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{{Short description|Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)}}
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| image         = File:Anne_Frank_passport_photo,_May_1942.jpg
| caption       = Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding
| birth_name    = Annelies Marie Frank
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|6|12}}
| birth_place   = [[Frankfurt]], [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Weimar Republic]]
| death_date    = {{circa|}}February or {{death date and age|1945|03||1929|6|12}}
| death_place   = [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]], [[Nazi Germany]]
| resting_place = Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
| occupation    = Diarist
| language      = {{cslist|Dutch|German}}
| parents       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Otto Frank]] (father)
* [[Edith Frank]] (mother)
}}
| relatives     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Margot Frank]] (sister)
* [[Buddy Elias]] (cousin)
}}
| signature     = Anne Frank signature.svg
| education     = {{cslist|[[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|6th Montessori School]] Amsterdam (1934–1941)|{{ill|lt=Jewish Lyceum|Jewish Lyceum (Amsterdam)|nl|Joods Lyceum (Amsterdam)|v=ib}} |(1941–1942)}}
| genre         = {{cslist|Biography|autobiography}}
| citizenship   = {{Plainlist|
* German (1929–1941)
* [[Statelessness|Stateless]] (1941–1945)
}}
| nationality   = {{Plainlist|
* Dutch (1934–1941) (''[[de facto]]'')
* German (1929–1941)
* [[Statelessness|Stateless]] (1941–1945)
}}
}}
'''Annelies Marie''' "'''Anne'''" '''Frank''' ({{IPA|de|ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk|lang|De-Anne Frank.ogg}}, {{IPA|nl|ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk|lang|nl-Anne Frank.ogg}}, <small>English:</small>{{IPAc-en|æ|n|
f|ɹ|æ|ŋ|k|audio=Anne Frank Pronounce 10.ogg}}; 12 June 1929 – {{circa|}}February or March 1945)<ref name="DeathResearch">Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed. [https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2015/3/31/anne-franks-last-months/ "New research sheds new light on Anne Frank's last months"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424234653/https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2015/3/31/anne-franks-last-months/ |date=24 April 2020 }}. AnneFrank.org, 31 March 2015</ref> was a [[Germany|German]]-born [[Jews|Jewish]] girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] persecution during the [[German occupation of the Netherlands]]. A celebrated [[diarist]], Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an [[Amsterdam]] attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of [[the Holocaust]] with the 1947 publication of ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' (originally {{lang|nl|Het Achterhuis}} in Dutch, {{lit|the back house}}; English: ''The Secret Annex''), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and [[List of films about Anne Frank|films]].

Frank was born in [[Frankfurt]], Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after [[Adolf Hitler]] and the Nazi Party gained control over [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the [[Reichskommissariat Niederlande|German occupation of the Netherlands]]. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became [[statelessness|stateless]]. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a ''[[de facto]]'' Dutch national,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-22 |title=How citizenship eluded Anne Frank? {{!}} Citizenship by Investment Journal |url=https://citizenshipbyinvestment.ch/index.php/2019/11/22/how-citizenship-eluded-anne-frank/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205154045/https://citizenshipbyinvestment.ch/index.php/2019/11/22/how-citizenship-eluded-anne-frank/ |archive-date=5 February 2024 |access-date=2024-02-05 |language=en-US}}</ref> she never officially became a [[Dutch nationality law|Dutch citizen]]. As [[History of the Jews during World War II|persecutions of the Jewish population]] increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in [[Anne Frank House|concealed rooms]] behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, [[Otto Frank]], worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "[[Anne Frank House|secret annex]]". Until the family's arrest by the [[Gestapo]] on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.

Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]]. On 1 November 1944,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Von Benda-Beckmann |first=Bas |title=Na het Achterhuis. Anne Frank en de andere onderduikers in de kampen. |publisher=Querido |year=2020 |isbn=978-9021423920 |location=Amsterdam |page=217}}</ref> Anne Frank and her sister, [[Margot Frank|Margot]], were transferred from [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] to [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]], where they died (presumably of [[typhus]]) a few months later. They were estimated by the [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.

Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after [[World War II]] to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his female secretaries, [[Miep Gies]] and [[Bep Voskuijl]]. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Van der Rol, Verhoeven |title=Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: a Photographic Remembrance. |publisher=Puffin/Viking |year=1995 |isbn=978-0140369267 |location=New York |pages=80, 103}}</ref> It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as ''The Diary of a Young Girl'', and has since been translated into over 70 languages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 October 2018 |title=The publication of the diary |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/diary/publication-diary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428010757/https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/diary/publication-diary/ |archive-date=28 April 2019 |access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:AnneFrank1940 crop.jpg|thumb|upright|Anne Frank at the [[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|6th Montessori School]], 1940]]
[[File: AnneFrank1939Polyfoto.jpg|thumb|upright|Photographs of Anne Frank, 1939]]
Frank was born Annelies{{sfn|Anne Frank Fonds}} or Anneliese{{sfn|Barnouw|Van Der Stroom|2003|pp=3, 17}} Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the [[Maingau Red Cross Clinic]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geschichte |url=https://www.rotkreuzkliniken.de/drk_schwesternschaft_bad_homburg-maingau.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127023342/https://www.rotkreuzkliniken.de/drk_schwesternschaft_bad_homburg-maingau.html |archive-date=27 January 2014 |access-date=20 October 2016 |publisher=Frankfurt Red Cross Clinics}}</ref> in [[Frankfurt]], Germany, to [[Edith Frank|Edith]] ({{née|Holländer}}) and [[Otto Frank|Otto Heinrich Frank]]. She had an older sister, [[Margot Frank|Margot]].{{sfn|Müller|1999|loc=preface: ''Family tree''}} The Franks were [[Reform Judaism|liberal Jews]], and did not practice all of the customs and traditions of Judaism.{{sfn|van der Rol|Verhoeven|1995|p=10}} They lived in an [[Cultural assimilation|assimilated]] community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of various religions. Edith and Otto were devoted parents, who were interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both parents encouraged the children to read.{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=17}}{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|pp=31, 110}} At the time of Anne's birth, the family lived in a house at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-Eckenheim (today Frankfurt-[[Dornbusch (Frankfurt am Main)|Dornbusch]]),{{efn|Dornbusch was created in 1946 out of parts of Eckenheim and Ginnheim.}} where they rented two floors. In 1931, the family moved to Ganghoferstraße 24 in a fashionable liberal area of Frankfurt-Ginnheim, called the ''Dichterviertel'' ("Poets' Quarter") (now also part of [[Dornbusch (Frankfurt am Main)|Dornbusch]]). Both houses still exist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wohnhaus der Familie Frank |url=https://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=3865&_ffmpar%5B_id_inhalt%5D=2461110 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117003451/https://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=3865&_ffmpar%5B_id_inhalt%5D=2461110 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |publisher=City of Frankfurt}}</ref>

In 1933, after [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Nazi Party]] won the [[March 1933 German federal election|federal election]] and Hitler was appointed [[Chancellor of the Reich]], Edith Frank and the children went to stay with Edith's mother Rosa in [[Aachen]]. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt, but after receiving an offer to start a company in Amsterdam, he moved there to organize the business and to arrange accommodation for his family.{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=20–23}} He began working at the [[Opekta|Opekta Works]], a company that sold the fruit extract [[pectin]]. Edith travelled back and forth between Aachen and Amsterdam and found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in the [[Rivierenbuurt (Amsterdam)|Rivierenbuurt]] neighbourhood of Amsterdam, where many more Jewish-German refugees settled.{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|pp=7–12}} In November 1933, Edith followed her husband and a month later Margot moved to Amsterdam.{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|p=7}} Anne stayed with her grandmother until February, when the family reunited in Amsterdam.{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|pp= 24–25, 31}} The Franks were among 300,000 Jews who fled Germany between 1933 and 1939.{{sfn|van der Rol|Verhoeven|1995|p=21}}

After moving to Amsterdam, Anne and Margot Frank were enrolled in school—Margot in public school and Anne in the [[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|6th Montessori School]]. Anne joined the [[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|6th Montessori School]] on 9 April 1934; in 1957, it was posthumously renamed "Anne Frank School".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Frank in kindergarten |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/the-timeline/entire-timeline/#31 |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Anne Frank Website |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|lang=nl|url=https://www.4en5mei.nl/oorlogsmonumenten/zoeken/1461/amsterdam-anne-frankschool|title=Amsterdam, Anne Frankschool|publisher=[[National Committee for 4 and 5 May]]|access-date=2021-07-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|lang=nl|url=https://nha.courant.nu/issue/IJC/1957-05-26/edition/null/page/13|work=[[IJmuider Courant]]|date=1957-05-26|title=Anne Frankschool in Amsterdam|quote=Het Anne Frank-comité dat zich in november 1956 met een oproep tot het Nederlandse volk en tot de gemeentelijke autoriteiten van Amsterdam had gericht met het verzoek het te steunen in zijn streven om tot een blijvende herinnering aan Anne Frank te komen, heeft van Amsterdams wethouder van Onderwijs, mr. A. de Roos, de mededeling ontvangen dat B. en W. besloten hebben de naam van de Montesorrischool in de Niersstraat, waar van Anne Frank zes jaren leerlinge was, te wijzigen in „Anne Frankschool".}}</ref> Despite initial problems with the Dutch language, Margot became a star pupil in Amsterdam. Anne soon felt at home at the [[Montessori method|Montessori school]] and met children of her own age, like [[Hannah Pick-Goslar|Hanneli Goslar]], who would later become one of her best friends.{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|pp=28, 31–33}}

In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company, Pectacon, which was a wholesaler of herbs, [[pickling salt]]s, and [[mixed spices]], used in the production of sausages.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=92}}{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=40}} [[Hermann van Pels]] was employed by Pectacon as an advisor about spices. A Jewish butcher, he had fled [[Osnabrück]] with his family.{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=40}} In 1939, Edith Frank's mother came to live with the Franks and remained with them until her death in January 1942.{{sfn|Müller|1999|pp=128–130}}

In May 1940, Germany [[Battle of the Netherlands|invaded the Netherlands]], and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws; mandatory registration and [[Racial segregation#Jewish segregation|segregation]] soon followed.{{sfn|Müller|1999|pp=128–130}} Otto Frank tried to arrange for the family to emigrate to the United States—the only destination that seemed to him to be viable<ref name="cohennyt">{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Patricia |date=14 February 2007 |title=Letters reveal desperate plight of Anne Frank's family – Europe – International Herald Tribune |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/world/europe/15iht-frank.4597896.html |url-status=live |access-date=20 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121062559/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/world/europe/15iht-frank.4597896.html |archive-date=21 November 2015}}</ref>—but Frank's application for a visa was never processed,<ref>JTA (6 July 2018) [https://forward.com/fast-forward/404860/anne-frank-s-family-were-never-denied-us-visas-study-states/ "Anne Frank's Family Was Not Rejected By U.S. – Their Visa Request Was Never Processed"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726054947/https://forward.com/fast-forward/404860/anne-frank-s-family-were-never-denied-us-visas-study-states/ |date=26 July 2020 }} ''[[The Forward]]''</ref> because the U.S. consulate in [[Rotterdam]] was destroyed in the [[German bombing of Rotterdam|German bombing]] on 14 May 1940, resulting in the loss of all the paperwork there, including the family's visa application.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 July 2018 |title=German Bombs and US Bureaucrats: How Escape Lines from Europe Were Cut Off |url=https://us-holocaust-museum.medium.com/german-bombs-and-us-bureaucrats-how-escape-lines-from-europe-were-cut-off-1b3e14137cc4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001002204/https://us-holocaust-museum.medium.com/german-bombs-and-us-bureaucrats-how-escape-lines-from-europe-were-cut-off-1b3e14137cc4 |archive-date=1 October 2022 |access-date=30 September 2022 |website=www.us-holocaust-museum.medium.com |language=en}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2023}}

