Anne Frank

12 June 1929 – February or March 1945 · diarist · wrote in Dutch, in hiding in Amsterdam

Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt on 12 June 1929 and moved with her family to Amsterdam in 1934. From July 1942 the Franks hid in a concealed annexe behind a bookcase in the building where her father Otto worked, and she kept a diary there for just over two years. She wrote this sentence on 6 June 1944, six days before her fifteenth birthday. The family were arrested by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944; Anne and her sister Margot were moved from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen that November, and she died there in February or March 1945. Her father was the only one of the eight to survive, and he published the diary in 1947.

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