During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, young Anne Frank wrote entries in her diary while hiding with her family. These entries are collected in the book Anne Frank's Diary.

Anne was raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, although being born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Anne Frank family fled Frankfurt for Amsterdam at the end of 1933 to flee Nazi society after Adolf Hitler took office in January 1933. She lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became a stateless person. When Anne was 13 years old, they began living away from poisonous rooms in July 1942. Anne's family was located and sent to a concentration camp in the Duc Quoc commune after two years, as instructed. Only a few weeks before Bergen-Belsen was liberated in April 1945, Anne and her sister Margot Frank, both 15 years old at the time, perished there in February or March 1945.

The only survivor of the group who returns to Amsterdam after the war and discovers his daughter's journal recorded by Miep Gies is Otto Frank, the father of Anne. He decided to publish the journal in Dutch as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944 in 1947. The diary's English translation, Diary of a Young Girl, was published in 1952 and was eventually translated into more than 60 other languages. The Diary of Anne Frank was added to the Memory of the World List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the "10 most read novels globally," according to UNESCO.

The second child of Otto Frank (1889-1980) and Edith Frank-Holländer (1900-1945), Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Aunt Margot (1926–1945) was Anne's. Otto, Anne's father, was a German industrialist who fought for Germany in World War One. The children grew up with friends who were Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. Not all Jewish educational resources and taverns are maintained by the Frank family. Otto Frank, a German Army decorated World War I commander who lacked a greater interest in academia and built a sizable family library, was the mother of Edith Frank, a devout woman. They both promote reading.

Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won the Frankfurt city council elections on March 13, 1933. The Frank family was immediately the target of anti-Semitic demonstrations, which made them fear for their safety if they remained in Germany. To be closer to the Belgian-Dutch border, Edith brought the kids to be with her mother, Rosa Holländer, in Aachen. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt until he was allowed to launch a business in Amsterdam, at which point he structured his workload and made plans for his family's relocation.

Otto Frank is employed by Opekta. When Edith and her kids visited Amsterdam in February 1934, both of the girls were accepted—Margot to a regular school and Anne to a Montessori institution. Otto Frank founded a new business, Pectacon, in 1938 to offer herbs, pickling salts, and spices used in sausage-related items. Hermann van Pels is employed at Pectacon as a condiment consultant. Edith's mother moved in with the Franks in 1939 and stayed there until her passing in January 1942.

One of the interesting facts about Anne Frank, Diary of Anne Frank has been adapted into a movie, TV series, play, musical (opera), and comic book.

The first performance of a musical version of Anne Frank's diary took place in 2008. Starting on February 28, a Spanish musical version of this will be performed at Madrid's Haagen-Dazs Calderon theater. Mr. Rafael Alvero is the musical's director. Previously, the plan to create a musical based on Rafael Alvero's Diary of Anne Frank was challenged by Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's cousin and sole living relative, and president of the Anne Frank Heritage Foundation in Switzerland. "The Holocaust is not an appropriate subject for musical adaptation," he claimed. Meanwhile, Rafael Alvero's plan to present the musical is supported by the Anne Frank Foundation, which also manages the Anne museum in Amsterdam.

The first comic book adaptation of Anne Frank's diary was published in 2010 under the title "Anne Frank: The Graphic Biography" (source says "The life of Anne Frank, the graphic biography") performed by Ernie Colon and Sid Jacobson, two Americans (artists). English, German, Italian, Spanish, and French are the five languages into which the work has been translated since it was initially published in the Netherlands in July 2010.

A typhus outbreak that swept the camp in the early months of 1945 claimed 17,000 lives of inmates. There were other more illnesses, including typhoid fever. There was indications that Anne died from the pandemic, but it was impossible to pinpoint the precise cause of her death because of the tumultuous circumstances. An inmate at Bergen Belsen named Gena Turgel knew Anne Frank there. She was crazy, horrible, and burning up when she was on Turgel's bed, the British tabloid The Sun said in 2015. Turgel also stated that she had brought Frank water to bathe. The typhus outbreak at the camp, according to Turgel, who worked in the camp hospital, had a catastrophic impact on the inmates: "The people were dying like flies—in the hundreds. Reports used to come in—500 people who died. Three hundred? We said, 'Thank God, only 300.'"

Later, witnesses stated that Margot was frail when she fell off her bunk and was killed by the shock. Margot passed away a day after Anne. It is unknown exactly when Margot and Anne passed away. Long believed to have passed away within a few weeks prior to the camp's liberation by British troops on April 15, 1945. Studies conducted in 2015 suggested they may have passed away as early as February. Witnesses testified that the Franks had typhus symptoms by 7 February, and Dutch health officials noted that the majority of untreated typhus sufferers perished within 12 days after the onset of their initial symptoms.

The Anne Frank Stichting was founded on May 3, 1957, by a group of Dutch individuals, including Otto Frank, in an effort to save the Prinsengracht building from demolition and make it open to the general public. The Anne Frank House is a museum and writer's residence honoring Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank.

In the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, the building is situated along the Prinsengracht, not far from the Westerkerk. On May 3, 1960, The Anne Frank House officially opened. It comprises of the warehouse and offices of Opekta as well as the Achterhuis, all of which are vacant so that guests can freely move around the spaces. Some of the former residents' personal items still exist, including movie star photos that Anne had stuck to the wall, wallpaper where Otto Frank had noted the heights of his daughters as they grew, and a map on the wall where he had noted the advance of the Allied Forces, all of which are now shielded by acrylic glass. The House hosts exhibitions and gives online information. A walkway connects the building to its neighbors, who were also bought by the Foundation, from the little room where Peter van Pels originally resided.