After the summer holidays in 1941, Anne learned that she would no longer be allowed to go to the Montessori School, as Jewish children had to attend Jewish schools. From then on Anne, like her sister Margot, went to the {{ill|Jewish Lyceum (Amsterdam)|lt=Jewish Lyceum|nl|Joods Lyceum (Amsterdam)}} ({{lang|nl|Joods Lyceum}}),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Frank |url=https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/anne-frank |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825023109/https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/anne-frank |archive-date=25 August 2021 |access-date=1 September 2021 |website=Anne Frank Fonds}}</ref> an exclusive Jewish secondary school in Amsterdam opened in September 1941.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joodse HBS + Joods Lyceum (secondary Modern School) |url=https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/amsterdam-qr/centrum-oost-de-plantage/joodse-hbs-en-joods-lyceum |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053919/https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/amsterdam-qr/centrum-oost-de-plantage/joodse-hbs-en-joods-lyceum |archive-date=26 December 2021 |access-date=26 December 2021 |website=www.iamsterdam.com |language=en}}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="140">
File:Frankfurt, Klinik Maingau, Ärztehaus.jpg|''1929'': Anne Frank's birthplace, the [[Maingau Red Cross Clinic|Hospital Maingau of the Red Cross]], in 1929 still known as ''[[Vaterländischer Frauenverein|Vaterländisches]] Krankenhaus'' (the hospital of the "Patriotic Women's Association") in [[Frankfurt]]-[[Nordend (Frankfurt am Main)|Nordend]]
File:Anne-frank-geburtshaus-gedenkstele-2011-ffm-027.jpg|''1929-1931'': Stele in front of Anne's home from 1929 to 1931 at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-[[Dornbusch (Frankfurt am Main)|Dornbusch]], where Anne's parents moved from the [[Westend (Frankfurt am Main)|Westend]] with Margot in 1927
File:Frankfurt, Ganghoferstraße 24.jpg|''1931-1933'': Ganghoferstraße 24 in the Poets' Quarter of Frankfurt-Dornbusch, the Franks' residence from 1931 to 1933
File:Pastorplatz 1 - Aachen.JPG|''1933-1934'': Pastorplatz 1 in [[Aachen]], where Anne's maternal grandmother Rosa Holländer (née Stern) lived until 1939. Anne stayed with her from July 1933 to February 1934.
File:Anne Frank- the only existing film images.webm|''1934-1942'': July 22, 1941: the only known occasion Anne was filmed, during the wedding of one of her neighbours. She is seen from 0:09 to 0:13 watching from the Franks' apartment at Merwedeplein 37 in [[Amsterdam]], where they lived from 1934 to 1942
</gallery>

==Period chronicled in Anne's diary==
===Before going into hiding===
[[File:Anne Frank lacht naar de schoolfotograaf.jpg|thumb|upright|Anne Frank in December 1941]]
For her thirteenth birthday on 12 June 1942, Anne received an [[autograph book]],{{sfn|Verhoeven|2019|pp=320 and Diary entry 14 June 1942 A-version}} bound with red-and-white checkered cloth{{sfn|van der Rol|Verhoeven|1995|p=3}} and with a small lock on the front. Frank decided she would use it as a diary,{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=96}} and named it Kitty. She began writing in it almost immediately. In her entry dated 20 June 1942, she lists many of the restrictions placed upon the lives of the [[History of the Jews in the Netherlands|Dutch Jewish]] population.{{sfn|Frank|1995|pp=1–20}}

In mid-1942, the systematic deportation of Jews from the Netherlands started.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margot Frank |url=https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/margot-frank |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729125204/https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/margot-frank |archive-date=29 July 2021 |access-date=14 September 2021 |website=Anne Frank Fonds}}</ref> Otto and Edith Frank planned to go into hiding with the children on 16 July 1942, but when Margot received a call-up notice from the {{lang|de|[[Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung]]}} ([[Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam|Central Office for Jewish Emigration]]) on 5 July, ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp, they were forced to move the plan ten days forward.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=153}} Shortly before going into hiding, Anne gave her friend and next-door neighbor Toosje Kupers a book, a tea set, and a tin of marbles. On 6 July, the Frank family left a note for the Kupers, asking them to take care of their cat Moortje. As the Associated Press reports: "'I'm worried about my marbles, because I'm scared they might fall into the wrong hands,' Kupers said Anne told her. 'Could you keep them for me for a little while?'"<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 February 2014 |title=Marbles that belonged to Anne Frank rediscovered |work=MSN.com |agency=Associated Press |url=http://news.msn.com/world/marbles-that-belonged-to-anne-frank-rediscovered |url-status=dead |access-date=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702170328/http://news.msn.com/world/marbles-that-belonged-to-anne-frank-rediscovered |archive-date=2 July 2014}}</ref>

===Life in the ''Achterhuis''===
[[File:AnneFrankHouse Bookcase.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A three-shelf timber bookcase, filled with books, stands at an angle in front of a doorway to the Secret Annexe|Reconstruction of the bookcase that covered the entrance to the Secret Annex, in the [[Anne Frank House]] in Amsterdam]]

On the morning of Monday, 6 July 1942,{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=163}} the Frank family moved into their hiding place, a three-story space entered from a landing above the Opekta offices on the [[Prinsengracht]], where some of Otto Frank's most trusted employees would be their helpers. This hiding place became known as the ''Achterhuis'' (translated into "Secret Annex" in English editions of the diary). Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly, and Otto left a note that hinted they were going to Switzerland. The need for secrecy forced them to leave behind Anne's cat, Moortje. As Jews were not allowed to use public transport, Otto, Edith, and Anne walked several kilometres from their home. Margot cycled to the Prinsengracht with Miep Gies.{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=105–106}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2018 |title=Miep Gies |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/miep-gies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723232030/https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/miep-gies/ |archive-date=23 July 2021 |access-date=1 September 2021 |website=Anne Frank House}}</ref> The door to the ''Achterhuis'' was later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered.{{sfn|Westra et al.|2004|pp=45, 107–187}}

[[Victor Kugler]], [[Johannes Kleiman]], [[Miep Gies]], and [[Bep Voskuijl]] were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding. Along with Gies' husband [[Jan Gies]] and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, they were the "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. The only connection between the outside world and the occupants of the house, they kept the occupants informed of war news and political developments. They catered to all of their needs, ensured their safety, and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult over time. Frank wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that, if caught, they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews.{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=113–115}}

[[File:AnneFrankHouseAmsterdamtheNetherlands.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A photograph taken from the opposite side of the canal shows two four-story buildings which housed the Opekta offices and behind them, the Secret Annexe|Canal-side façade of the former Opekta building (center-left) on [[Prinsengracht]] canal. The Secret Annex (Achterhuis) is at the rear in an enclosed courtyard.]]
[[File:Anne Frank House Model.JPG|thumb|Model of the former Opekta front building (left) and rear building / Secret Annex (right) where Anne Frank stayed]]

On 13 July 1942, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family, made up of Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by [[Fritz Pfeffer]], a dentist and friend of the family. Frank wrote of her pleasure at having new people to talk to, but tensions quickly developed within the group forced to live in such confined conditions. After sharing her room with Pfeffer, she found him to be insufferable and resented his intrusion,{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=120–121}} and she clashed with Auguste van Pels, whom she regarded as foolish. She regarded Hermann van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer as selfish, particularly regarding the amount of food they consumed.{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=117}} Sometime later, after first dismissing the shy and awkward Peter van Pels, she recognized a kinship with him and the two entered a romance. She received her first kiss from him, but her infatuation with him began to wane as she questioned whether her feelings for him were genuine or resulted from their shared confinement.{{sfn|Westra et al.|2004|p=191}} Anne Frank formed a close bond with each of the helpers, and Otto Frank later recalled that she had anticipated their daily visits with impatient enthusiasm. He observed that Anne's closest friendship was with Bep Voskuijl, "the young typist... the two of them often stood whispering in the corner."{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=119}}

===The young diarist===
In her writing, Frank examined her relationships with the members of her family, and the strong differences in each of their personalities. She was closest emotionally to her father, who later said, "I got on better with Anne than with Margot, who was more attached to her mother. The reason for that may have been that Margot rarely showed her feelings and didn't need as much support because she didn't suffer from mood swings as much as Anne did."{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=203}} The Frank sisters formed a closer relationship than had existed before they went into hiding, although Anne sometimes expressed jealousy towards Margot, particularly when members of the household criticized Anne for lacking Margot's gentle and placid nature. As Anne began to mature, the sisters were able to confide in each other. In her entry of 12 January 1944, Frank wrote, "Margot's much nicer... She's not nearly so catty these days and is becoming a real friend. She no longer thinks of me as a little baby who doesn't count."{{sfn|Frank|1995|p=167}}

[[File:Amsterdam Westerkerk Blick vom Turm 15.jpg|thumb|alt=Taken from the top of the Westerkerk church, this image shows the Prinsengracht canal and the rooftops of the buildings in the neighborhood|Amsterdam from the [[Westerkerk]] w/partial view of the Secret Annex (just up from the dark gray building on near-right corner, just right of block-like square gray roof of 2nd building from corner) with light-tan wall and a single small window]]

Frank frequently wrote of her difficult relationship with her mother, and her ambivalence towards her. On 7 November 1942, she described her "contempt" for her mother and her inability to "confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness," before concluding, "She's not a mother to me."{{sfn|Frank|1995|p=63}} Later, as she revised her diary, Frank felt ashamed of her harsh attitude, writing: "Anne, is it really you who mentioned hate, oh Anne, how could you?"{{sfn|Frank|1995|p=157}} She came to understand that their differences resulted from misunderstandings that were as much her fault as her mother's and saw that she had added unnecessarily to her mother's suffering. With this realization, Frank began to treat her mother with a degree of tolerance and respect.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=204}}

The Frank sisters each hoped to return to school as soon as they were able and continued with their studies while in hiding. Margot took a course 'Elementary Latin' [[correspondence course|by correspondence]] in Bep Voskuijl's name and received high marks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 May 2018 |title=LOI course in Latin |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/anne-frank-collection/4/loi-course-latin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825103903/https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/anne-frank-collection/4/loi-course-latin/ |archive-date=25 August 2021 |access-date=25 August 2021 |website=Anne Frank House}}</ref> Most of Anne's time was spent reading and studying, and she regularly wrote and edited (after March 1944) her diary entries. In addition to providing a narrative of events as they occurred, she wrote about her feelings, beliefs, dreams and ambitions, subjects she felt she could not discuss with anyone. As her confidence in her writing grew, and as she began to mature, she wrote of more abstract subjects such as her belief in God, and how she defined human nature.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=194}}

Frank aspired to become a journalist, writing in her diary on Wednesday, 5 April 1944:
{{blockquote
| I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write&nbsp;..., but it remains to be seen whether I really have talent&nbsp;...

And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that. I can't imagine living like Mother, Mrs. van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!&nbsp;...

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that's a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?{{sfn|Marcuse|2002}}
}}

She continued writing regularly until her last entry on 1 August 1944.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eleftheriou-Smith |first=Loulla-Mae |date=4 August 2014 |title=Anne Frank arrested 70 years ago today: Read her last diary extract |language=en |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/anne-frank-arrested-70-years-ago-today-read-her-last-diary-extract-9646390.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/anne-frank-arrested-70-years-ago-today-read-her-last-diary-extract-9646390.html |archive-date=7 May 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Arrest==
[[File:Hut-AnneFrank-Westerbork.jpg|thumb|alt=Taken from outside the reconstruction of a barracks, the photo shows a [[barbed wire]]fence, and beyond it a grassy area with a small timber hut|A partial reconstruction of the [[barracks]] in the Westerbork transit camp where Anne Frank was housed from August to September 1944]]
[[File:Annelies Frank 12.6.1929 - Anne Frank, National Holocaust Names Memorial, Amsterdam 2023.jpg|thumb|Inscription for Annelies "Anne" Frank at the National Holocaust Names Memorial, Amsterdam, 2023.]]

