3. About Anne Frank
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Anne Frank, in full Annelies Marie Frank
died February/March 1945, Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp, near
Hannover
born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am
Main
4. Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands became
a classic of war literature.Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf
Hitler, Anne’s father, Otto Frank (1889–1980), a German
businessman, took his wife and two daughters to live in
Amsterdam. In 1941, after German forces occupied the
Netherlands, Anne was compelled to transfer from a public
school to a Jewish one
5. On June 12, 1942, she received a red-and-white plaid diary
for her 13th birthday. That day she began writing in the book:
“I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have
never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a
great source of comfort and support.”When Anne’s sister,
Margot, was faced with deportation (supposedly to a forced-
labour camp), the Franks went into hiding on July 6, 1942, in
the backroom office and warehouse of Otto Frank’s food-
products business. With the aid of a few non-Jewish friends,
among them Miep Gies, who smuggled in food and other
supplies, the Frank family and four other Jews—Hermann and
Auguste van Pels and their son, Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer—lived
confined to the “secret annex.”
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7. The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne
Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary
kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with
her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The
family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of
typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The
diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne's father,
Otto Frank, the family's only known survivor, just after the
Second World War was over. The diary has since been
published in more than 70 languages.
8. First published under the title Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14
Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June
1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in
1947, the diary received widespread critical and popular attention
on the appearance of its English language translation, Anne Frank:
The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United
States) and Vallentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952. Its
popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the
screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they
adapted for the screen for the 1959 movie version. The book is
included in several lists of the top books of the 20th century
