4 Chapter 2 A New Home

Chapter 2 A New Home Amsterdam is a pretty city. It is crisscrossed with canals. Boats go up and down the canals all hours of the day. Anne was only four years old in 1934 when she moved there. Amsterdam quickly became her home.

The Franks' new apartment was not as large as the one in Frankfurt. But it had room for guests. Otto and Edith missed their old friends and family. So they were very happy when Oma came to live with them. They hoped other relatives would visit, too. Many other Jewish families moved from Germany to Amsterdam. The Franks soon had a circle of German Jewish friends. At school, half the children in Anne's class were Jewish. Some had even come from Frankfurt, just like her.

Anne was a good student, although she hated math. She was a chatterbox, and often teachers had to scold her to be quiet. In her free time she liked playing Ping-Pong. She started a Ping-Pong club called the Little Bear Minus 2 Club. There were five members. The name of the club came from the number of stars in the Little Bear constellation. Anne had thought there were five stars. But really there were seven. That explains the "minus 2" in the club's name.

Anne liked to read—history books and Greek myths and a popular series of books about a girl named Joop who was adventurous and lively like Anne. Anne liked ice-skating and riding her bike with her friend Hanne. Hanne went along with all of Anne's pranks. Sometimes Anne and Hanne stood

on the balcony of the Franks' apartment and poured water on the people in the street below.

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