From The Diary of a Young Girl
From The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank About the Author Anneliese Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (12 June 1929–February/March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into the Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father, Otto Frank’s office building. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the Concentration Camp where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her sister, Margot Frank’s death. Her father, Otto Frank, the only survivor of the group returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, to find that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was a unique record, he got it published in ...