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Anne Frank
Recording life in hiding from Nazi persecution in The Diary of a Young Girl.
Original diary · Revised diary
- Born
- 12 June 1929
- Birthplace
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Died
- 1945
More people
Anne Frank
A Jewish teenager whose diary preserved an individual voice from the Holocaust. She wrote about fear, family conflict, hopes and the wish to become an author.
Early life
Flight from Germany
Her family moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis came to power.
School under occupation
Anti-Jewish restrictions increasingly limited her education and daily life.
Career
- 1942
Diary begins
Received a diary shortly before her family went into hiding.
- 1942–1944
Secret Annex
Wrote while concealed with seven other people in Amsterdam.
- 1944
Rewriting for publication
Began revising her diary after hearing an appeal to preserve wartime accounts.
- 1944–1945
Arrest and deportation
Was deported to camps and died in Bergen-Belsen.
Selected work
Original diary
A record of everyday experience in hiding.
Revised diary
Reworked earlier entries with a future book in mind.
The Secret Annex
Her father arranged the first publication after the war.
Beyond the diary
Other writing
Also wrote stories and collected favourite passages from books.
Preservation
Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl saved her papers; Otto Frank survived to arrange publication.
Death date
The exact date is unknown; research places her death most probably in February 1945.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Anne Frank House: diary revisions ↗Research on the date of death ↗Photo: Unknown photographer. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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