A Tribute to Anne Frank
This page was created on June 12, 2026, to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 97th birthday.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family fled to Amsterdam in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, the Frank family went into hiding on July 6, 1942, in a secret annex behind Otto Frank's business.
For over two years, Anne wrote in her diary, recording daily life in hiding, her thoughts, fears, and dreams. She revised her entries after hearing a radio broadcast urging Dutch citizens to preserve wartime diaries.
On August 4, 1944, the hiding place was discovered. Anne and her family were deported to concentration camps. Anne and her sister Margot died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated.
Otto Frank, the only survivor of the eight who hid in the Annex, published Anne's diary in 1947, fulfilling her dream of becoming a writer. The diary has since been translated into more than 70 languages and read by tens of millions of people.
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