Anne Frank

Anne Frank (1929–1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage whose personal writings became one of the most powerful and widely read documents of the Holocaust. Born in Frankfurt, she and her family fled to Amsterdam, where they were forced into hiding for over two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

While in hiding, she chronicled her daily life, fears, and hopes in a diary she named ‘Kitty.’ Published posthumously by her father, Otto Frank, as The Diary of a Young Girl, the book has since been translated into more than 70 languages and has sold tens of millions of copies, serving as an intimate and enduring testament to the human spirit in the face of unimaginable terror.

Anne tragically died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp just weeks before its liberation. Her diary remains a vital historical document and a universal symbol of the devastating human cost of prejudice and persecution.