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Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank (: Achterhuis English: The Secret Annex), in Which She Documents Her Life in

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Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank (German pronunciation: [anlis mai an

fak]; Dutch pronunciation: [nlis mari n frk]; 12 June 1929


February or March 1945[4]) was a German-born diarist. One of the most
discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously
following the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het
Achterhuis; 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 most widely known
books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near
Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of
four-and-a-half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a
German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became
stateless. By May 1940, the Franks 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. From then until the family's arrest by the Gestapo in August 1944,
Anne kept a diary she had received as a birthday present, and wrote in it
regularly. Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to
concentration camps. In October or November 1944, Anne and her sister,
Margot, were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from
Auschwitz, where they died (probably of typhus) a few months later. They
were originally estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with
Dutch authorities setting 31 March as their official date of death, but
research by the Anne Frank House in 2015 suggests they more likely died
in February.[4]
Frank's father, Otto, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam
after the war to find that her diary had been saved by one of the helpers,
Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated
from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The
Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 60
languages.

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