The search engine Google is showing this Slideshow Doodle on June 25, 2022, in many countries
for honoring Anne Frank.
Anne Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage.
One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously
with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life
in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War
II.
It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and
films.
Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1934, when she was four and a half, her family moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany.
She spent most of her life in or around Amsterdam.
By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Anne lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless.
As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, they went into hiding in concealed
rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked.
Until the family's arrest by the German's Secret Police Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Anne
kept a diary she had received as a birthday present, and wrote in it regularly.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps.
On 1 November 1944, Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, where they died a few months later.
They were originally estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities
setting 31 March as the official date.
Later research has suggested they died in February or early March.
Otto, the only survivor of the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find
that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretary.
He decided to fulfill Anne's greatest wish to become a writer and publish her diary in
1947.
It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in
1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.
Google Doodle's presentation includes mentions of the Holocaust, which may be sensitive to
some viewers.
Anne Frank's diary text has been edited for length.
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me.
It seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings
of a thirteen-year-old school girl.
After May 1940 the good times were few and far between.
Hiding....where would we hide?
In the city?
In the country?
In a house?
In a shack?
When, where, how...?
Moortji, my cat, was the only living creature I said goodbye to.
The hiding place was located in Father's office building.
At eight o'clock the doorbell suddenly rang.
All I could think of was that someone was coming to get us, you know who I mean.
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves.
I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are
dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground.
I feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against
the bars of its dark cage.
Saturday, 15 July 1944 Yet, I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly
good at heart.
On August 4, 1944, the SS stormed the secret annex and deported all occupants.
Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15.