Anne Frank (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Anne Frank left a timeless written legacy of hope for the world that transcends the catastrophic circumstances of her untimely death and makes hers one of the most compelling, powerful, and enduring voices of the twentieth century.
Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, who had been a German lieutenant in World War I, settled in Frankfurt with his wife Edith in 1926. Their daughter Margot was born that year; Anne followed three years later. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Franks moved to 37 Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, where Otto Frank and two business partners ran...
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