On the morning of 4 August 1944, the ''Achterhuis'' was stormed by a group of German uniformed police (''[[Ordnungspolizei|Grüne Polizei]]'') led by [[<span class="ltr">SS</span>]]-''[[Oberscharführer]]'' [[Karl Silberbauer]] of the ''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]''.{{sfn|Barnauw|van der Stroom|2003}} The Franks, Van Pelses, and Pfeffer were taken to [[SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt|RSHA]] headquarters, where they were interrogated and held overnight. On 5 August, they were transferred to the Huis van Bewaring (House of Detention), an overcrowded prison on the {{ill|Weteringschans|nl}}. Two days later they were transported to the [[Westerbork transit camp]], through which more than 100,000 Jews, mostly Dutch and German, had passed. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals and sent to the Punishment Barracks for [[hard labor|hard labour]].{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=233}}

Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were arrested and jailed at the penal camp for enemies of the regime at [[Amersfoort]], in the province of Utrecht. Kleiman was released after seven weeks, but Kugler was held in various Dutch concentration and prison camps until the war's end.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=291}} [[Miep Gies]] was questioned and threatened by the Security Police but not detained. [[Bep Voskuijl]] managed to escape with a few documents that would have incriminated their black market contacts. During the following days, the two female secretaries returned to the ''Achterhuis'' and found Anne's papers strewn on the floor. They collected them, as well as several family photograph albums and Gies resolved to return them to Anne after the war. On 7 August 1944, Gies attempted to facilitate the release of the prisoners by confronting Silberbauer and offering him money to intervene, but he refused.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=279}}

===Source of discovery===
In 2015, [[Flemish people|Flemish]] journalist Jeroen De Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, Bep Voskuijl's youngest son, wrote a biography{{efn|name=fn1|''Bep Voskuijl, het zwijgen voorbij: een biografie van de jongste helper van het Achterhuis'', {{ISBN|978-9035143098}} (''Bep Voskuijl, the Silence is Over: A Biography of the Youngest Helper of the Secret Annex'')}} in which they alleged that Bep's younger sister (their aunt) Nelly (1923–2001) could have betrayed the Franks. Nelly was a Nazi collaborator from the age of 19 to 23.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cluskey |first=Peter |date=9 April 2015 |title=Mystery of Anne Frank's informer revealed by Dutch author |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/mystery-of-anne-frank-s-informer-revealed-by-dutch-author-1.2169024 |url-status=live |access-date=8 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713074344/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/mystery-of-anne-frank-s-informer-revealed-by-dutch-author-1.2169024 |archive-date=13 July 2019}}</ref> She had run away to Austria with a Nazi officer, and returned to Amsterdam in 1943 after the relationship ended.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Lebovic |first=Matt |date=1 May 2019 |title='My aunt might have betrayed Anne Frank,' writes son of Secret Annex helper |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/my-aunt-might-have-betrayed-anne-frank-writes-son-of-secret-annex-helper/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511054834/https://www.timesofisrael.com/my-aunt-might-have-betrayed-anne-frank-writes-son-of-secret-annex-helper/ |archive-date=11 May 2021 |access-date=11 May 2021 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref> Nelly had been critical of Bep and their father, Johannes Voskuijl, for helping the Jews;<ref name="NL Times 7-April-2015">{{Cite news |last=Van Jaarsveldt |first=Janene |date=7 April 2015 |title=Sister of Anne Frank helper likely betrayed Frank family: book |work=NL Times |url=http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/04/07/sister-of-anne-frank-helper-likely-betrayed-frank-family-book/ |url-status=dead |access-date=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150408172637/http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/04/07/sister-of-anne-frank-helper-likely-betrayed-frank-family-book/ |archive-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> Johannes was the one who constructed the bookcase covering the entrance to the hiding place and remained as an unofficial watchman of the hideout.<ref name=":0" /> In one of their quarrels, Nelly shouted to them, "Go to your Jews."<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 April 2015 |title=Who betrayed Anne Frank? Biography of Bep Voskuijl has new theory |url=https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2015/04/who-betrayed-anne-frank-biography-of-bep-voskuijl-has-new-theory/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511211940/https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2015/04/who-betrayed-anne-frank-biography-of-bep-voskuijl-has-new-theory/ |archive-date=11 May 2021 |access-date=11 May 2021 |website=DutchNews.nl |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Karl Silberbauer|Karl Josef Silberbauer]], the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] officer who made the arrest, was reported to have said that the informer had "the voice of a young woman".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Papirblat |first=Shlomo |date=8 April 2015 |title=Has Anne Frank's Betrayer Been Found? |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-has-anne-franks-betrayer-been-found-1.5349251 |url-status=live |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053919/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-has-anne-franks-betrayer-been-found-1.5349251 |archive-date=26 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bacchi |first=Umberto |date=9 April 2015 |title=Anne Frank: Book identifies betrayer as helper's sister and Gestapo informer Nelly Voskuijl |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anne-frank-book-identifies-betrayer-helpers-sister-gestapo-informer-nelly-voskuijl-1495662 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053918/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anne-frank-book-identifies-betrayer-helpers-sister-gestapo-informer-nelly-voskuijl-1495662 |archive-date=26 December 2021 |access-date=26 December 2021 |website=International Business Times UK |language=en}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}}

In 2016, the [[Anne Frank House]] published new research pointing to an investigation over ration card fraud, rather than betrayal, as a possible explanation for the raid that led to the arrest of the Franks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 December 2016 |title=Anne Frank may have been discovered by chance, new study says |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38349353 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322214531/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38349353 |archive-date=22 March 2020 |access-date=17 December 2016 |website=[[BBC Online]]}}</ref> The report stated that other activities in the building may have led authorities there, including activities of Otto Frank's company; however, it did not rule out betrayal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Broek |first=Gertjan |date=December 2016 |title=August 4, 1944 |url=http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_18607/cf_21/ENG_Artikel_arrestatie.PDF |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215012139/http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_18607/cf_21/ENG_Artikel_arrestatie.PDF |archive-date=15 December 2017 |access-date=19 December 2016 |publisher=Anne Frank House}}</ref>

A 2018 book suggested [[Ans van Dijk]], a Dutch Jew who betrayed at least 145 fellow Jews to the Gestapo, as a potential candidate for the informant. Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Kremer, who worked as a caretaker at an office building requisitioned by the ''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]'', apparently witnessed Van Dijk visiting the building in August 1944 and overheard her talking with her SD superiors about Prinsengracht, where the Franks were hiding. However, another book examining this possibility noted that many of Van Dijk's victims had lived in or near Prinsengracht.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/25/who-betrayed-anne-frank-book-claims-to-shed-new-light-on-mystery|title=Who betrayed Anne Frank? Book claims to shed new light on mystery|work=The Guardian|date=25 May 2018|access-date=1 November 2023}}</ref>

In January 2022, some investigators{{Who|date=November 2023}} proposed [[Arnold van den Bergh (notary)|Arnold van den Bergh]], a member of Amsterdam's [[Jewish Council]] who died in 1950, as the suspected informant.<ref name="bbc-new-investigation">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60024228 "Anne Frank betrayal suspect identified after 77 years", ''BBC News'', 17 January 2022] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530001813/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60024228 |date=30 May 2022 }}. Retrieved 17 January 2022</ref><ref name="60-minutes-2022-01-16">{{Cite news |last=Wertheim |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Wertheim |date=15 January 2022 |title=Investigating who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis |work=[[60 Minutes]] |publisher=[[CBS News]] |url=http://cbsnews.com/news/anne-frank-betrayal-investigation-60-minutes-2022-01-16/ |access-date=23 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119003751/http://cbsnews.com/news/anne-frank-betrayal-investigation-60-minutes-2022-01-16/ |archive-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> The investigators postulated that Van den Bergh gave up the Franks to save his family. The investigation is chronicled in [[Rosemary Sullivan]]'s English-language book, ''The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Alexandra |date=17 January 2022 |title=A Strong New Lead in 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/books/review-betrayal-anne-frank-investigation-rosemary-sullivan.html |url-status=live |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426053132/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/books/review-betrayal-anne-frank-investigation-rosemary-sullivan.html |archive-date=26 April 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Evidence was also claimed to have been found that Anne Frank's father later knew this but did not reveal it after the war.<ref name="bbc-new-investigation" /> According to the [[BBC]], these investigators "spent six years using modern investigative techniques to crack the 'cold case...'."<ref name="bbc-new-investigation" /> However, according to ''[[The New York Times]]'', several World War II and Holocaust scholars have doubted the methods and conclusions of the investigators, calling the evidence "far too thin".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Siegal |first=Nina |date=18 January 2022 |title=Scholars Doubt New Theory on Anne Frank's Betrayal |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/books/anne-frank-betrayal-arnold-van-den-bergh.html |url-status=live |access-date=19 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419164051/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/books/anne-frank-betrayal-arnold-van-den-bergh.html |archive-date=19 April 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Shortly after the publication of ''The Betrayal of Anne Frank'', after criticism from scholars Bart van der Boom, David Barnouw and Johannes Houwink ten Cate, Dutch publishing house Ambo Anthos, which had published a Dutch translation, apologized via an internal email. The publisher said they should have been more critical and announced that they are "await(ing) the answers from the researchers to the questions that have emerged and are delaying the decision to print another run".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement Anne Frank House, 17 Jan. 2022 |date=17 January 2022 |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2022/1/17/statement-cold-case-investigation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616011753/https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2022/1/17/statement-cold-case-investigation/ |archive-date=16 June 2022 |access-date=31 January 2022}}</ref><ref>[https://nos.nl/index.php/collectie/13878/artikel/2415176-excuses-van-nederlandse-uitgever-voor-boek-over-verraad-van-anne-frank NOS, 31 Jan. 2022] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201093423/https://nos.nl/index.php/collectie/13878/artikel/2415176-excuses-van-nederlandse-uitgever-voor-boek-over-verraad-van-anne-frank |date=1 February 2022 }} (in Dutch)</ref><ref name="dutchpubapol">{{Cite news |date=31 January 2022 |title=Anne Frank's betrayal: Dutch publisher apologises for book |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60204868 |url-status=live |access-date=1 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140453/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60204868 |archive-date=12 May 2022}}</ref> In response, Pieter van Twisk, one of the investigators referenced in the book, said that he was "perplexed by the email" and that the investigators had never claimed to have uncovered the complete truth.<ref name="dutchpubapol" /> In March 2022, a group of World War II experts and historians published their analysis of the conclusions and of the historical sources used in ''The Betrayal of Anne Frank''; they contested the central claim that the Amsterdam Jewish council even had a list of Jewish hiding places that Van den Bergh could draw on, and concluded that the accusation of Van den Bergh was based on weak assumptions and lack of historical knowledge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Researchers Conclude: 'Book About Betrayal of Anne Frank Based on Assumptions and Lack of Historical Knowledge' |url=https://www.niod.nl/en/news/research-report-book-about-betrayal-anne-frank-based-assumptions-and-lack-historical-knowledge |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619004049/https://www.niod.nl/en/news/research-report-book-about-betrayal-anne-frank-based-assumptions-and-lack-historical-knowledge |archive-date=19 June 2022 |access-date=19 June 2022 |website=www.niod.nl |language=en}}</ref> As a result, the Dutch language version of the book was recalled by Ambo Anthos.<ref name="guardian23">{{Cite news |date=23 March 2022 |title=Anne Frank: Dutch publisher recalls book on diarist's betrayal after critical report |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/23/anne-frank-dutch-publisher-recalls-book-on-diarists-betrayal-after-critical-report |url-status=live |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323032314/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/23/anne-frank-dutch-publisher-recalls-book-on-diarists-betrayal-after-critical-report |archive-date=23 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 March 2022 |title=Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60843577 |url-status=live |access-date=25 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325065158/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60843577 |archive-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> 

