodies and clownings."

Miep Gies also tells how much Anne loved to play theater at school and about her passion for the movies and movie stars. In the hideout she decorated the wall above her bed with pictures of famous movie stars - Ray Milland, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Ginger Rogers …

With Uranus in Aries in conjunction with MC we understand how incredibly difficult and restrictive she must have found her confinement and imprisonment. All the time she looked eagerly forward to freedom. There was so much she wanted to do. Her desire was to become a journalist or writer, which is also seen in the Sun and Mercury in conjunction in communicative Gemini in the Eleventh House. The Sun rules the Ascendant and the Second House of abilities and talents, where it disposes the Moon and Neptune. Mercury in turn rules both the Twelfth House of her inner life and also the Third of communication and writing. The Mercurial pull is strong in Anne. In school she even became known as "Mercury-Anne" and "Miss Chatterbox".

The Moon in Leo enhances the Ascendant's warmth, enthusiasm and attention needs. The conjunction of the Moon with Neptune shows her soft sensitivity and imagination. She had a both artistic and creative as well as spiritual potential. At the same time it implies a difficulty getting along with her mother, something she addresses in her diary. She was disillusioned and disappointed (Neptune) with her mother (Moon) that did not understand her. The characteristic Leo side of Anne is further reinforced by Mars in Leo on the Second house cusp, which also forms a sextile to Mercury in Gemini.

The planets in the emphasized Eleventh House of friends and groups reflect of course the small group in hiding, whom she came to share her fate with. The Sun in conjunction with Mercury shows her as the team's cheerful sunbeam. Miep Gies, who often visited the hideout, describes Anne as "the youngest and most vibrant of us" and "the family's most outgoing personality." Jupiter in the Eleventh House in conjunction with the North Lunar node points to the importance of friends and a group for Anne and also how important her goals and dreams (also the Eleventh House) were to her. It also gives an indication of her ability to inspire and enliven the others by her vigor and alertness. Jupiter rules the Sixth House of daily routines in which, however, it disposes the limiting Saturn right on the House cusp - everyday life was extremely restrictive and limited because of the imprisonment.

The Twelfth House is ruled through Gemini by Mercury and reflects the significance of the inner life and imagination for the trapped Anne. It also demonstrates the solitude and exile at first in the family's hiding place and then in the concentration camp where Anne lived during the last six months of her life. Pluto - planet of death - in Cancer in the Twelfth House reflects how Anne, along with her sister Margot, was hit by the tyfus epedmic that ravaged in the camp and put an end to her life.

Pars Fortunae - the Part of Fortune - is at the bottom of the chart, just on the Fourth House cusp in Venus-ruled Libra. As evidenced from her diary, what brought Anne the greatest joy and fulfillment was no doubt her interactions with other people and the establishment of good relationships between people (Venus, Libra). This was something quite natural for the witty, lively, outgoing and warm-hearted Anne Frank.