Anne Frank: Life and Legacy

Anne Frank is among the best-known people to have died in the Holocaust. She died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, aged fifteen, one of the millions of Jews killed under the Nazi regime. Her diary, begun shortly before her family went into hiding in 1942, kept her voice alive. After her arrest, her father Otto arranged for it to be published in the Netherlands in 1947, and it soon spread around the world. Over time the book and its author took on wider meaning, and it was later adapted for stage and screen. This account looks beyond the diary to her family background, her life before going into hiding, and her final months in the camp. It is a sober story for readers of every age.