After the war, Otto returned to Amsterdam via Russia and was reunited with Miep Gies, one of his former employees who had helped shelter him. She handed him Anne’s diary, which she had found undisturbed after the Nazi raid. For decades, the public knew almost nothing about Frank’s post-capture experience, except that she died with her sister Margot at a place called Bergen-Belsen. People in hiding Edith Frank Margot Frank Otto Frank Anne Frank Peter van Pels Hermann van Pels Auguste van Pels Fritz Pfeffer Edith Frank Margot Frank Hermann van Pels Otto Frank Anne Frank Auguste van Pels Peter van Pels Fritz Pfeffer The helpers Victor Kugler Jan Gies Johannes Kleiman Miep Gies Bep Voskuijl Johan Voskuijl Victor Kugler Johan Voskuijl Miep Gies Johannes Kleiman Jan Gies Bep Voskuijl

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On 3 September 1944, [b] the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz concentration camp and arrived after a three-day journey; on the same train was Bloeme Evers-Emden, an Amsterdam native who had befriended Margot and Anne in the Jewish Lyceum [ nl] in 1941. [78] Bloeme saw Anne, Margot, and their mother regularly in Auschwitz, [79] and was interviewed for her remembrances of the Frank women in Auschwitz in the television documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (1988) by Dutch filmmaker Willy Lindwer [80] and the BBC documentary Anne Frank Remembered (1995). [81]In 1976, Otto Frank took action against Heinz Roth of Frankfurt, who published pamphlets stating that the diary was "a forgery". The judge ruled that if Roth were to publish any further statements he would be subjected to a fine of 500,000 German marks and a six-month jail sentence. Roth appealed against the court's decision. He died in 1978, and after a year his appeal was rejected. [137] On the morning of Monday, 6 July 1942, [34] the Frank family moved into their hiding place, a three-story space entered from a landing above the Opekta offices on the Prinsengracht, where some of Otto Frank's most trusted employees would be their helpers. This hiding place became known as the Achterhuis (translated into "Secret Annex" in English editions of the diary). Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly, and Otto left a note that hinted they were going to Switzerland. The need for secrecy forced them to leave behind Anne's cat, Moortje. As Jews were not allowed to use public transport, Otto, Edith and Anne walked several kilometres from their home. Margot cycled to the Prinsengracht with Miep Gies. [35] [36] The door to the Achterhuis was later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered. [37] The longer they were in hiding, the closer Peter and Anne became. It was Anne who took the initiative: she needed someone she could talk to about her feelings. They began spending more and more time together.

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Main article: The Diary of a Young Girl Publication Het Achterhuis (literally, "the rear house"), the first Dutch edition of Anne Frank's diary, published in 1947, later translated into English as The Diary of a Young Girl

Klinger, Jerry (21 May 2021). "The Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorial". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021 . Retrieved 23 August 2021. On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In the months after his liberation Otto Frank would discover that he is the only survivor out of these eight people. And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that. I can't imagine living like Mother, Mrs. van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!... There were people who threw themselves against the electric fence,” said de Jong-van Naarden. “To work it out completely alone – that didn’t work; even very strong women broke down,” she said. Salter, Jessica (5 June 2009). What Anne Frank Might Have Looked Like at 80. The Daily Telegraph (Motion picture). Archived from the original on 10 January 2022.

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She didn’t have any more tears, and she told me that she had such a horror of the lice and fleas in her clothes and that she had thrown all of her clothes away. It was the middle of winter and she was wrapped in one blanket. I gathered up everything I could find to give her so that she was dressed again,” said the survivor. Kennedy Says Anne Frank's Gift to World Will Survive Her Enemies". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 21 September 1961. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020 . Retrieved 27 April 2014. July 22, 1941: the only known occasion Anne was filmed, during the wedding of one of her neighbours. She is seen at 0:09 watching from the Franks' apartment at Merwedeplein 37 in Amsterdam, where they lived from 1934 to 1942 In 1942, a few days after Anne’s 13th birthday, the Frank family went into hiding. They lived for over 2 years in a secret annexe (or hidden apartment) above Mr Frank’s workplace in central Amsterdam. Four other Jewish people hid with them. Some non-Jewish friends risked their lives to bring them food. They hoped the Allied armies, including Britain and the USA, would arrive in time to liberate them Edith Frank". Anne Frank Fonds. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020 . Retrieved 11 August 2021.

Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau after an unprecedented, summer-long killing frenzy in which more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews were gassed. Jacobs, Alexandra (17 January 2022). "A Strong New Lead in 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' ". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022 . Retrieved 20 January 2022. Cluskey, Peter (9 April 2015). "Mystery of Anne Frank's informer revealed by Dutch author". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019 . Retrieved 8 January 2016.