The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim’s diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would have been her 80th birthday on June 12, 1929.
Frank died in a concentration camp at 15.
Until now her posthumously published diaries and other works have been kept in an archive at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Some have previously been displayed at the museum, which encompasses and preserves the “Secret Annex” — the tiny apartment above a canal-side warehouse where the Frank family hid for two years.
Book “Anne Frank: the biography” by Melissa Muller
“Anne Frank: the biography” by Melissa Muller is a must read for the insight into human nature it gives via the story of Anne’s father and his relationship with the woman who saved the diary, helped hide the family and gave him a place to live for about a year after the war. His lack of gratitude is amazing. The book is a quick read; the epilogue is the section that tells the story of Anne’s father after the war.