Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ n lis ma ri n fr k], German: [ an li s ma i an f a k] ( listen); 12 June 1929 early March 1945) was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) in March 1945. Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
This book is the real diary of a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank. The Diary begins on Anne’s 13th birthday on 12 June 1942 when she receives it as a birthday present and ends when Anne is fifteen years old. It focuses on the life and world of Anne Frank who is forced to go into hiding with her family in Amsterdam to avoid German persecution during World War II. The Frank family is forced to take this difficult decision when the Nazi police send Anne’s sister a call-up notice to be deported to a concentration camp. The Diary tells us about the persecution of Jews by the Nazis in war-ridden Europe from the viewpoint of a young Jewish girl. Anne Frank’s diary highlights her dreams, love, despair, emotional conflict and never ending optimism even when the odds are stacked heavily against Anne and her family. The most important message in this book is that people have the right to live in freedom.
