FRANK, ANNE


Meaning of FRANK, ANNE in English

born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.

died March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover

German diarist.

Frank was a young Jewish girl who kept a record of the two years her family spent in hiding in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. After their discovery by the Gestapo in 1944, the family was transported to concentration camps; Anne died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. Friends searching the hiding place found her diary, which her father published as The Diary of a Young Girl (1947). Precocious in style and insight, it traces her emotional growth amid adversity and is a classic of war literature.

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