Germany.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg)
Anne Frank
said
[...] let the end come, even if it is hard, then at least we’ll know whether we will win out in the end or go under.
— 26 May 1944 (Version A of the diary)
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
- Fame81.3
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#151
Network
In their orbit
People connected to Anne Frank
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09
A teenage girl's diary written while hiding from Nazi persecution became one of the most widely read documents of the Holocaust, translated into over 70 languages and read by millions who would never meet her.
Biography
About
Born in Frankfurt in 1929, Annelies Marie Frank moved with her family to Amsterdam in 1934 after Hitler rose to power. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, the family was trapped; two years later, as Jewish persecution intensified in July 1942, they went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where her father Otto worked. For two years she documented their everyday life in the attic. The Gestapo arrested them on 4 August 1944. Anne and her sister Margot were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in November 1944, where they died of typhus in Februa…
Voice
In their own words
Sourced, dated quotes from Anne Frank
Anne Frank
said
Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through my library of treasures. “Algebra,” Margot said.
— 20th May 1944, Version A of the diary ('either' would be a more accurate word than 'too' in this context).
Anne Frank
saidundated
Het is voor iemand als ik een heel eigenaardige gewaarwording om in een dagboek te schrijven.
— For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that
Anne Frank
saidundated
Ik sus mijn geweten nu maar met de gedachte, dat scheldwoorden beter op papier kunnen staan dan dat moeder ze moet meedragen in haar hart.
— I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
saidundated
Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
— Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Gallery
Photos
12 images · refresh overdue
Where to find them
Platforms
By the numbers
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Stable81.3
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Historical34.0
Now attention22.0
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
Receipts
Sources
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
