ABSTRACT
So wrote, in self-reflection, the then 15-year-old Anne Frank in her final diary entry on 1 August 1944. Only three days later, on 4 August, the SS and the Dutch Security Police stormed the so-called Achterhuis (Secret Annex), the Amsterdam hiding place of the Frank family, who had fled Germany several years earlier. Anne, her parents, her sister Margot and the four other Jewish people hiding in the building were arrested and subsequently deported. Except for Otto Frank, all died in Nazi concentration camps, and nothing survived of Anne apart from her diary, which has appeared in different editions since 1947 and was later made into a film. Today, it is still rightly considered to be a highly personal written legacy of one of the young, female Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
