She was taken with her family to Amsterdam from her native Frankfurt on Main, Germany, after the Nazis seized power in 1933. After Holland was invaded in 1940 her father prepared for the eventuality of hiding and in July 1942 the family and a few friends moved into the attic of the vacant annex of her father's business premises where they were hidden by four of her father's employees. For the next two years they remained in the attic and Anne kept a diary of their life. In Aug. 1944, after being tipped off, the Germans arrested them all and send them to death camps. Anne and her sister were sent to Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp where they died of typhus in March 1945. Her diary was discovered by one of those who had hidden them and given to her father who survived the war. First published in 1947, it became a recognized world classic translated into numerous languages. The house in which they hid, known as the Anne Frank House, became a center of pilgrimage for visitors from all parts of the world and houses the Anne Frank Foundation established to fight anti-Semitism and racism.

Bibliography

FRANK, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Edited by Otto H. Frank & Mirjam Pressler; translated by Susan Massotty. The definitive ed. 1st ed. in U.S.A. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

FRANK, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation; compiled by H. J. J. Hardy; edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom; translated by Arnold Pomerans and B. M. Mooyaart. The critical ed. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Links

The official website of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

The Anne Frank Internet Guide

Anne Frank Center USA website

Anne Frank Zentrum, Berlin

Anne Frank Trust UK