Anne Frank 1941
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Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave 
them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, 
retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the 
Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen 
only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and 
through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic 
expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.

Photographer Unknown

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"Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) was a 
Jewish German girl who was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, and who 
lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. She gained international 
fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding 
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were 
trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the 
Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her 
father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to 
concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen 
concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the 
only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been 
saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch 
and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.

The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 
until 1 August 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's 
most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been 
acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the most renowned and most 
discussed victims of the Holocaust.