Anne Frank
Writing
June 12, 1929
Died at age 15
March 12, 1945
Date of Death
Frankfurt, Germany
4 Credits
Biography
Annelies Marie Frank (1929–1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. 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, 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.
