anne frank

     

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (listen (help·info)) (June 12, 1929–early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt. She gaine international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Trivia about anne frank

  • On July 21, 1944 she wrote, "I'm finally getting optimistic... an assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life"
  • The first entry in her diary was dated June 14, 1942, the last, August 1, 1944
  • Her diary was first published in 1947 under its Dutch title "Het Achterhuis"
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  • Julie Harris reads the diary this girl wrote while in hiding in WWII Amsterdam
  • On June 20, 1942 she wrote that no one would be "interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl"
  • The Amsterdam house where this diarist & her family hid during WWII has been a museum since 1960
  • Her "diary" became a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play in 1956
  • For starters you can read the first entry, dated June 14, 1942, in this girl's diary
  • In 2009 Miep Gies, who, with her husband, hid this girl & her family during WWII, celebrated her 100th birthday
  • Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won a Pulitzer Prize for their adaptation of this girl's diary
  • One of history's most famous diaries was written by this Jewish girl in hiding during WWII
  • In her diary she wrote, "It is not the Dutch people's fault that we are having such a miserable time"
  • The entries in her famous diary were addressed to an imaginary friend named Kitty
  • Millie Perkins was a teenage model before she starred in "The Diary of" this famous teenager in 1959
  • In June 1998 Nathalie Paulding replaced Natalie Portman as this teenage diarist
  • The WWII diary of this Dutch Jewish teenager is widely read by young Japanese girls
  • Aug. 4, 1944:Police raid a house in Amsterdam; this 15-year-old girl is one of 8 arrested
  • In December 1998 a Dutch court banned any publication questioning the veracity of this girl's diary
  • She mentions her sister Margot's diary in her own diary, but Margot's was never found
  • In 1947 her father published the diary she had kept during her 25 months in hiding
  • On July 15, 1944 she entered into her diary, "I can feel the sufferings of millions"
  • The diary that she received for her 13th birthday in 1942 became one of the most famous books of the 20th century
  • After hiding for 760 days in a secret room, this diarist & her family were found by Nazis on August 4, 1944
  • In 1995 some sections of this Jewish girl's WWII diary were made public for the first time
  • "I still believe that people are really good at heart", she wrote in her diary July 15, 1944
  • Legislation has been introduced to bestow the honor on this WWII diary keeper
  • In 1944 she wrote in her diary, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"
  • The entries in her diary were addressed to "Kitty"
  • There's a statue of this young Jewish girl in Utrecht's main square