Anne received the diary for which she became famous on 12 June 1942, and began writing in it on 14 June. It was actually a red checked autograph book for which she decided would be used as a journal. Later, she switched to two notebooks after the autograph book was full, finally resorting to about 360 pages of paper.
Anne rewrote her diary in 1944 after hearing a call on the radio for people to save their war-time diaries in order to help document the suffering of the Nazi occupation once war was over.
Anne’s full name was Annelies Marie Frank. She was born on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to parents Otto and Edith. She had an older sister Margot.
The Frank family went into hiding after Margot was summoned to a work camp in 1942. They spent two years hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices, on P rinsengraacht 263, in Amsterdam. It was the same annex that was featured on the Israeli first day cover cachet and stamp (shown here).
The Franks were soon joined by Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter (the boy Anne was to fall in love with), and Fritz Pfeffer, a German dentist.
The residents of the annex were arrested on 4 August 1944, after spending two years and 35 days in hiding. It has been thought that someone called the German Security Police but the identity of this caller has never been confirmed. A new theory suggests that the Nazis may in fact have discovered the annex by accident while investigating reports of fraud and illegal employment.
The residents of the annex were first taken to Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, followed by the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. At this point the men and women were separated – Anne staying with her mother and sister. A few months later the two girls were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Both Anne and Margot are believed to have contracted typhus and died around the same time, just a few weeks before the camp was liberated. Only their father Otto survived, and subsequently had her diaries published in 1947.
Anne rewrote her diary in 1944 after hearing a call on the radio for people to save their war-time diaries in order to help document the suffering of the Nazi occupation once war was over.
Anne’s full name was Annelies Marie Frank. She was born on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to parents Otto and Edith. She had an older sister Margot.
The Frank family went into hiding after Margot was summoned to a work camp in 1942. They spent two years hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices, on P rinsengraacht 263, in Amsterdam. It was the same annex that was featured on the Israeli first day cover cachet and stamp (shown here).
The Franks were soon joined by Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter (the boy Anne was to fall in love with), and Fritz Pfeffer, a German dentist.
The residents of the annex were arrested on 4 August 1944, after spending two years and 35 days in hiding. It has been thought that someone called the German Security Police but the identity of this caller has never been confirmed. A new theory suggests that the Nazis may in fact have discovered the annex by accident while investigating reports of fraud and illegal employment.
The residents of the annex were first taken to Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, followed by the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. At this point the men and women were separated – Anne staying with her mother and sister. A few months later the two girls were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Both Anne and Margot are believed to have contracted typhus and died around the same time, just a few weeks before the camp was liberated. Only their father Otto survived, and subsequently had her diaries published in 1947.
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