On 19 August 2022, the Dutch researcher Natasha Gerson published an 80-page report analyzing the annotations and sources in ''The Betrayal of Anne Frank'', which argued that the theory in the book was not only flawed but the product of source fraud.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Geschreven door Redactie |date=18 August 2022 |title=Rapport-Gerson naar Coldcase-onderzoek Anne Frank |url=https://jonet.nl/rapport-gerson-naar-coldcase-onderzoek-anne-frank/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824161339/https://jonet.nl/rapport-gerson-naar-coldcase-onderzoek-anne-frank/ |archive-date=24 August 2022 |access-date=24 August 2022 |publisher=Jonet.nl}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite news |last=Kellerhoff |first=Sven Felix |date=1 January 1970 |title=Streitfall Anne Frank: Vermeintliche Sensation enttarnt – WELT |work=Die Welt |publisher=Welt.de |url=https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article240566579/Streitfall-Anne-Frank-Vermeintliche-Sensation-enttarnt.html |url-status=live |access-date=24 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823190835/https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article240566579/Streitfall-Anne-Frank-Vermeintliche-Sensation-enttarnt.html |archive-date=23 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 August 2022 |title=Onderzoeker haalt uit: 'Coldcaseteam Anne Frank misleid door foute notaris' &#124; Nederlands Dagblad |url=https://www.nd.nl/nieuws/nederland/1137830/onderzoeker-coldcaseteam-anne-frank-misleid-door-foute-notaris |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826041004/https://www.nd.nl/nieuws/nederland/1137830/onderzoeker-coldcaseteam-anne-frank-misleid-door-foute-notaris |archive-date=26 August 2022 |access-date=24 August 2022 |publisher=Nd.nl}}</ref> The report concluded that Otto Frank's recorded agenda, as well as a letter Otto received from helper [[Johannes Kleiman]] and several other statements, were proven to be distorted to suit the outcome in the book. Several negative claims about Van den Bergh had Anton Schepers, a Nazi collaborator who was diagnosed twice as insane and who had taken over Van den Bergh's notary practice, as the only source. This included the claim of Nazi contacts and a commission of 200,000 [[guilders]] paid on the sale of [[Jacques Goudstikker]]'s art business. While ''The Betrayal of Anne Frank'' stated that Van den Bergh enjoyed the protection of two high-up Nazis, the CCT{{clarify|reason=CCT has not been defined|date=November 2023}} and Sullivan had omitted statements that the named Nazis had not known Van den Bergh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Report Claims Book About Jewish Notary Who Betrayed Anne Frank's Family is 'Disgracefully Untrue' |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/new-report-claims-book-about-jewish-notary-who-betrayed-anne-franks-family-is-disgracefully-untrue/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823191706/https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/new-report-claims-book-about-jewish-notary-who-betrayed-anne-franks-family-is-disgracefully-untrue/ |archive-date=23 August 2022 |access-date=24 August 2022}}</ref> Plans to publish a German translation of Sullivan's book, previously postponed, were cancelled soon afterward.<ref name="autogenerated1" />

==Deportation and life in captivity==
On 3 September 1944,{{efn|name=fn2|{{harvnb|Westra et al.|2004|p=196}}, includes a reproduction of part of the transport list showing the names of each of the Frank family.}} the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] and arrived after a three-day journey; on the same train was [[Bloeme Evers-Emden]], an Amsterdam native who had befriended Margot and Anne in the {{ill|Jewish Lyceum (Amsterdam)|lt=Jewish Lyceum|nl|Joods Lyceum (Amsterdam)}} in 1941.{{sfn|Morine|2007}} Bloeme saw Anne, Margot, and their mother regularly in Auschwitz,{{sfn|Bigsby|2006|p=235}} and was interviewed for her remembrances of the Frank women in Auschwitz in the television documentary ''[[Laatste Zeven Maanden van Anne Frank|The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank]]'' (1988) by Dutch filmmaker [[Willy Lindwer]]{{sfn|Enzer|Solotaroff-Enzer|1999|p=176}} and the BBC documentary ''[[Anne Frank Remembered]]'' (1995).{{sfn|Laeredt|1995}}

Upon arrival at Auschwitz, the [[<span class="ltr">SS</span>]] forcibly split the men from the women and children, and Otto Frank was separated from his family. Those deemed able to work were admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labour were immediately killed. Of the 1,019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than 15—were sent directly to the [[Nazi gas chambers|gas chambers]]. Anne Frank, who had turned 15 three months earlier, was one of the youngest people spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival and never learned that the entire group from the ''Achterhuis'' had survived this selection. She reasoned that her father, in his mid-fifties and not particularly robust, had been killed immediately after they were separated.{{sfn|Müller|1999|pp=246–247}}

With the other women and girls not selected for immediate death, Frank was forced to strip naked to be disinfected, had her head shaved, and was [[Identification in Nazi camps|tattooed with an identifying number]] on her arm. By day, the women were used as slave labour and Frank was forced to haul rocks and dig rolls of sod; by night, they were crammed into overcrowded barracks. Some witnesses later testified Frank became withdrawn and tearful when she saw children being led to the gas chambers; others reported that more often she displayed strength and courage. Her gregarious and confident nature allowed her to obtain extra bread [[Rationing|rations]] for her mother, sister, and herself. The disease was rampant; before long, Frank's skin became badly infected by [[scabies]]. The Frank sisters were moved into an infirmary, which was in a state of constant darkness and infested with rats and mice. Edith Frank stopped eating, saving every morsel of food for her daughters and passing her rations to them through a hole she made at the bottom of the infirmary wall.{{sfn|Müller|1999|pp=248–251}}

[[File:Anne frank memorial bergen belsen.jpg|thumb|alt=A Memorial for Margot and Anne Frank shows a Star of David and the full names, birthdates, and year of death of each of the sisters, in white lettering on a large black stone. The stone sits alone in a grassy field, and the ground beneath the stone is covered with floral tributes and photographs of Anne Frank|Memorial for [[Margot Frank|Margot]] and Anne Frank at the former [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] site]]

In October 1944, the Frank women were scheduled to join a transport to the Liebau [[Arbeitslager|labour camp]] in [[Lower Silesia]]. Bloeme Evers-Emden was scheduled to be on this transport, but Anne was prohibited from going because she had developed scabies, and her mother and sister opted to stay with her. Bloeme went on without them.{{sfn|Laeredt|1995}}

On 28 October, selections began for women to be relocated to [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]]. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank, and Auguste van Pels, were transported. Edith Frank was left behind and died of disease, starvation, and exhaustion.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=252}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edith Frank |url=https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/edith-frank-hollaender |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117164031/https://www.annefrank.ch/en/family/edith-frank-hollaender |archive-date=17 November 2020 |access-date=11 August 2021 |website=Anne Frank Fonds}}</ref> Tents were erected at Bergen-Belsen to accommodate the influx of prisoners, and as the population rose, the death toll due to disease increased rapidly.

Anne Frank was briefly reunited with two friends, [[Hanneli Goslar]] and [[Nanette Blitz]], who were also confined in the camp. Blitz had been moved from the Sternlager to the same section of the camp as Frank on 5 December 1944,{{Sfn|Konig|2018|p=60}} while Goslar had been held in the Sternlager since February 1944.{{Sfn|Lindwer|1988|p=24}} Both women survived the war, and later discussed the conversations they had with Frank, Blitz in person{{Sfn|Konig|2018|p=68}} and Goslar through a barbed wire fence.{{Sfn|Lindwer|1988|pp=27–29}} Blitz described Anne as bald, emaciated, and shivering,{{Sfn|Konig|2018|p=68}} remarking: "[The] shock of seeing her in this emaciated state was indescribable." Anne told her that she hoped to write a book based on the diary when the war ended.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neeter |first=Christine |date=2015 |title=Childhood friend recalls last days with Anne Frank |url=https://hamiltonjewishnews.com/home-page/voices/childhood-friend-recalls-last-days-with-anne-frank |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053920/https://hamiltonjewishnews.com/home-page/voices/childhood-friend-recalls-last-days-with-anne-frank |archive-date=26 December 2021 |access-date=26 December 2021 |website=Hamilton Jewish News |language=en-US}}</ref> Goslar noted Auguste van Pels was with Anne and Margot Frank, and was caring for Margot, who was severely ill.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=255}} She also recalled she did not see Margot, as she was too weak to leave her bunk,{{Sfn|Lindwer|1988|p=27}} while Blitz stated she met with both of the Frank sisters.{{Sfn|Konig|2018|p=70}} Anne told Blitz and Goslar she believed her parents were dead, and for that reason she did not wish to live any longer.{{Sfn|Konig|2018|p=70}}{{Sfn|Lindwer|1988|p=27}} Goslar later estimated their meetings had taken place in late January or early February 1945.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=255}}

==Death==
Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945. The specific cause is unknown; however, there is evidence to suggest that she died from a [[typhus]] epidemic that spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners.{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=261}} [[Gena Turgel]], a survivor of Bergen-Belsen, knew Anne at the camp. In 2015, she told the British newspaper ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'': "Her bed was around the corner from me. She was delirious, terrible, burning up." She said she had brought Frank water to wash.<ref name="Neil Genzlinger 2018">Neil Genzlinger, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/obituaries/gena-turgel-holocaust-survivor-with-a-love-story-dies-at-95.html "Gena Turgel, Holocaust Survivor With a Love Story, Dies at 95"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212014221/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/obituaries/gena-turgel-holocaust-survivor-with-a-love-story-dies-at-95.html|date=12 December 2019}}, NY Times, 14 June 2018, at B15.</ref> Turgel, who worked in the camp hospital, said that the epidemic took a terrible toll on the inmates: "The people were dying like flies—in the hundreds. Reports used to come in—500 people who died. Three hundred? We said, 'Thank God, only 300.'"<ref name="Neil Genzlinger 2018" /> Other diseases, including [[typhoid fever]], were rampant.{{sfn|Gedenkstätten Bergen-Belsen}}

Witnesses later testified Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock. Anne died a day after Margot.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lebovic |first=Matt |title=What happened to Anne Frank after the Secret Annex? |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/what-happened-to-anne-frank-after-the-secret-annex/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129054414/https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-happened-to-anne-frank-after-the-secret-annex/ |archive-date=29 November 2020 |access-date=18 November 2020 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Sfn|Lindwer|1988|p=74}} The dates of Margot's and Anne's deaths were not recorded. It was long thought that their deaths occurred only a few weeks before [[British Army during the Second World War|British troops]] liberated the camp on 15 April 1945,{{sfn|Stichting, "Typhus"|p=5}} but research in 2015 indicated that they may have died as early as February.<ref name="yahoo1">{{Cite web |last=Corder |first=Mike |date=31 March 2015 |title=New research says Anne Frank likely died a month earlier |url=https://news.yahoo.com/anne-frank-house-museum-jewish-diarist-likely-died-092357362.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304221615/http://news.yahoo.com/anne-frank-house-museum-jewish-diarist-likely-died-092357362.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=13 April 2015 |publisher=Yahoo News}}</ref> Among other evidence, witnesses recalled that the Franks displayed typhus symptoms by 7 February,<ref name="DeathResearch" /><ref>Park, Madison. [http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/europe/anne-frank-date-of-death/ "Researchers say Anne Frank perished earlier than thought"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228155707/https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/europe/anne-frank-date-of-death/ |date=28 December 2019 }}, CNN, 1 April 2015</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Prins |first1=Erika |last2=Broek |first2=Gertjan |title=One day they simply weren't there any more… |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/downloads/filer_public/08/b3/08b3ff12-d8c1-4964-b9ec-e17a7b035a76/one_day_they_simply_weren.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013220127/https://www.annefrank.org/en/downloads/filer_public/08/b3/08b3ff12-d8c1-4964-b9ec-e17a7b035a76/one_day_they_simply_weren.pdf |archive-date=13 October 2022 |access-date=12 May 2023 |publisher=[[Anne Frank House]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sources for the date of death of Anne and Margot Frank in Bergen-Belsen |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/downloads/filer_public/c3/cb/c3cbb912-e6c6-4004-989c-e9dfb44b9ebc/sources_one_day_2015.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425061220/https://www.annefrank.org/en/downloads/filer_public/c3/cb/c3cbb912-e6c6-4004-989c-e9dfb44b9ebc/sources_one_day_2015.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |publisher=[[Anne Frank House]]}}</ref> and Dutch health authorities reported that most untreated typhus victims died within 12 days of their first symptoms.<ref name="yahoo1" /> Additionally, Hanneli Goslar stated her father, {{ill|Hans Goslar|de}}, died one or two weeks after their first meeting;<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 April 2002 |title=Hannah Pick Goslar (2002) on Anne Frank |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXHe5epevZU |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026182846/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXHe5epevZU&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=26 October 2020 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=February 2023}} Hans died on 25 February 1945.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stolpersteine in Berlin {{!}} Orte & Biografien der Stolpersteine in Berlin |url=https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/en/biografie/7294 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028233521/https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/en/biografie/7294 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website=www.stolpersteine-berlin.de}}</ref> After the war, it was estimated that only 5,000 of the 107,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands between 1942 and 1944 survived. An estimated 30,000 Jews remained in the Netherlands, with many people aided by the [[Dutch underground]]. Approximately two-thirds of this group survived the war.{{sfn|US Holocaust Memorial Museum}}

