Interesting Facts about Anne Frank and her book ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’

Search engine giant Google is honoring Jewish German-Dutch diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank with a slideshow Doodle on June 25, 2022. Google on Saturday recognized the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, with a Google doodle video representing moments from her life in the book. Here are some interesting facts about Anne Frank.

Here is a look at the life and diary of Anne Frank.

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• Birth name (Full name): Annelies Marie Frank
• Birth date: 12 June 1929
• Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
• Died on: February or March 1945 (aged 15)
• Birthplace: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany
• Resting place: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• Best known for: Her diary entries during World War II
• Also known as: Anne Frank
• Occupation: Diarist
• Language: Dutch, German
• Education:
  • 6th Montessori School Amsterdam (1934–1941)
  • Jewish Lyceum
• Genre: Biography, autobiography
• Parents:
  • Otto Frank (father)
  • Edith Frank (mother)
• Relatives
  • Margot Frank (sister)
  • Buddy Elias (cousin)

35 Interesting Facts about Anne Frank and her dairy

1. Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on Jun 12, 1929, to Anne’s mother Edith Frank (1900-45), and Anne’s father Otto Frank (1889-1980), a successful businessman.

2. Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929 when the country was disturbed. Many individuals had lost their jobs and were becoming poorer and Adolf Hitler – the leader of the Nazi* party – was faulting Jews* for Germany’s concerns.

3. Apprehensive for their security, Anne Frank’s parents moved the family to Holland when Anne was only four years of age. Anne lived and went to school in Amsterdam, and needed to learn Dutch. She made lots of friends and spent her free time reading and playing table tennis.

4. Otto Frank migrated to Amsterdam in the fall of 1933, where he established a modest but beneficial organization that produced a gelling ingredient used in making jam. Anne joined her sister Margot (1926-45) and her parents in the Dutch capital in February 1934 after traveling with her grandmother to Aachen, Germany. Anne started school in Amsterdam in 1935 and immediately acquired a reputation as a lively and popular student.

5. However, when World War II broke out, life for Anne Frank and her family became a lot harder. The Nazis forced severe principles on Jews, confining the places they could visit, the shops they could use and even the schools they went to. Anne’s father lost his organization, as Jewish individuals were not generally permitted to maintain their own businesses.

6. In May 1940, the Germans attacked the Netherlands, having entered World War II in September of the earlier year, and quickly made life in the Netherlands extremely prohibitive and perilous for the Jewish people living there.

7. Anne Frank focused on studying European history and literature and reading books on the subject. She took care of her looks too, curling her dark hair and painting her nails.

8. In 1942, the Nazis wanted to take Anne’s elder sister, Margot, to Germany, however, her family would not be isolated and went into hiding. Anne’s dad had spent several months preparing a hiding place, in the backhouse of his organization at Prinsengracht 263. Anne later named it the ‘The Secret Annex’.

9. The Secret Annex was above the warehouse. The entry to the Annex was subsequently hidden behind a bookcase. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, enrolled help from four of his employees who worked at the office and who became known as ‘the helpers’ — Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, Johannes Kleiman, and Victor Krugler. The assistants brought the family food, clothing, and different supplies while they were in hiding. Individuals working in the warehouse didn’t know about the people in hiding, aside from Johannes Voskuijl, Bep’s dad, who made the bookcase.

10. The Franks were the first family to move into the Secret Annex. Soon after, one more family moved in — Hermann and Auguste van Pels, and their son Peter. Later followed by Fritz Pfeffer.

11. Every one of the Frank sisters wanted to get back to school when they were able, and they kept on studying while in hiding. Margot finished a correspondence course in elementary Latin in Bep Voskuijl’s name (one of the people who had helped conceal them) and got great grades. Anne spent the majority of her time reading and studying, and she composed and changed her diary entries regularly (after Mar 1944).

12. On her thirteenth birthday celebration, Anne was given a journal. She loved writing and dreamed of becoming a well-known writer one day. She named her diary, Kitty.

13. Anne Frank would write about everyday events in her diary; things that presumably didn’t appear to be that significant at that point, however, that have assisted us with forming an image of what life resembled during this unimaginably troublesome time ever.

14. She wrote about what she ate, the film stars that she respected, the books she read, and the arguments she would have with her mom. She additionally wrote about being in hiding, the fears and challenges, and how she yearned to go outside.

15. Anne Frank wrote about her beliefs, feelings, dreams, desires, and issues she believed she was unable to share with anybody, as well as offering a story of situations as they happened. As her trust in her writing developed, and she matured, she started to write about additional abstract points like her trust in God and how she described human nativity.

