Anne Frank

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945) · Germany · Writers · Died at 16 · also Netherlands

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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.

Writers Writer / Author Literature 20th Century

A life in dates

1955Bancarella Selection PrizeAward1945Died1944“Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through my library of treasures. “Algebra,” Margot said.”In their words20th May 1944, Version A of the diary ('either' would be a more accurate word than 'too' in this context).Read the whole statement

“[...] 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.”In their words26 May 1944 (Version A of the diary)Read the whole statement

1929Born12 June 1929

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Frank at the 6th Montessori School (1940)

Frank in December 1941

In their own words 8

Anne Frank

8 statements, newest first

Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through my library of treasures. “Algebra,” Margot said.
1944, 20th May 1944, Version A of the diary ('either' would be a more accurate word than 'too' in this context)., Own words
[...] 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.
1944, 26 May 1944 (Version A of the diary), Own words
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, Own words

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Bancarella Selection Prize1955

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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 February or March 1945. Otto, the family's sole survivor, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that his secretaries had saved Anne's diary; moved by her repeated wishes to be an author, he published it in 1947.

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