Anne Frank's Diary chronicles her life in hiding

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.