Anne Frank

Biography

Annelies Marie Frank, born in 1929, was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. She gained fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1942 to 1944. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, Frank's diary became one of the world's most well-known books, published in 1947 and adapted into several plays and films.