Otto Frank survived his internment in Auschwitz. After the war ended, he returned to Amsterdam in June 1945 where he was sheltered by Jan and Miep Gies as he attempted to locate his family. He learned of the death of his wife, Edith, during his journey to Amsterdam,<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2018 |title=Otto Frank |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414101747/https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ |archive-date=14 April 2019 |access-date=11 August 2021 |website=Anne Frank House}}</ref> but remained hopeful that his daughters had survived. After several weeks, he discovered Margot and Anne had also died. He attempted to determine the fates of his daughters' friends and learned many had been murdered. [[Sanne Ledermann]], often mentioned in Anne's diary, had been gassed along with her parents; her sister, [[Barbara Ledermann]], a close friend of Margot's, had survived.{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=211–212}} Several of the Frank sisters' school friends had survived, as had the extended families of Otto and Edith Frank, as they had fled Germany during the mid-1930s, with individual family members settling in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.{{sfn|Müller|2013|pp=39, 48–49}}

==''The Diary of a Young Girl''==
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===Publication===
[[File:Het Achterhuis (Diary of Anne Frank) - front cover, first edition.jpg|thumb|upright|{{lang|nl|Het Achterhuis}} (literally, "the rear house"), the first Dutch edition of Anne Frank's diary, published in 1947, later translated into English as ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]'']]

In July 1945, after the sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, who were with Anne and Margot Frank in Bergen-Belsen,<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 September 2019 |title=The final transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2019/9/3/final-transport-westerbork-auschwitz/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729163036/https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2019/9/3/final-transport-westerbork-auschwitz/ |archive-date=29 July 2021 |access-date=29 July 2021 |website=Anne Frank House}}</ref> confirmed the deaths of the Frank sisters, Miep Gies gave Otto Frank Anne's notebooks (including the red-and-white checkered diary) and a bundle of loose notes that she and [[Bep Voskuijl]] had saved in the hope of returning them to Anne. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. In his memoir, he described the painful process of reading the diary, recognizing the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more amusing episodes read aloud by his daughter. He saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone, noting, "For me it was a revelation... I had no idea of the depth of her thoughts and feelings... She had kept all these feelings to herself".{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=216}} Moved by her repeated wish to be an author, he began to consider having it published.{{sfn|Prose|2009|p=74}}

Frank's diary began as a private expression of her thoughts; she wrote several times that she would never allow anyone to read it. She candidly described her life, her family and companions, and their situation, while beginning to recognize her ambition to write fiction for publication. In March 1944, she heard a radio broadcast by [[Gerrit Bolkestein]]—a member of the Dutch [[government in exile]], based in [[London]]—who said that when the war ended, he would create a public record of the Dutch people's oppression under German occupation.{{sfn|Frank|1995|p=242}} He mentioned the publication of letters and diaries, and Frank decided to submit her work when the time came. She began editing her writing, removing some sections and rewriting others, with a view to publication. Her original notebook was supplemented by additional notebooks and loose-leaf sheets of paper. She created pseudonyms for the members of the household and the helpers. The Van Pels family became Hermann, Petronella, and Peter van Daan, and Fritz Pfeffer became Albert Düssell. In this edited version, she addressed each entry to "Kitty," a fictional character in [[Cissy van Marxveldt]]'s {{lang|nl|[[Joop ter Heul]]}} novels that Anne enjoyed reading. Otto Frank used her original diary, known as "version A", and her edited version, known as "version B", to produce the first version for publication. Although he restored the true identities of his own family, he retained all of the other pseudonyms.{{sfn|Prose|2009|p=75}}

Otto Frank gave the diary to the historian [[Annie Romein-Verschoor]], who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She then gave it to her husband [[Jan Romein]], who wrote an article about it, titled {{lang|nl|"Kinderstem"}} ("A Child's Voice"), which was published in the newspaper {{lang|nl|[[Het Parool]]}} on 3 April 1946. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at [[Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg]] put together."{{sfn|Romein}} His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in the Netherlands as {{lang|nl|Het Achterhuis}} (''The Annex'') (literally, "the back house") in 1947,{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=223}} followed by five more printings by 1950.{{sfn|Prose|2009|p=80}}

It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition, published in 1952 under the title ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl|Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl]]'', was positively reviewed. The book was successful in France, Germany, and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan, where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly was identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=225}}

A play by [[Albert Hackett|Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett]] based upon the diary premiered in New York City on 5 October 1955 and later won a [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]. It was followed by the film ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' (1959), which was a critical and commercial success. Biographer [[Melissa Müller]] later wrote that the dramatization had "contributed greatly to the romanticizing, sentimentalizing and universalizing of Anne's story."{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=276}} Over the years the popularity of the diary grew, and in many schools, particularly in the United States, it was included as part of the curriculum, introducing Anne Frank to new generations of readers.{{sfn|Prose|2009|pp=253–254}}

===Reception===
The diary has been praised for its literary merits. Commenting on Anne Frank's writing style, the dramatist [[Meyer Levin]] commended Frank for "sustaining the tension of a well-constructed novel",{{sfn|Levin|1952}} and was so impressed by the quality of her work that he collaborated with Otto Frank on a dramatization of the diary shortly after its publication.{{sfn|Michaelsen|1997}} Levin became obsessed with Anne Frank, which he wrote about in his autobiography ''The Obsession''. The poet [[John Berryman]] called the book a unique depiction, not merely of adolescence but of the "conversion of a child into a person as it is happening in a precise, confident, economical style stunning in its honesty".{{sfn|Berryman|2000|p=78}}

In her introduction to the diary's first American edition, [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] described it as "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read."{{sfn|Rosow|1996|p=156}} [[John F. Kennedy]] discussed Anne Frank in a 1961 speech, and said, "Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank."{{sfn|Westra et al.|2004|p=242}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 September 1961 |title=Kennedy Says Anne Frank's Gift to World Will Survive Her Enemies |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |url=http://www.jta.org/1961/09/22/archive/kennedy-says-anne-franks-gift-to-world-will-survive-her-enemies |url-status=live |access-date=27 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103015759/https://www.jta.org/1961/09/22/archive/kennedy-says-anne-franks-gift-to-world-will-survive-her-enemies |archive-date=3 January 2020}}</ref> In the same year, the Soviet writer [[Ilya Ehrenburg]] wrote of her: "one voice speaks for six million—the voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl."{{sfn|Graver}}

As Anne Frank's stature as both a writer and humanist has grown, she has been discussed specifically as a symbol of [[the Holocaust]] and more broadly as a representative of persecution.{{sfn|Feldman|2005}} [[Hillary Clinton]], in her acceptance speech for an [[Elie Wiesel|Elie Wiesel Humanitarian Award]] in 1994, read from Anne Frank's diary and spoke of her "awakening us to the folly of indifference and the terrible toll it takes on our young," which Clinton related to contemporary events in [[Siege of Sarajevo|Sarajevo]], [[Somali Civil War|Somalia]] and [[Rwandan genocide|Rwanda]].{{sfn|Clinton|1994}} After receiving a humanitarian award from the Anne Frank Foundation in 1994, [[Nelson Mandela]] addressed a crowd in [[Johannesburg]], saying he had read Anne Frank's diary while in prison and "derived much encouragement from it." He likened her struggle against Nazism to his struggle against [[South Africa under apartheid|apartheid]], drawing a parallel between the two philosophies: "Because these beliefs are patently false, and because they were, and will always be, challenged by the likes of Anne Frank, they are bound to fail."{{sfn|Mandela|1994}} Also in 1994, [[Václav Havel]] said "Anne Frank's legacy is very much alive and it can address us fully" about the political and social changes occurring at the time in former Eastern Bloc countries.{{sfn|Westra et al.|2004|p=242}}

[[Primo Levi]] suggested Anne Frank is frequently identified as a single representative of the millions of people who suffered and died as she did because "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live."{{sfn|Westra et al.|2004|p=242}} In her closing message in Müller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies expressed a similar thought, though she attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over. Anne cannot, and should not, stand for the many individuals whom the Nazis robbed of their lives... But her fate helps us grasp the immense loss the world suffered because of the Holocaust."{{sfn|Müller|1999|p=305}}

Otto Frank spent the remainder of his life as custodian of his daughter's legacy, saying, "It's a strange role. In the normal family relationship, it is the child of the famous parent who has the honour and the burden of continuing the task. In my case the role is reversed." He recalled his publisher's explaining why he thought the diary has been so widely read, with the comment, "he said that the diary encompasses so many areas of life that each reader can find something that moves him personally".{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=222–233}} Simon Wiesenthal expressed a similar sentiment when he said that the diary had raised more widespread awareness of the Holocaust than had been achieved during the [[Nuremberg Trials]], because "people identified with this child. This was the impact of the Holocaust, this was a family like my family, like your family and so you could understand this."{{sfn|Stichting, "Simon Wiesenthal"}}

In June 1999, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine published a special edition titled "[[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century]]". Anne Frank was selected as one of the "Heroes & Icons", and the writer, Roger Rosenblatt, described her legacy with the comment,『The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world—the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings.』He notes that while her courage and pragmatism are admired, her ability to analyse herself and the quality of her writing are the key components of her appeal. He writes, "The reason for her immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work seemed a direct result of a ruthlessly honest disposition."{{sfn|Rosenblatt|1999}}

===Denials of authenticity and legal action===
After the diary became widely known in the late 1950s, various allegations against the veracity of the diary and/or its contents appeared, with the earliest published criticisms occurring in Sweden and Norway.{{sfn|Prose|2009|p=241}} In 1957, ''{{lang|sv|Fria ord}}'' ("Free Words"), the magazine of the Swedish [[neofascist]] organization [[National League of Sweden]], published an article by Danish author and critic Harald Nielsen, who had previously written antisemitic articles about the Danish-Jewish author [[Georg Brandes]].{{sfn|Frank|Holmer|2005|p=340}} Among other things, the article claimed that the diary had been written by Meyer Levin.{{sfn|Stichting, "Authenticity of the Diary"}}

In 1958, at a performance of ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' in Vienna, [[Simon Wiesenthal]] was challenged by a group of protesters who asserted that Anne Frank had never existed, and who challenged Wiesenthal to prove her existence by finding the man who had arrested her. Wiesenthal indeed began searching for [[Karl Silberbauer]] and found him in 1963. When interviewed, Silberbauer admitted his role and identified Anne Frank from a photograph as one of the people arrested. Silberbauer provided a full account of events, even recalling emptying a briefcase full of papers onto the floor. His statement corroborated the version of events that had previously been presented by witnesses such as Otto Frank.{{sfn|Lee|2000|pp=241–246}}

