Anne Frank

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Aliases:
Āṉ Phrāṅk, Anna Frank, Anni Fulanke, and 21 others Ana Frank, Anne Furanku, Ena Phreṃkako, Анна Франк, Ayān Phrāṅkera, Annuo Fulanke, En Phrāṅkara, ʾAnnah Franq, 安妮 弗兰克, Annelies Maria Frank, Anna Franka, Enn Frengk, Anne Frank, Anne Huraengkŭ, Annei Frank, Anne Pŭrangkŭ, ʾAnnah Fěranq, Ana Pr̕anki, Anna Franková, Anne Franková, Anni Falanke
Born:
June 12, 1929
Died:
Feb. 6, 1945

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German pronunciation: [ˈanəˌliːs maˈʁiː ˈʔanə ˈfʁaŋk] (listen), Dutch: [ˈɑnəˌlis maːˈri ˈʔɑnə ˈfrɑŋk]; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of four and a half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the Franks went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's …

Books by Anne Frank