In 1947, Anne’s diary was published by Otto in its original Dutch. She handed him Anne’s diary, which she had found undisturbed after the Nazi raid. After the war, he returned to Amsterdam via Russia, and was reunited with Miep Gies, one of his former employees who had helped shelter him. Otto Frank was the only one of the 10 to survive the Nazi death camps. The camp was liberated by the British less than two months later. Suffering under the deplorable conditions of the camp, the two sisters caught typhus and died in February 1945.
In the fall of 1944, with the Soviet liberation of Poland underway, Anne was moved with her sister Margot to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They were sent to a concentration camp in Holland, and in September Anne and most of the others were shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Anne and the others had been given away by an unknown informer, and they were arrested along with two of the Christians who had helped shelter them. Three days later, 25 months of seclusion ended with the arrival of the Nazi Gestapo. On August 1, 1944, Anne made her last entry in her diary. In June 1944, Anne’s spirits were raised by the Allied landings at Normandy, and she was hopeful that the long-awaited liberation of Holland would soon begin. Anne and the others lived in rooms with blacked-out windows, and never flushed the toilet during the day out of fear that their presence would be detected. The entrance to the secret annex was hidden by a hinged bookcase, and former employees of Otto and other Dutch friends delivered them food and supplies procured at high risk. In November, a Jewish dentist-the eighth occupant of the hiding place-joined the group.įor two years, Anne kept a diary about her life in hiding that is marked with poignancy, humor, and insight. One week later, they were joined by Otto Frank’s business partner and his family. Less than a month later, Anne’s older sister, Margot, received a call-up notice to report to a Nazi “work camp.” Fearing deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, the Frank family took shelter in the secret annex the next day. On her 13th birthday in 1942, Anne began a diary relating her everyday experiences, her relationship with her family and friends, and observations about the increasingly dangerous world around her.
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