In 1959, Otto Frank took legal action in [[Lübeck]] against Lothar Stielau, a school teacher and former [[Hitler Youth]] member who published a school paper that described the diary as "a forgery". The complaint was extended to include Heinrich Buddegerg, who wrote a letter in support of Stielau, which was published in a Lübeck newspaper. The court examined the diary in 1960 and authenticated the handwriting as matching that in letters known to have been written by Anne Frank. They declared the diary to be genuine. Stielau recanted his earlier statement, and Otto Frank did not pursue the case any further.{{sfn|Stichting, "Authenticity of the Diary"}}

In 1976, Otto Frank took action against Heinz Roth of Frankfurt, who published pamphlets stating that the diary was "a forgery". The judge ruled that if Roth were to publish any further statements he would be subjected to a fine of 500,000 German marks and a six-month jail sentence. Roth appealed against the court's decision. He died in 1978, and after a year his appeal was rejected.{{sfn|Stichting, "Authenticity of the Diary"}}

Otto Frank mounted a lawsuit in 1976 against Ernst Römer, who distributed a pamphlet titled "The Diary of Anne Frank, Bestseller, A Lie". When a man named Edgar Geiss distributed the same pamphlet in the courtroom, he too was prosecuted. Römer was fined 1,500 Deutschmarks,{{sfn|Stichting, "Authenticity of the Diary"}} and Geiss was sentenced to six months imprisonment. The sentence of Geiss was reduced on appeal, and the case was eventually dropped following a subsequent appeal because the time limit for filing a libel case had expired.{{sfn|Stichting, "Legal rulings"}}

With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, was willed to the Dutch Institute for War Documentation,{{sfn|Lee|2000|p=233}} which commissioned a forensic study of the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. They examined the handwriting against known examples and found that they matched. They determined that paper, glue, and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written. They concluded that the diary was authentic, and their findings were published in what has become known as the "Critical Edition" of the diary.{{sfn|Prose|2009|pp=247–248}} In 1990, the Hamburg Regional Court confirmed the diary's authenticity.{{sfn|Frank|1989|p=102}}

In 1991, [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]] [[Robert Faurisson]] and [[Siegfried Verbeke]] produced a booklet titled "''The Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach''", in which they revived the allegation that Otto Frank wrote the diary. Purported evidence, as before, included several contradictions in the diary, that the prose style and handwriting were not those of a teenager, and that hiding in the ''Achterhuis'' would have been impossible.{{sfn|Barnouw|Van Der Stroom|2003|pp=93–96}} In 1993, the [[Anne Frank House]] in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel filed a civil lawsuit to prohibit further distribution of Faurisson and Verbeke's booklet in the Netherlands. In 1998, the Amsterdam District Court ruled in favour of the claimants, forbade any further denial of the authenticity of the diary and unsolicited distribution of publications to that effect, and imposed a penalty of 25,000 guilders per infringement.{{sfn|Stichting, "Ten Questions"}}

===Censored sections===
Since the original publication, several sections of Anne's diaries which were initially edited out have been revealed and included in new editions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Waaldijk |first=Berteke |date=July 1993 |title=Reading Anne Frank as a woman |url=https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?showContent=true&id=121826 |url-status=live |journal=Women's Studies International Forum |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=327–335 |doi=10.1016/0277-5395(<span class="ltr">93</span>)90022-2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713024220/https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?showContent=true&id=121826 |archive-date=13 July 2021 |access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref> These contain passages relating to her sexuality, exploration of her genitalia, and her thoughts on menstruation.{{sfn|O'Toole|2013}}<ref name="HistoryExtra">{{Cite web |title=Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/anne-frank-diary-how-edited-hidden-pages-father-otto-what-she-really-wrote/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619055026/https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/anne-frank-diary-how-edited-hidden-pages-father-otto-what-she-really-wrote/ |archive-date=19 June 2020 |access-date=31 July 2020 |website=[[BBC History|HistoryExtra]] |language=en}}</ref> Following the conclusion of an ownership dispute in 2001, new editions have also incorporated pages removed by Otto Frank prior to publication which contain critical remarks about her parents' strained marriage and discuss her difficult relationship with her mother.{{sfn|Blumenthal|1998}}{{sfn|Müller|2013|pp=342–344}} Two additional pages which Anne had pasted over with brown paper were deciphered in 2018, and contained an attempt to explain sex education and a handful of "dirty" jokes.<ref name=HistoryExtra/><ref>{{Cite web |date=15 May 2018 |title=Anne Frank's 'dirty jokes' uncovered |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44133453 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614144610/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44133453 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |access-date=31 July 2020 |website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:AnneFrankMuseumLine.jpg|thumb|People waiting in line in front of the Anne Frank House entrance in Amsterdam]]

On 3 May 1957, a group of Dutch citizens, including Otto Frank, established the Anne Frank Stichting to rescue the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. The Anne Frank House opened on 3 May 1960. It consists of the Opekta warehouse and offices and the ''{{lang|nl|Achterhuis}}'', all unfurnished so that visitors can walk freely through the rooms. Some personal relics of the former occupants remain, such as movie star photographs glued by Anne to a wall, a section of wallpaper on which Otto Frank marked the height of his growing daughters, and a map on the wall where he recorded the advance of the [[Allies of World War II|Allied Forces]], all now protected behind [[Poly(methyl methacrylate)|acrylic glass]]. The House provides information via the internet and offers exhibitions. From the small room which was once home to Peter van Pels, a walkway connects the building to its neighbors, also purchased by the Foundation. These other buildings are used to house the diary, as well as rotating exhibits that chronicle aspects of the Holocaust and more contemporary examinations of racial intolerance around the world.{{sfn|Anne Frank House Annual Report|2005}} One of Amsterdam's main tourist attractions, it received an average of 1.2 million visitors between 2011 and 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Visitors to the Anne Frank Huis in Amsterdam 2020 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/667421/visitor-numbers-to-the-anne-frank-huis-in-amsterdam/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221113227/https://www.statista.com/statistics/667421/visitor-numbers-to-the-anne-frank-huis-in-amsterdam/ |archive-date=21 December 2021 |access-date=21 December 2021 |website=Statista |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Anne Frank M01.JPG|thumb|left|upright|alt=A bronze statue of a smiling Anne Frank, wearing a short dress and standing with her arms behind her back, sits upon a stone [[plinth]] with a [[Commemorative plaque|plaque]] reading "Anne Frank 1929–1945". The statue is in a small square, and behind it is a brick building with two large windows, and a bicycle. The statue stands between the two windows.|Statue of Anne Frank, by [[Mari Andriessen]], outside the [[Westerkerk]] in Amsterdam]]

In 1963, Otto Frank and his second wife, [[Elfriede Geiringer-Markovits]], set up the Anne Frank Fonds as a [[Charitable organization|charitable foundation]], based in [[Basel]], Switzerland. Upon his death, Otto willed the diary's copyright to the Fonds, on the provision that the first 80,000 [[Swiss franc]]s in income each year was to be distributed to his heirs. The Anne Frank Fonds represents the Frank family and administers the rights, ''[[List of Latin phrases (<span class="ltr">I</span>)|inter alia]]'', to the writings of Anne and Otto Frank and the letters of the Frank family. It is the owner of the rights to translations, editions, compilations, and authorised books about Anne Frank and her family. The Fonds educate young people against racism and loaned some of Anne Frank's papers to the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] in Washington for an exhibition in 2003. Its annual report that year outlined its efforts to contribute on a global level, with support for projects in Germany, Israel, India, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.{{sfn|Anne Frank-Fonds Annual Report|2003}}

In 1997, the [[Anne Frank Educational Centre (Frankfurt)|Anne Frank Educational Centre]] (''{{lang|de|Jugendbegegnungsstätte Anne Frank}}'') was opened in the [[Dornbusch (Frankfurt am Main)|Dornbusch]] neighbourhood of Frankfurt, where Frank lived with her family until 1934. The centre is "a place where both young people and adults can learn about the history of National Socialism and discuss its relevance to today."{{sfn|Anne Frank Educational Centre website|2012}}

[[File:Anne Frank Schule Rivierenbuurt.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|Anne Frank School]] in Amsterdam]]
[[File:Annefranktree edit1.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A large tree, devoid of foliage|The [[Anne Frank tree]] in the garden behind the [[Anne Frank House]]]]

The Merwedeplein apartment, where the Frank family lived from 1933 until 1942, remained privately owned until the 2000s. After featuring in a television documentary, the building—in a serious state of disrepair—was purchased by a Dutch housing corporation. Aided by photographs taken by the Frank family and descriptions in letters written by Anne Frank, it was restored to its 1930s appearance. Teresien da Silva of the Anne Frank House and Frank's cousin, Bernhard "Buddy" Elias, contributed to the restoration project. It opened in 2005. Each year, a writer who is unable to write freely in their own country is selected for a year-long tenancy, during which they reside and write in the apartment. The first writer selected was the Algerian novelist and poet El-Mahdi Acherchour.{{sfn|Anne Frank House Annual Report|2005}}

Anne Frank is included as one of the topics in the [[Canon of the Netherlands]], which was prepared by a committee headed by [[Frits van Oostrom]] and presented to the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, [[Maria van der Hoeven]], in 2006. The Canon is a list of fifty topics that aims to provide a chronological summary of Dutch history to be taught in primary schools and the first two years of secondary school in the Netherlands. A revised version, which still includes her as one of the topics, was presented to the Dutch government on 3 October 2007,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Vos |first=Mieke |date=2009 |title=The Return of the Canon: Transforming Dutch History Teaching |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646213 |url-status=live |journal=History Workshop Journal |volume=67 |issue=67 |pages=111–124 |doi=10.1093/hwj/dbn051 |issn=1363-3554 |jstor=40646213 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221113222/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646213 |archive-date=21 December 2021 |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref> and approved in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tyo-Dickerson |first=Kim |date=3 September 2021 |title=#DutchKidLit and The Canon of the Netherlands, Part 1 – Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl |url=https://glli-us.org/2021/09/03/dutchkidlit-and-the-canon-of-the-netherlands-part-1-anne-franks-the-diary-of-a-young-girl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221113223/https://glli-us.org/2021/09/03/dutchkidlit-and-the-canon-of-the-netherlands-part-1-anne-franks-the-diary-of-a-young-girl/ |archive-date=21 December 2021 |access-date=21 December 2021 |website=Global Literature in Libraries Initiative |language=en}}</ref>

In June 2007, "Buddy" Elias donated some 25,000 family documents to the Anne Frank House. Among the artifacts are Frank's family photographs taken in Germany and the Netherlands and the letter Otto Frank sent his mother in 1945, informing her that his wife and daughters had perished in Nazi concentration camps.{{sfn|Max|2007}}

In November 2007, the [[Anne Frank tree]]—by then infected with a fungal disease affecting the tree trunk—was scheduled to be cut down to prevent it from falling on the surrounding buildings. Dutch economist [[Arnold Heertje]] said about the tree: "This is not just any tree. The Anne Frank tree is bound up with the persecution of the Jews."{{sfn|Thomasson|Balmforth|2008}} The Tree Foundation, a group of tree conservationists, started a civil case to stop the felling of the [[Aesculus|horse chestnut]], which received international media attention. A Dutch court ordered city officials and conservationists to explore alternatives and come to a solution.{{sfn|Kreijger|2007}} The parties built a steel construction that was expected to prolong the life of the tree up to 15 years.{{sfn|Thomasson|Balmforth|2008}} However, it was only three years later, on 23 August 2010, that gale-force winds blew down the tree.{{sfn|''Radio Netherlands''|2010}} Eleven saplings from the tree were distributed to museums, schools, parks, and Holocaust remembrance centres through a project led by the Anne Frank Center USA. The first sapling was planted in April 2013 at [[The Children's Museum of Indianapolis]]. Saplings were also sent to a school in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], the scene of a desegregation battle; [[Liberty Park (Manhattan)]], which honours victims of the [[September 11 attacks]]; and other sites in the United States.{{sfn|Engel|2013}} Another horse chestnut tree honouring Frank was planted in 2010 at [[Kelly Ingram Park]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 February 2017 |title=Man wants Anne Frank story shared through national monument |work=[[News & Observer]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article130975789.html |url-status=live |access-date=13 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214105754/http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article130975789.html |archive-date=14 February 2017}}</ref>

