The Story Teller

“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

Anne Frank was one of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the second world war. She was born in 1929 in Germany, but her family moved to the Netherlands when she was four to avoid the anti-Jewish Party led by Adolf Hitler. In 1940, however, the Netherlands was occupied by Germany so in 1942, Anne Frank together with her family and four others went into hiding.

For 2 years, they lived in the annex room of the building that housed his father’s business.  And during those times, she kept a diary where she wrote about her daily life in hiding. In 1944, Anne’s group was betrayed, the annex was raided and they were arrested, deported and sent to concentration camps where Anne and her sister Margot died of typhus. Of the group, only her father, Otto Frank, survived.

Her diary, however, survived as well. It was kept by Miep Gies, the family helper who gave it to Otto Frank. In 1947, The Diary of A Young Girl was published in Dutch. Today, the diary is translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read book in the world.

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