Notable People · 1929–1945
Born: 12 June 1929 · Died: 12 March 1945 · Age: 15
Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam and whose diary, published after her death in Bergen-Belsen, became world famous
Did you know?The notebook she used was actually a checkered autograph book she received for her thirteenth birthday.
Anne Frank's diary has given millions of readers a personal window into the horror of the Holocaust. A Jewish girl whose family had fled Germany, she hid with them for more than two years in a secret annexe above her father's business in Amsterdam. Her writing is funny, honest and thoughtful, full of hopes for the future like that of any teenager. The family was betrayed in 1944 and deported, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at 15. Her father, the only survivor, published the diary, which has since been translated into around seventy languages.
Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
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German-Dutch diarist, born 1929
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt on 12 June 1929.
She hid from the Nazis in a secret annex in Amsterdam.
Her diary has been read by millions.
She died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
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Did you know?She received the diary for her 13th birthday.
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