Over the years, several [[List of films about Anne Frank|films about Anne Frank]] appeared. Her life and writings have inspired a diverse group of artists and social commentators to make [[Cultural depictions of Anne Frank|reference to her]] in literature, popular music, television, and other media. These include ''The Anne Frank Ballet'' by [[Adam Darius]],{{sfn|Stevens|1989}} first performed in 1959, and the choral works ''[[Annelies (Whitbourn)|Annelies]]'' (2005){{sfn|Chester and Novello}} and ''[[The Beauty That Still Remains]]'' by [[Marcus Paus]] (2015).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bjørhovde |first=Hilde |date=7 May 2015 |title=Musikk uten melodikk er som et språk uten adjektiver |language=Norwegian |trans-title=Music without melody is like a language without adjectives |work=[[Aftenposten]] |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/osloby/byliv/i/85z1/musikk-uten-melodikk-er-som-et-spraak-uten-adjektiver |url-status=live |access-date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726045408/https://www.aftenposten.no/osloby/byliv/i/85z1/musikk-uten-melodikk-er-som-et-spraak-uten-adjektiver |archive-date=26 July 2020}}</ref> The only known footage of the real Anne Frank comes from a 1941 silent film recorded for her newlywed next-door neighbor. She is seen leaning out of a second-floor window in an attempt to better view the bride and groom. The couple, who survived the war, gave the film to the Anne Frank House.{{sfn|Gabbatt|2009}}

In 1999, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Anne Frank among the heroes and icons of the 20th century on their list ''The Most Important People of the Century'', stating: "With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity".{{sfn|Rosenblatt|1999}} [[Philip Roth]] called her the "lost little daughter" of [[Franz Kafka]].{{sfn|McCrum|2010}} [[Madame Tussauds]] wax museum unveiled an exhibit featuring a likeness of Anne Frank in 2012.{{sfn|Ferguson|2012}} Asteroid [[5535 Annefrank]] was named in her honour in 1995, after having been discovered in 1942.<ref name="JPL">{{JPL small body|id=2005535}}</ref>

As of 2018, there are over 270 schools named after Anne Frank worldwide. 100 of them are in [[Germany]], 89 in [[France]], 45 in [[Italy]], 17 in the [[Netherlands]] (among them the [[6th Montessori School Anne Frank|6th Montessori School]] in Amsterdam which Frank herself attended until 1941), 4 in [[Brazil]], 4 in the [[United States]] (among them the [[Anne Frank Inspire Academy]]), 2 in [[Bulgaria]] and one each in [[Argentina]], [[Belgium]], [[Canada]], [[Colombia]], [[El Salvador]], [[Spain]], [[Hungary]], [[Israel]], [[Nepal]], [[Uruguay]] and [[Sweden]].<ref name="anne-frank-schools">{{Cite web |date=2 November 2017 |title=Anne Frank Schools worldwide |url=http://www.annefrank.org/en/Education/Becoming-an-Anne-Frank-School/All-Anne-Frank-School-worldwide/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626155446/http://www.annefrank.org/en/Education/Becoming-an-Anne-Frank-School/All-Anne-Frank-School-worldwide/ |archive-date=26 June 2018 |access-date=15 July 2021 |publisher=[[Anne Frank House]]}}</ref> In 2020, the first of a series of Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorials was placed adjacent to a high school in Maaleh, Adumim, outside of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Klinger |first=Jerry |date=21 May 2021 |title=The Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial |url=https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-anne-frank-childrens-human-rights-memorial/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814144843/https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-anne-frank-childrens-human-rights-memorial/ |archive-date=14 August 2021 |access-date=23 August 2021 |website=The Times of Israel}}</ref> In 2021, the second memorial was unveiled in Antigua, Guatemala,<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 September 2021 |title=New Anne Frank statue in Guatemala features famous quote from her diary |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/new-anne-frank-statue-in-guatemala-features-famous-quote-from-her-diary/article_6978fb75-9ee4-5f54-a5af-dc63e888f11d.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022044223/https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/new-anne-frank-statue-in-guatemala-features-famous-quote-from-her-diary/article_6978fb75-9ee4-5f54-a5af-dc63e888f11d.html |archive-date=22 October 2021 |access-date=22 October 2021 |website=Cleveland Jewish News |language=en}}</ref> and another is in fabrication in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to be opened on [[International Holocaust Remembrance Day]], 27 January 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gaither |first=Lucille |date=8 September 2021 |title=Antigua, Guatemala, Dedicates Anne Frank Statue Amid Noisy Protests |url=https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2021/09/08/antigua-guatemala-dedicates-anne-frank-statue-amid-noisy-protests/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022044231/https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2021/09/08/antigua-guatemala-dedicates-anne-frank-statue-amid-noisy-protests/ |archive-date=22 October 2021 |access-date=22 October 2021 |website=San Diego Jewish World |language=en-US}}</ref>  In 2023, a plan to rename a [[daycare]] centre in [[Tangerhütte]], Germany, named for Anne Frank since 1970, was met with international outcry and eventually dropped.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wessollek |first1=Marlena |title=Tangerhütte: Kita "Anne Frank" in Sachsen-Anhalt wird doch nicht umbenannt |url=https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2023-11/tangerhuette-kita-anne-frank-umbenennung |website=Die Zeit |access-date=7 March 2024 |language=de |date=12 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nach weltweiter Empörung: Kita "Anne Frank" in Tangerhütte behält Namen |url=https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/stendal/stendal/kita-anne-frank-keine-umbenennung-tangerhuette-100.html |website=MDR.DE |date=13 November 2023 |access-date=7 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>

On 25 June 2022, a slideshow [[Google Doodle]] was dedicated in honour of Anne Frank marking the 75th anniversary of the publication of her diary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honoring Anne Frank |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/honoring-anne-frank/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706131733/http://www.google.com/doodles/honoring-anne-frank |archive-date=6 July 2022 |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=[[Google doodle]] |language=en}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="140">
File:Anne_-_1.jpg|Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial in Antigua, Guatemala
File:Anne Frank USA.JPG|Anne Frank Center in New York
File:Anne Frank mural - Anne Frankmuurschildering, Utrecht, 2020 08.jpg|Byron Gómez Chavarría, Mural of Anne Frank with birds and hand prints of children (2017), Anne Frankschool, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2020
File:Anne_Frank_Children's_Human_Rights_Memorial.jpg|Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial designed by Sam Philipe, Jerusalem
File:AnneFrank dHont.jpg|Statue of Anne Frank made by [[Pieter d'Hont]] (1959) in the Janskerkhof, [[Utrecht]]
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[People associated with Anne Frank]]
*''[[Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa]]'' (book)
*[[List of Holocaust diarists]]
*[[List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims]]
*[[Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial]]
*[[Cultural depictions of Anne Frank]]
**[[List of films about Anne Frank]]

