Happy Birthday, Anne Frank

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

Happy Birthday, Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, the daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer and younger sister of Margot Frank. Though she lived barely 15 years, her legacy is still celebrated today because of a diary she kept while her family hid from the Nazis in a Dutch apartment.

Memorable quotes from her diary express hope in the face of terrible adversity: "I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too; I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again."

Read our full profile and also read our separate piece on how the Diary of Anne Frank came to be published.