title: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
author:  Anne Frank 
description: Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
zlib_text: ANNE FRANK
  
  THE BIOGRAPHY
  
  Melissa Müller
  
  With a Note by Miep Gies
  
  Translated by Rita and Robert Kimber
  
  BLOOMSBURY
  
  Chapter 1
  
  [THE ARREST]
  
  Hush. Be quiet. Whisper. Walk softly . . . take off your shoes. Who's still in
  the bathroom? The water's running. For God's sake, don't flush the toilet!
  After two years you should know better than to be so careless. Empty the
  chamber pots. Shove the beds back out of the way. The church bells are already
  ringing the half hour. When the workers arrive at 8:30, there has to be dead
  silence.
  
  The usual morning ritual in the secret annex. At 6:45 the alarm clock goes off
  in Hermann and Auguste van Pels's room, so loud and shrill that it wakes the
  Franks and Fritz Pfeffer, who sleep one floor below. The sounds that come next
  are maddeningly familiar. A well-aimed blow from Mrs. van Pels silences the
  alarm. The floor creaks, softly at first, then louder. Mr. van Pels gets up,
  creeps down the steep stairs, and, the first in the bathroom, hurries to
  fi