Anne Frank
• was a Jewish girl who kept a diary during World War 2, and documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution.
• She is a celebrated diarist who describes everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
• It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.














