Anne Frank

✶June 12, 1929

†February 1, 1945

Netherlands

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in a secret annex in Amsterdam from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.

Jewish girl whose diary, written while hiding from persecution in Amsterdam during the Second World War, became one of the world's most widely read books.

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Anne Frank on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.