Anne Frank
Known For: Writing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: June 12, 1929
Day of Death: March 12, 1945 (16 years old)
Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Germany
Annelies Marie Frank (1929–1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
