Anne Frank: Her Life and Legacy

A Life Cut Short

Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl whose diary has become a powerful testament to the horrors of the Holocaust, was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. Her sister Margot was three years her senior.

Anne's family fled to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape the growing anti-Semitism in Germany. In 1942, the Frank family went into hiding in a secret annex behind the Prinsengracht 263, an address that Anne Frank made famous in her diary, in Amsterdam, in order to avoid capture by the Nazis. They lived there for two years until they were discovered and sent to concentration camps.

Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, just two months before the camp was liberated by Allied forces. She was just 15 years old.