![]() ![]() In 1931, the family moved to Ganghoferstrasse 24 in a fashionable liberal area of Dornbusch, called the Dichterviertel (Poets' Quarter). At the time of Anne's birth, the family lived in a house at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt- Dornbusch, where they rented two floors. Edith and Otto were devoted parents, who were interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library both parents encouraged the children to read. They lived in an assimilated community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of various religions. The Franks were liberal Jews, and did not observe all of the customs and traditions of Judaism. Early lifeįrank was born Annelies or Anneliese Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith ( née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. 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 70 languages. He decided to fulfil Anne's greatest wish to become a writer and publish her diary in 1947. Otto, the only survivor of the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his female secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Later research has suggested they died in February or early March. They were originally estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. ![]() On 1 November 1944, Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) a few months later. Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Anne kept a diary she had received as a birthday present, and wrote in it regularly.įollowing their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, they went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked. Anne lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. She spent most of her life in or around Amsterdam. In 1934, when she was four and a half, her family moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.Īnne was born in Frankfurt, Germany. 'the back house' 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. ![]() One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. She is a celebrated diarist who described everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution. Annelies Marie Frank ( German: ( listen), Dutch: ( listen) 12 June 1929 – c. ![]()
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