History and Archaeology
The Diary of Anne Frank: A Voice of Hope Amid the Holocaust
The moving story of a Jewish teenager whose words from a secret attic captured the courage, fear, and faith of a generation
Anne Frank (Photo: shutterstock)Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. When the war reached the Netherlands, she went into hiding together with her family.
Anne Frank became famous for the diary she wrote while in hiding — beginning at the age of just 13, over the course of more than two years. Friends of the family found the diary after the family was arrested, and a few years after the war it was published. Since then, it has been released in dozens of editions and translated into many languages around the world.
In her diary, Anne described her experiences and emotions during those difficult years, as well as her family’s daily struggles to survive under Nazi occupation.
On August 1, 1944, Anne wrote the final entry in her diary. Three days later, German police discovered the hiding place and arrested all the members of the Frank family. Anne was eventually deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she perished and never returned.
