Anne Frank

1929-06-12 – 1945-02-01

Jewish girl whose diary, written while hiding from the Nazis, became one of the most widely read books in history.

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. For over two years (1942-1944), Anne, her family, and four others lived in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in her father Otto's office building. During this time, Anne kept a diary in which she wrote about her fears, hopes, and coming-of-age experiences with remarkable insight and eloquence. The hiding place was discovered in August 1944, and Anne was deported to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus at age 15, just weeks before the camp was liberated. Her father, the sole survivor of the family, published her diary in 1947. "The Diary of a Young Girl" has been translated into over 70 languages and remains one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.