The diary is kept in these additional buildings, along with revolving exhibitions that detail various elements of the Holocaust and more recent studies of racial prejudice around the world. It attracted an average of 1.2 million tourists annually between 2011 and 2020, making it one of the top tourist destinations in Amsterdam.

You may not know, one of the interesting facts about Anne Frank, she shortlisted The Most Important People of the Century.

On their list of the Most Important People of the Century published in 1999, Time included Anne Frank as one of the heroes and symbols of the 20th century, noting that "with a diary preserved in a secret attic, she faced the Nazis and contributed a fiery voice to the battle for human dignity." She was referred to by Philip Roth as Franz Kafka's "lost little daughter." A display with an image of Anne Frank was displayed by the Madame Tussauds wax museum in 2012. After being found in 1942, asteroid 5535 Annefrank was given her name in 1995.

Over 270 schools have been named after Anne Frank as of 2018. One each in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Hungary, Israel, Nepal, Uruguay, and Sweden. There are 100 of them in Germany, 89 in France, 45 in Italy, 17 in the Netherlands (including the 6th Montessori School in Amsterdam, which Frank herself attended until 1941), 4 in Brazil, 4 in the United States (including the Anne Frank Inspire Academy), 2 in Bulgaria, and 100 in Germany. Of Maaleh, Adumim, a suburb of Jerusalem, the first in a series of Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorials was erected next to a high school in 2020. The second memorial was unveiled in Antigua, Guatemala, in 2021, and a third is being constructed in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and will be presented on January 27, 2022, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In many ways, the red-and-white striped signature book has come to represent Anne's journal. Many readers may believe that this one notebook contains all of Anne's journal entries because of this, which is possible. Although Anne started using the red-and-white striped notebook on June 12, 1942, she had finished writing in it by the time she wrote her entry on December 5, 1942.

Anne wrote a lot, therefore she needed many notebooks to keep all of her journal entries. Two other notebooks have been discovered in addition to the red and white checkered notebook. Anne's journal entries from December 22, 1943, to April 17, 1944, were found in the first of these items, an exercise book. The second was an additional workbook that covered the time period from April 17, 1944, until just before her arrest. The notebook that must have included Anne's journal entries for the most of 1943 is missing, as can be seen by paying close attention to the dates.

But don't panic and assume that you missed the one-year gap in diary entries in your copy of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl. These were utilized to replace the missing original diary notebook since Anne's rewrites during this time period had been discovered. It's not clear when or how this second notebook disappeared. We have no proof that the notebook was lost before or after Anne's imprisonment, but one may be relatively certain that she had it with her when she wrote her rewrites in the summer of 1944.

As her stay in the Secret Annex became longer, Anne Frank's disposition changed from being a cheerful, lively, chatty, perky, amusing girl to being gloomy, self-critical, and depressed. The same person who could express her thoughts of utter anguish in such lovely prose while writing about birthday poetry, girlfriends, and royal genealogical charts.

Anne wrote on October 29, 1943: "Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage."

Anne had started to feel down. On September 16, 1943, Anne acknowledged that she had begun using valerian drops for her despair and anxiety. Anne was still gloomy and had lost her appetite the next month. Brewer's yeast, dextrose, cod liver oil, and calcium have been "plied" on Anne, according to her relatives. The only way to truly alleviate Anne's despair was to set her free from her imprisonment, but this was an unattainable remedy.

There's more about Anne Frank that you don't know than you think. Anne Frank’s full name was Annelies Marie Frank. Anne Frank used pseudonyms for the persons she wrote about in her diary as she prepared it for ultimate publication. Do you know what pseudonym Anne picked for herself, even if you are familiar with the pseudonyms of Albert Dussel (the real Freidrich Pfeffer) and Petronella van Daan (the real Auguste van Pels) because these pseudonyms appear in most published editions of the diary?

Otto Frank made the decision to use his family's true identities instead of the pseudonyms Anne had established for the other four persons sheltering in the Annex when it came time to publish the diary after the war. Because of this, we are more familiar with Anne Frank by her given name than her initial alias, Anne Aulis, or her given name, Anne Robin (the name Anne later chose for herself). For Margot Frank, Otto Frank, and Edith Frank, Anne adopted the aliases Betty Robin, Frederik Robin, and Nora Robin, respectively.

The red-and-white-checkered notebook, an autograph album that Anne had gotten for her 13th birthday, was the first thing she thought to use as a journal. I hope I will be able to trust everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anybody, and I hope you will be a tremendous source of comfort and support, she wrote in her very first entry on June 12, 1942.

From the start, Anne wrote her journal with the intention of keeping it private and hoped no one else would see it. On March 28, 1944, as Anne was listening to the radio, Dutch Cabinet Minister Gerrit Bolkestein gave a speech that caused this to alter. To quote Bolkestein: "History cannot be written based on official decisions and documents alone. If our descendants are to understand fully what we as a nation have had to endure and overcome during these years, then what we need are ordinary documents -- a diary, letters from a worker in Germany, a collection of sermons given by a person or priest. Not until we succeed in bringing together vast quantities of this simple, everyday material will the picture of our struggle for freedom be painted in its full depth and glory."

After the war, Anne was motivated to get her diary published and she started rewriting it all on loose sheets of paper. She also clarified certain instances, uniformly addressed Kitty in every entry, and made a list of pseudonyms while shortening some and prolonging others. Despite coming so close to finishing this enormous effort, Anne sadly ran out of time before being taken into custody on August 4, 1944. On March 29, 1944, Anne revised her final item in the journal.