16. While in hiding, the Franks, the Van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer must be amazingly careful to guarantee they weren’t found. For example, they weren’t permitted to flush the toilet during the day if the warehouse workers heard them, and Anne was simply seldom permitted to open a window. She would never go outside, either.

17. Anne Frank’s last entry was on Tuesday, Aug 1, 1944, shortly before her arrest. As Anne died in a concentration camp months after her arrest, her last diary entry is viewed as her last recorded words. This section finished with her saying, “if only there were no other people in the world”.

18. On 4th August 1944, the Nazis raided the Prinsengracht 263 and found the hiding place. They took the 8 people in hiding to Westerbork – a camp that held Jewish individuals and others hostage – in Holland. After a month, they were sent to Auschwitz, a bigger concentration camp* in Poland. Men and women were separated. In the end, Anne and her sister Margot were isolated from their mother and sent to another concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, on a crowded train.

19. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived Auschwitz and was liberated by Soviet troopers in January 1945. By summer, he discovered that his daughters and his wife were all dead. It was Otto who published Anne’s diary in 1947. Otto proceeded to have a long life: he died in Basel, Switzerland in 1980, at 91 years old.

20. Conditions at the camp were very poor. It was cold and wet, there was little food to eat and disease was common. Anne and Margot both died at the camp in February 1945 — only a few months before the end of World War II. It is believed that they died of a disease called typhus.

21. Anne and Margot’s mother, Edith, likewise died at Auschwitz. Their dad Otto was the only survivor of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex.

22. Anne Frank’s diary was saved by one of the helpers, Miep. At the point when Anne’s father Otto – the only surviving member of the Frank family – got back to Amsterdam toward the finish of the war, he received his daughter’s diary from Miep, on the day he heard that Anne and Margot passed on in Bergen-Belsen. He began to read Anne’s diary and published it, making Anne’s dream of becoming a writer a reality. The diary was published in 1947, named: The Secret Annex.

23. Miep Gies gathered the diaries and papers after the soldiers left and wanted to have the option to return them to Anne one day. After getting the pages, Otto submitted them for publication, realizing that was what Anne had expected. The first edition of the diary was called Het Achterhuis, or The Secret Annex.

24. Friends who searched the hiding place after the family’s capture later gave Otto Frank the papers abandoned by the Gestapo. Among them, he found Anne’s diary, which was published as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (initially in Dutch, 1947).

25. Since its publication, Anne Frank’s diary has sold millions of copies around the world and has been translated into more than 70 languages. It stays a significant account of the treatment that Jewish people suffered on account of the Nazis. Otto trusted that his girl’s diary would teach readers about the risks of disdain against others, prejudice, and segregation.

26. The Diary, which has been translated into more than 70 languages, is the most widely read diary of the Holocaust, and Anne is presumably the most popular of Holocaust victims.

27. The Diary was likewise made into a play that debuted on Broadway in October 1955, and in 1956 it won both the Tony Award for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for best drama.

28. Named the Diary of a Young Girl, it became one of the most-read non-fiction books ever written. ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ stays one of the most widely-read works of non-fiction, which is being used to teach individuals about the horrors of the Holocaust.

29. The diary, which Jewish teen Anne Frank composed while hiding from the Nazis, is one of the most enduring and powerful accounts of the Second World War.

30. In 1960, with the support of Otto, the former hiding place opened its doors as a museum, named the Anne Frank House. Every year, it is visited by more than 1.2 million individuals from around the world, who want to learn more about Anne Frank’s biography.

31. The hopeful writer decided it would be better used as a book. She changed to two notebooks after the autograph book was full and lastly turned to around 360 pages of loose leaf paper.

32. A new English translation of the Diary, published in 1995, contains material that was edited out of the original version, which makes the revised translation almost 33% longer than the first. The Frank family’s hiding place on the Prinsengracht, a canal in Amsterdam, became a museum “Anne Frank House” that is reliably among the city’s most-visited tourist sites.

33. 73 years after she began her diary, Anne Frank’s story keeps on inspiring a large number. She advises us that extraordinary stories frequently come from the most ordinary of children. As children, teens, and adults, we as a whole can battle discrimination and prejudice.

34. Many movies have been made to feature the horrors of the war and Holocaust, yet Anne Frank’s story stays one of the most chilling accounts to inform the world about the risks of oppression.

35. On June 25, 2022, Google featured a slideshow Doodle on its homepage for honoring Anne Frank. Google Doodle recognized the 75th anniversary of the publication of her diary, which is generally viewed as one of the most essential books in modern history. Google Doodle includes real excerpts from her book, which portrays what she and her loved ones experienced in hiding for more than two years.