10 Chapter 8 Caught!

Chapter 8 Caught! By the time Anne turned fifteen, the families had been in hiding for almost two years—more than 650 days. It was June 1944. The war was

drawing to a close. Italy, once an ally of Germany, had surrendered. The Allied forces were freeing France. On a map pinned to a wall of the Annex, Otto kept track of the Allies' progress. To Anne it was as if friends were approaching. She began looking ahead to freedom.

On July 15, 1944, she wrote, "I think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end . . . In the meantime I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out!"

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TWO LEADERS DURING WORLD WAR II, WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NOT ONLY WERE UNITED AGAINST THE GERMANS BUT BECAME CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS. ROOSEVELT WAS SERVING HIS THIRD TERM AS PRESIDENT WHEN THE UNITED STATES JOINED THE ALLIED FORCES AT THE END OF 1941. THAT HELPED TURN THE TIDE OF THE WAR. HE AND CHURCHILL MET SECRETLY TO COORDINATE THE ATTACKS AGAINST THEIR COMMON ENEMY. A VICTIM OF POLIO WHO WAS CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL PRESIDENTS. SADLY, HE DIED

In APRIL OF 1945, ONLY MONTHS BEFORE THE WAR ENDED. WINSTON CHURCHILL