Anna Marie Frank

Annelies Marie Frank, commonly known as Anne Frank, was a German-born Jewish diarist who documented her family's two years in hiding from Nazi persecution during World War II in her famous diary, *The Diary of a Young Girl*. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, her family fled to Amsterdam in 1934 amid rising antisemitism, but they were discovered in 1944 and deported to concentration camps. Anne died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in early 1945 at age 15, and her father Otto later published her diary, which became a classic of Holocaust literature.[1][2][5]