2. About the Author

Anneliese Marie ‘ Anne ’ Frank ( 12 June 1929 – February/ March 1945) was a German born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into the Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in retired apartments in her father Otto Frank’s office structure. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration camp system where Anne died of typhus in Bergen- Belsen within days of her sister, Margot Frank. Anne's writings that was saved in her diary were later published by her father in English under the name, The Diary of a Young Girl.