Anne Frank Biography

Anne Frank Biography

 Anne Frank was a German-born 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 of several plays and films.

 Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. She was the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Hollander. Her father was a successful businessman and her mother was a homemaker.

 In 1933, the Frank family, who were Jews, fled from Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to escape persecution under the Nazi regime. In 1940, after the German occupation of the Netherlands, the Franks went into hiding in an attic apartment in Amsterdam.

 While in hiding, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she documented her thoughts and experiences. In the diary, she wrote about her hopes, fears, and observations of life in hiding, as well as her dreams for the future.

 In 1944, the Frank family was discovered and arrested by the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in 1945.

 Anne Frank's diary was recovered after the war and was published in 1947. It has since been translated into dozens of languages and is one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.