Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929 to a Jewish family. When the Nazis came to power, the Franks went into hiding in a secret annex behind her father's office to escape persecution. Anne received a diary as a gift for her 13th birthday, which she used to record her experiences while in hiding. In August 1944, the annex was raided and the Franks were arrested and deported to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister eventually died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. After the war, Anne's father Otto had her diary published, which has since become one of the most widely read books about the Holocaust.