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Definizione
Anne Frank was a young German Jewish girl who left behind a diary account of her family's life in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on June 12, 1929, Anne moved with her family to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1933 to escape the antisemitism and discriminatory laws imposed by the the ruling Nazi party in Germany. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, they imposed the same laws on the local population. Anne Frank began keeping her diary in June 1942. On July 6, 1942, the Franks went into hiding to avoid being rounded up and deported by the Germans. They hid in a secret annex to the building that housed Anne's father's business, at 263 Prisengracht. The Franks hid in the annex with four other people, Fritz Pfeffer and three members of the van Pels family. Miep Gies and five other non-Jewish employees of Anne's father cared for and assisted the Franks and the four others for the twenty-five months that they were in hiding. Anne and her family were discovered and arrested on August 4, 1944. The Germans sent all eight of the people hiding in the annex to the Westerbork concentration camp and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. On October 30, 1944, the Germans transferred Anne and her sister, Margot, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Anne and Margot both died of typhus there in February or March 1945. Anne's mother died in Auschwitz on January 6, 1945. Anne's father, Otto Frank, was the only one of the eight residents of the annex to survive the Holocaust. After the war he returned to Amsterdam. After reading Anne's diary, which Miep Gies had saved for him, Otto Frank decided to publish it. The diary was first published in June 1947 in Dutch under the name "Het Achterhuis." The diary has since been published in over thirty languages and is a prominent entry on most Holocaust-related reading lists. (en-US)
Fonte
Reader's Companion to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Doubleday, 1995.