Anne Frank P.S. opened in September 2014 in the City of Vaughan. The site is at the intersection of Ilan Ramon Boulevard and Valley Vista Drive. The school is named after Anne Frank.
Anne Frank, June 12, 1929-March 1945, was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family and others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.
Anne’s diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.