On August 4, 1944, Anne Frank, her family, and four other Jews were discovered after two years of hiding. They were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister, Margot, were separated from their parents. After the war, Otto Frank, the family's lone survivor of the Holocaust, returned to Amsterdam from Auschwitz, Poland. He was given his daughter’s diary, which had been left behind when they were captured, and in 1947 he published her writings in Dutch. The Diary of a Young Girl has since sold more than 30 million copies in 67 languages and is widely regarded as one of the most powerful memoirs of the Holocaust. Anne's precious diary reveals her fears and hopes during their time in the "Secret Annex" and gives dramatic insight into the lives of Jews struggling to survive under the threat of Nazism. Her lively voice and eternal optimism were brutally extinguished at the age of 15, and Anne has grown to represent the lost promise of the many children murdered in the Holocaust.
