Anne Frank

She was born on 12th June 1929 (Frankfurt). Of a jewish: her parents Otto Frank and Edith and her sister Margot, three years older than Anne.
Anne became worldwide famous, thanks to the diary which she wrote during the time that she was hidden.

Anne had the bad luck of being born when the economic crisis and the increasing anti-semitic felling began and when Hitler appeared. That put an end to the calm life of the family; so her parents decided to leave Germany and go to Amsterdam. There, Anne and Margot went to school, Otto set up a business where he worked hard and his wife took charge of the house.
However, the threat of war in Europe increased. On 1st september 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This was the beginning of the Second World War.

On 10th May 1940, the German troops invaded the country. Five days later, the Netherlands surrended themselves and the country was occupied by the Germans. After this, the Germans imposed anti-Jewish regulatons: Jewish presence, was prohibited in some places, Anne and Margot had to go to a school only for Jews and Otto wasn't allowed to manage his company (he did it, in secret); and they decided to hide in the back-room of Otto's bussines together with other four people where they were helped by some of Otto's employees.
They provided food, clothes, books and contact with the exterior of the world to them.

After hiding, Anne got a diary for her birthday where she wrote about her life while  they were hidden, and to which, she showed her fellings and deeper thoughts as if it was her best friend.While she wrote it, she was thinking to turn it into a novel.

On 4th August, 1944, the hiddens were arrested and later deported to Auschwitz. There they separated the families, men of women. 
Edith died and later, both daughters, Anne and Margot, in the concentrationn camp of Bergen-Belsen, because there were a lot of illnesses and a bad hygiene.

Otto Frank is the only one of the eight hiddens that survived. 
Anne's diary was kept by the family friend, Miep Gies, who gave it to Otto when he returned to Holland. When Anne was still alive she had expressed interest in having her diary published as a record of her experience. After her death, her father edited it and it was first published in 1947.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is an exceptionally popular an well-known piece of writing. It has been translated into 67 languages and is especially popular with young people.