Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12 1929 – c. March 1945) was a German Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her sister, Margot, in March 1945. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, to find that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was a unique record he took action to have it published.

Further reading

• Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, translated by B. M. Mooyaart, Bantam, mass market paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 0553296981
• The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, Anne Frank, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, compiled by H. J. J. Hardy, second edition, Doubleday 2003, hardcover, 736 pages, ISBN 0385508476. Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Compares three versions of the diary; the original notes, the version revised by Anne Frank, and the final edition as it appeared in English. Includes an extensive study of its authenticity, biographies of the Frank family and their associates, and commentaries on Anne Frank's cultural legacy.
• Anne Frank's Tales From the Secret Annexe, Anne Frank, translated by Michel Mok and Ralph Manheim, Washington Square Press, copyright 1949 and 1960 by Otto Frank and in 1982 by Anne-Frank Fonds, English translation copyright 1952 and 1959 by Otto Frank and 1983 by Doubleday and Company, edition of September 1983, paperback, 156 pages, ISBN 0671458574. Relates short works of fiction by Anne Frank, as well as short essays by the same author.
• Roses from the Earth: the Biography of Anne Frank, Carol Ann Lee, foreword by Buddy Elias, Penguin 1999, 297 pages, ISBN 0670881406. Exhaustively researched biography of Anne Frank written with the approval of her surviving family.
• Anne Frank: the Biography, Melissa Muller, foreword by Miep Gies, translated by Rita and Robert Kimber, Bloomsbury 1999, 330 pages, ISBN 0747543720.
• The Footsteps of Anne Frank, Ernst Schnabel, Pan 1988, 158 pages, ISBN 0330029967. Considered a source for Anne Frank's later biographers, this was the first biography published about her (in German, 1958). Notable for its interviews with all of those who hid the Frank and van Pels families, the widow of Fritz Pfeffer, Otto Frank, neighbours and friends of Anne Frank, and several survivors who met them in the death camps.
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee, Penguin 2002, 364 pages, ISBN 0670913316. Biography of Anne Frank's father, drawing on many previously unpublished sources and venturing a new suspect as the betrayer.
• The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, Willy Lindwer, translated by Alison Meersschaert, Pantheon 1991, 204 pages, ISBN 0679401458. The testimonies of six women who were witness to the last months of Anne Frank's life in the Nazi concentration camps, including Hannah Goslar, who knew Anne Frank before she went into hiding, and Janny Brilleslijper who buried her in Bergen-Belsen.
• Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies, with Alison Leslie Gold, Simon and Schuster 1987, 252 pages, ISBN 0671662341. Autobiography of one of the Frank family's protectors, detailing the two years in hiding, the arrest, and its aftermath.
• A Friend Called Anne, Jaqueline Van Maarsen, with Carole Ann Lee, Penguin 2004, 130 pages, ISBN 0141317248. The war memories of one of Anne Frank's friends.
• Hannah Goslar Remembers, Alison Leslie Gold, Bloomsbury 1998, 135 pages, ISBN 0747540276. Biography of the girl who knew Anne Frank for ten years, and latterly met her in Bergen-Belsen shortly before her death.
• The Roommate of Anne Frank, Nanda Van Der Zee, Apsekt 2003, 94 pages, ISBN 905911096x. Short biography of Fritz Pfeffer based on the discovered letters and photo albums of his widow.
• Eva's Story, Eva Schloss, with Evelyn Julia Kent, WH Allen 1988, 224 pages. Memoir by a neighbour of Anne Frank, whose mother married Otto Frank in 1953. Describes their persecution and incarceration in Auschwitz.
• Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa, Susan Goldman Rubin, Abrams 2003, ISBN 0810945142. Biography of two U.S sisters who conducted a pre-war correspondance with Anne and Margot Frank.
• The Story of Anne Frank, Ruud van der Rol, translated by Arnold J Pomerans, Anne Frank House 2004, ISBN 9072972872. Comprehensive visual biography of Anne Frank, using high resolution images of Anne Frank's manuscripts and reproductions of hundreds of family photographs.
• Anne Frank: Reflections on her life and legacy, edited by Hyman A Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, University of Illinois Press 2000, 265 pages, ISBN 0252068238. Anthology of interviews, essays and articles surveying the life and cultural impact of Anne Frank.
• Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality, Denise De Costa, Rutgers University Press 1998, ISBN 0813525500. Joint psychological study of the Jewish Dutch War diarists, examining their motivation to write, spiritual beliefs and sexuality.