In March 1945, Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Jewish teenager’s account of her final years became a global phenomenon following the publication of the diary she kept while hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam. Since its first release in 1947, Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world.
Who hasn’t read Anne Frank’s diary? Translated into 70 languages and having sold more than 30 million copies, the book has become an international bestseller. The diary’s author, a Jewish German teenager, died 80 years ago in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.