==References==
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* {{Cite book |title=The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition |publisher=Doubleday |year=2003 |isbn=0385508476 |editor-last=Barnouw |editor-first=David |location=New York |editor-last2=Van Der Stroom |editor-first2=Gerrold}}
* {{Cite book |last=Berryman |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780252068232 |title=Anne Frank: Reflections on her life and legacy |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0252068232 |editor-last=Enzer |editor-first=Hyman Aaron |location=Urbana |chapter=The Development of Anne Frank |editor-last2=Solotaroff-Enzer |editor-first2=Sandra |url-access=registration |orig-year=1999}}
* {{Cite book |last=Bigsby |first=Christopher |title=Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0521869348 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780252068232 |title=Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0252068232 |editor-last=Enzer |editor-first=Hyman Aaron |location=Urbana |editor-last2=Solotaroff-Enzer |editor-first2=Sandra |url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite book |last=Frank |first=Anne |url=https://archive.org/details/annefrankdiaryof00anne |title=Het Achterhuis |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |others=Massotty, Susan (translation) |year=1995 |isbn=0553296981 |editor-last=Frank |editor-first=Otto H. |editor-link=Otto Frank |language=nl |trans-title=The Diary of a Young Girl&nbsp;– The Definitive Edition |editor-last2=Pressler |editor-first2=Mirjam |orig-year=1947}}; This edition, a new translation, includes material excluded from the earlier edition.
* {{Cite book |last=Frank |first=Anne |title=The Diary of Anne Frank, The Critical Edition |publisher=Doubleday |others=Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation |year=1989 |isbn=978-0385240239 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Anne |title=Anne Franks dagbok : den oavkortade originalutgåvan : anteckningar från gömstället 12 juni 1942&nbsp;– 1 augusti 1944 |last2=Holmer |first2=Per |publisher=Norstedt |year=2005 |isbn=978-9113014029 |location=Stockholm |language=sv |trans-title=Anne Frank's Diary: The Unabridged Original Edition: Notes From the Hiding Place}}
* {{Cite book |last=Konig |first=Nanette |title=Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor, Classmate of Anne Frank |publisher=Amsterdam Publishers |year=2018 |isbn=978-9492371614}}
* {{Cite book |last=Lee |first=Carol Ann |title=The Biography of Anne Frank&nbsp;– Roses from the Earth |publisher=[[Viking Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0708991749 |location=London}}
* {{Cite book |last=Lindwer |first=Willy |title=The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank |publisher=Gooi & Sticht |year=1988 |location=Netherlands}}
* {{Cite book |last=Müller |first=Melissa |title=Das Mädchen Anne Frank |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] |others=Kimber, Rita and Robert (translators) |year=1999 |isbn=978-0747545231 |location=New York |language=de |trans-title=[[Anne Frank: The Biography]] |oclc=42369449 |author-link=Melissa Müller |orig-year=1998}}; With a note from [[Miep Gies]]
* {{Cite book |last=Müller |first=Melissa |title=Anne Frank: The Biography |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |year=2013 |isbn=978-0805087314 |location=New York |language=de |orig-year=1998}}
* {{Cite book |last=Prose |first=Francine |url=https://archive.org/details/annefrankbookth00pros |title=Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2009 |isbn=978-0061430794 |location=New York |author-link=Francine Prose}}
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* {{Cite book |last1=van der Rol |first1=Ruud |url=https://archive.org/details/annefrank00rian |title=Anne Frank&nbsp;– Beyond the Diary&nbsp;– A Photographic Remembrance |last2=Verhoeven |first2=Rian |publisher=Puffin |others=Langham, Tony & Peters, Plym (translation) |year=1995 |isbn=978-0140369267 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite book |last1=van Wijk-Voskuijl |first1=Joop |title=The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal |last2=De Bruyn |first2=Jeroen |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2023 |isbn=978-1982198213 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |last=Verhoeven |first=Rian |title=Anne Frank was niet alleen. Het Merwedeplein 1933–1945 |publisher=Prometheus |year=2019 |isbn=978-9044630411 |location=Amsterdam}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Westra |first1=Hans |title=Inside Anne Frank's House: An Illustrated Journey Through Anne's World |last2=Metselaar |first2=Menno |last3=Van Der Rol |first3=Ruud |last4=Stam |first4=Dineke |publisher=Overlook Duckworth |year=2004 |isbn=978-1585676286 |location=Woodstock |ref={{sfnRef|Westra et al.|2004}}}}
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'''Online'''
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* {{Cite web |date=1 July 2004 |title=2003 Annual Report |url=http://www.annefrank.ch/index.php?page=750 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301083015/http://www.annefrank.ch/index.php?page=750 |archive-date=1 March 2012 |access-date=18 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank Fonds |ref={{sfnRef|Anne Frank-Fonds Annual Report|2003}}}}
* {{Cite web |title=Biography – Anne Frank |url=http://www.annefrank.ch/209.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812072908/http://www.annefrank.ch/209.html |archive-date=12 August 2015 |access-date=19 June 2013 |publisher=Anne Frank Fonds |ref={{sfnRef|Anne Frank Fonds}}}}
* {{Cite web |date=March 2006 |title=Anne Frank House, Annual Report 2005 |url=http://annefrankhuis.nl/upload/downloads/AFreport2005.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216031433/http://annefrankhuis.nl/upload/downloads/AFreport2005.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2008 |access-date=18 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Anne Frank House Annual Report|2005}}}}
* {{Cite web |last1=Barnauw |first1=David |last2=van der Stroom |first2=Gerrold |date=25 April 2003 |title=Who Betrayed Anne Frank? |url=http://www.niod.nl/annefrank/Who%20betrayed%20Anne%20Frank.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331135948/http://www.niod.nl/annefrank/Who%20betrayed%20Anne%20Frank.pdf |archive-date=31 March 2010 |access-date=3 September 2016 |publisher=Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam}}
* {{Cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Ralph |date=10 September 1998 |title=Five precious pages renew wrangling over Anne Frank |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/world/five-precious-pages-renew-wrangling-over-anne-frank.html |url-status=live |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616122437/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/world/five-precious-pages-renew-wrangling-over-anne-frank.html |archive-date=16 June 2012}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Boretz |first=Carrie |date=10 March 1995 |title=Anne Frank's Diary, Unabridged |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/10/nyregion/anne-frank-s-diary-unabridged.html |journal=New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802050017/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/10/nyregion/anne-frank-s-diary-unabridged.html |archive-date=2 August 2013 |access-date=3 May 2013}}
* {{Cite web |title=James Whitbourn: Annelies |url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?tabid=2432&state_3041=2&workid_3041=14649 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417045418/http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?tabid=2432&state_3041=2&workid_3041=14649 |archive-date=17 April 2008 |access-date=6 April 2012 |publisher=Chester and Novello |ref={{sfnRef|Chester and Novello}}}}
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* {{Cite news |last=Engel |first=Pamela |date=23 March 2013 |title=Saplings from Anne Frank's Tree Take Root in US |work=Yahoo! News |agency=Associated Press |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/saplings-anne-franks-tree-take-root-us |url-status=dead |access-date=23 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203031108/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/saplings-anne-franks-tree-take-root-us |archive-date=3 December 2013}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Feldman |first=Ellen |date=February–March 2005 |title=Anne Frank in America |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/anne-frank-america |url-status=live |journal=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |volume=56 |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731002250/http://www.americanheritage.com/content/anne-frank-america |archive-date=31 July 2013 |access-date=19 April 2012}}
* {{Cite news |last=Ferguson |first=Kate Katharina |date=9 March 2012 |title=Madame Tussauds Unveils Anne Frank Wax Figure |work=Der Spiegel |location=Berlin |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,820411,00.html |url-status=live |access-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429205745/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,820411,00.html |archive-date=29 April 2012}}
* {{Cite news |last=Gabbatt |first=Adam |date=2 October 2009 |title=Holocaust Film footage of Anne Frank posted on YouTube |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/02/anne-frank-video-release-youtube |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908050520/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/02/anne-frank-video-release-youtube |archive-date=8 September 2013}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=One Voice Speaks for Six Million: The uses and abuses of Anne Frank's diary |encyclopedia=Yale Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=Yale University Press |url=http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/1914-1948/The_Holocaust/Anne_Frank/Controversies.shtml |access-date=17 April 2012 |last=Graver |first=Lawrence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617000923/http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/1914-1948/The_Holocaust/Anne_Frank/Controversies.shtml |archive-date=17 June 2009 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite web |year=2012 |title=Welcome to the Anne Frank educational centre |url=http://www.jbs-anne-frank.de/english/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002062442/http://www.jbs-anne-frank.de/english/ |archive-date=2 October 2011 |access-date=12 September 2012 |publisher=Jugendbegegnungsstätte Anne Frank |ref={{sfnRef|Anne Frank Educational Centre website|2012}}}}
* {{Cite news |last=Kreijger |first=Gilbert |date=20 November 2007 |title=Dutch court saves Anne Frank tree from the chop |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL20266089 |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903035348/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL20266089 |archive-date=3 September 2010}}
* {{Cite news |last=Laeredt |first=Angela |date=5 May 1995 |title=Anne Frank: After the diary stopped |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/anne-frank-after-the-diary-stopped-1618257.html |url-status=live |access-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825225421/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/anne-frank-after-the-diary-stopped-1618257.html |archive-date=25 August 2017}}
* {{Cite news |last=Levin |first=Meyer |date=15 June 1952 |title=The Child Behind the Secret Door; An Adolescent Girl's Own Story of How She Hid for Two Years During the Nazi Terror |publisher=The New York Times Book Review |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60614FB3A5E107A93C7A8178DD85F468585F9 |url-status=live |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103222228/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60614FB3A5E107A93C7A8178DD85F468585F9 |archive-date=3 November 2012}}
* {{Cite web |last=Mandela |first=Nelson |author-link=Nelson Mandela |date=15 August 1994 |title=Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank exhibition at the Museum Africa |url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1994/sp940815.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203223504/http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1994/sp940815.html |archive-date=3 December 2007 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=African National Congress}}
* {{Cite web |last=Marcuse |first=Harold |date=7 August 2002 |title=Lessons from The Diary of Anne Frank |url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/present/13MarcuseAnneFrank.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041123091108/http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/present/13MarcuseAnneFrank.htm |archive-date=23 November 2004 |access-date=17 April 2012 |website=history.ucsb.edu |publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara}}
* {{Cite news |last=Max |first=Arthur |date=25 June 2007 |title=Anne Frank's Cousin Donates Family Files |newspaper=The Washington Post |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500517.html |url-status=live |access-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111112203/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500517.html |archive-date=11 November 2012}}
* {{Cite news |last=McCrum |first=Robert |date=1 August 2010 |title=Anne Frank: was her diary intended as a work of art? |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/01/anne-frank-diary-robert-mccrum |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316060435/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/01/anne-frank-diary-robert-mccrum |archive-date=16 March 2021}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Michaelsen |first=Jacob B. |date=Spring 1997 |title=Remembering Anne Frank |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A19680329/AONE?u=anon~94ac08e7&sid=googleScholar&xid=8291cb10 |journal=Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought |volume=46 |issue=2}}
* {{Cite web |last=Morine |first=Suzanne |date=1 December 2007 |title=People in Anne Frank's Life |url=http://www.annefrankdiaryreference.org/apeople.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904025806/http://www.annefrankdiaryreference.org/apeople.htm |archive-date=4 September 2011 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank Diary Reference.org}}
* {{Cite web |title=Nothospital |url=http://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/de/geschichte/dp-camp/nothospital.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327113617/http://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/de/geschichte/dp-camp/nothospital.html |archive-date=27 March 2013 |access-date=23 July 2013 |website=Gedenkstätten Bergen-Belsen |publisher=Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten |language=de |ref={{sfnRef|Gedenkstätten Bergen-Belsen}}}}
* {{Cite journal |last=O'Toole |first=Emer |date=2 May 2013 |title=Anne Frank's diary isn't pornographic – it just reveals an uncomfortable truth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/02/anne-franks-diary-pornographic-uncomfortable-truth |url-status=live |journal=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814073630/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/02/anne-franks-diary-pornographic-uncomfortable-truth |archive-date=14 August 2013 |access-date=3 May 2013}}
* {{Cite web |date=23 August 2010 |title=Anne Frank Tree Blown Down |url=http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/bulletin/anne-frank-tree-blown-down |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903184530/http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/bulletin/anne-frank-tree-blown-down |archive-date=3 September 2010 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=Radio Netherlands |ref={{sfnRef|''Radio Netherlands''|2010}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Romein |first=Jan |title=The publication of the diary: reproduction of Jan Romein's ''Het Parool'' article ''Kinderstem'' |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=112&lid=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429082213/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=112&lid=2 |archive-date=29 April 2007 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank Museum}}
* {{Cite magazine |last=Rosenblatt |first=Roger |date=14 June 1999 |title=The Diarist Anne Frank |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991265,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306060051/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991265,00.html |archive-date=6 March 2008}}
* {{Cite news |last=Stevens |first=Mary |date=1 September 1989 |title=2 videos recollect life in World War II |work=Chicago Tribune |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-01/entertainment/8901090690_1_star-rating-rain-man-spanish-subtitles |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808195606/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-01/entertainment/8901090690_1_star-rating-rain-man-spanish-subtitles |archive-date=8 August 2012}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stichting |first=Anne Frank |title=Typhus |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=160&lid=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217034951/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=160&lid=2 |archive-date=17 February 2007 |access-date=17 April 2012 |website=Betrayed |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Stichting, "Typhus"}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stichting |first=Anne Frank |title=Publicity about Anne Frank and her Diary: Ten questions on the authenticity of the diary of Anne Frank |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=790&LID=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005213344/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=790&LID=2 |archive-date=5 October 2007 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Stichting, "Ten Questions"}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stichting |first=Anne Frank |date=20 September 2005 |title=Reaction decease Simon Wiesenthal |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=700&LID=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030093236/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=700&LID=2 |archive-date=30 October 2007 |access-date=17 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Stichting, "Simon Wiesenthal"}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stichting |first=Anne Frank |title=What did Otto Frank do to counter the attacks on the authenticity of the diary? Question 7 on the authenticity of the diary of Anne Frank |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=797&LID=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021114818/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=797&LID=2 |archive-date=21 October 2007 |access-date=18 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Stichting, "Authenticity of the Diary"}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stichting |first=Anne Frank |title=Publicity about Anne Frank and her Diary: Legal rulings |url=http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=387&LID=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013161211/http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=387&LID=2 |archive-date=13 October 2007 |access-date=18 April 2012 |publisher=Anne Frank House |ref={{sfnRef|Stichting, "Legal rulings"}}}}
* {{Cite news |last1=Thomasson |first1=Emma |last2=Balmforth |first2=Richard |date=23 January 2008 |title=Plan agreed to save Anne Frank tree from the axe |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-annefrank-idUSL2338377820080123 |url-status=live |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725215043/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/23/us-dutch-annefrank-idUSL2338377820080123 |archive-date=25 July 2012}}
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'''Further reading'''
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* {{Cite AV media |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9409458.stm |title=Anne Frank's Last Remaining Close Relative, Buddy Elias |date=25 February 2011 |type=Motion picture |publisher=BBC News |access-date=7 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310171501/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9409458.stm |archive-date=10 March 2011 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvtXuO5GzU |title=Anne Frank: The Only Existing Film Images |date=22 July 1941 |type=Motion picture |publisher=[[Anne Frank House]] |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/4hvtXuO5GzU |archive-date=28 October 2021 |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Anne Frank |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Women Encyclopedia]] |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-anne |last=Porat |first=Dina |author-link=Dina Porat |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121228070758/http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-anne |archive-date=28 December 2012 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/5454980/Video-What-Anne-Frank-might-have-looked-like-at-80.html |title=What Anne Frank Might Have Looked Like at 80 |date=5 June 2009 |last=Salter |first=Jessica |type=Motion picture |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/5454980/Video-What-Anne-Frank-might-have-looked-like-at-80.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}{{cbignore}}
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*[http://www.annefrank.org/ Anne Frank House]
*[http://www.annefrank.org.uk/ Anne Frank Trust UK]
*[http://www.annefrank.ch/ Anne Frank Fonds (Foundation)]
*[https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/explore/frank-family-center/ Frank Family Center] at the [[Jewish Museum Frankfurt]]
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/CAICnOLtC0lDLg Online exhibition] about the family history of Anne Frank
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