Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (pronunciationAnnelies_Marie_Anne_Frank.ogg; 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main - early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish (Jewish people) victims of the Holocaust (The Holocaust). Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the worlds most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.

Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany (Weimar Republic), she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a German (Germanic peoples) until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary (The Diary of a Young Girl) which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation (The Netherlands in World War II#German occupation) of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the same year as the Nazis (Nazism) gained power in Germany. By the beginning of 1940 they were trapped in Amsterdam due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of her father Otto Franks office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps (Internment). Anne Frank and her sister, Margot (Margot Frank), were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they both died of typhus in March 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.