Kristie Lu Stout speaks with Professor Mary Anne Franks after a the emergence of a horrifying torture video on Facebook live
In This Story: Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank 12 June 1929 – c. February 1945 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 (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the world’s best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.