The Diary of Anne Frank

Everybody knows Anne Frank and her famous diary. This thirteen-year-old girl's diary is probably the best World War II documentation that we can read today. Her diary entries describe the life of hiding from Nazis persecution. The diary survived after being stumbled upon by Miep Gies and gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank.

Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany on the 12th of June, 1929. Her father, Otto Frank is an honest skilled businessman active in the Jewish community. When the Nazi's persecution of Jews is already becoming palpable, Otto Frank moved to Holland to start a business dealing with food products. His family joined him on 1934, around spring in Amsterdam. When Hitler started sending people to concentration camps, the family prepared for hiding. They used the back of his office building which he set up with a little help from his friends.

The family hid for two years in a hidden annex with the Van Daans and Albert Dussel, a dentist. Hiding in the annex meant that they can't go outdoors. They had to deal with enormous tensions that accompany a life of hiding. All these and more were chronicled by Anne. When Anne died (several days following her sister's death) his father printed the diary as a memento for relatives and friends. Now, the diary is printed in over 30 languages around the globe.