Diarist · 1929 – 1945

Anne Frank

Little-Known Facts

  • She received the diary as a gift on her thirteenth birthday, shortly before going into hiding.
  • Her father, Otto, the only member of the family to survive, had the diary published in 1947.

Myths & Misconceptions

How did Anne Frank die?

After the annex was discovered in 1944, she was deported and died of disease at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945, only weeks before its liberation.