Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. The rise of Hitler to power in 1933 forces her family to flee to the Netherlands to escape the persecution unleashed by the Nazi regime against Jewish communities.

In 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne and her family hide in the back of a house in Amsterdam. For the next two years, she will document in her diary the painful experience of confinement.

With disarming honesty and humor, her entries capture the struggle of a girl to preserve, even in the face of the greatest danger, the freedom of thought, imagination, and the joy of childhood innocence.

Seventy years after its first publication, this diary remains the most moving story of World War II and a stunning tribute to the ideal of freedom.