Frank, Anne ___ 1929-1945 ___ German ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Anneliese Marie was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but, with her family, moved to Amsterdam in 1933 to avoid persecution. When the Germans occupied the Netherlands, her family hid for two years in a secret annex located in her father's business premises - the business employees helping to provide supplies. During this time, Anne wrote a diary. The family was betrayed to the Germans in 1944, and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne died of typhoid aged only 15. Her sister and mother also died in concentration camps. The diary, which was recovered by one of the employees, was later returned to Anne's father, the only member of the family to have survived. He published it under the title 'Het Achterhuis' ('The Annex') and it was an immediate success. Since then it has been the source for many other published versions and translations, as well as for films and plays. The Amsterdam hiding place is now an Anne Franks museum.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1942-1944 ___ military childhood family self Nazism

WEB TEXT LINKS
a few extracts
about the diary
about the diary

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
The Anne Frank House

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of Anne Frank
 

May 2005, amended May 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.