2-611-914 - Keystone Archives/Heritage Images

Photo and note from Anne Frank, 1942. Dated 10 October 1942. The translation reads This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a German Jewish girl who, together with her family, lived in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation to avoid detection and deportation by the Nazis. In August 1944 the family were betrayed and deported to the concentration camps. Anne and her sister, Margot, died from typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945. Anne kept a diary of her wartime experiences which her father, Otto, the only surviving member of the family, discovered had survived the war and had published in 1947. It has become one of the most widely read books ever published.