Summary

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [anəˈliːs maˈʁiː ˈfʁaŋk], Dutch: [ɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk]; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

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Statue of Anne Frank, by Mari Andriessen, outside the Westerkerk in Amsterdam
Statue of Anne Frank, by Mari Andriessen, outside the Westerkerk in Amsterdam
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The Secret Annexe with its light-coloured walls and orange roof (bottom) and the Anne Frank tree in the garden behind the house (bottom right), seen from the Westerkerk in 2004
People waiting in line in front of the Anne Frank House entrance in Amsterdam
People waiting in line in front of the Anne Frank House entrance in Amsterdam
 
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