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Anne Frank

Who

Anne Frank · Arts & Literature

What

German-Dutch diarist whose 'The Diary of a Young Girl', written in hiding during the Holocaust, became one of the world's most-read books.

When

1929, Frankfurt, Germany — 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany

Where

Germany · Netherlands

Biography

Anne Frank is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — German-Dutch diarist whose 'The Diary of a Young Girl', written in hiding during the Holocaust, became one of the world's most-read books.

How & why

Anne Frank was a German-Dutch girl whose diary, kept while her family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam, became one of the world's most-read books and the most intimate testimony of the Holocaust. She was Jewish; her family fled Germany for the Netherlands, and she died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen at fifteen after the family's arrest.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

Contributions & Sources

German-Dutch diarist whose 'The Diary of a Young Girl', written in hiding during the Holocaust, became one of the world's most-read books.

1947

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank