The first edition of the diary was called Het Achterhuis, or The Secret Annex. After receiving the pages, Otto submitted them for publication, knowing that was what Anne had intended. Miep Gies collected the diaries and papers after soldiers left and hoped to be able to return them to Anne one day. Otto Frank was given Anne’s diary by Miep Gies, one of the Dutch citizens who helped hide the Franks. Otto went on to have a long life: he passed away in Basel, Switzerland in 1980, at the age of 91. It was Otto who published Anne's diary in 1947. By summer, he learned that his daughters and his wife were all dead. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived Auschwitz and was liberated by Soviet soldiers in January 1945. Of the eight people who had been hiding in the Secret Annex, only one survived. But in 2015, new research released by the Anne Frank House suggested that both Anne and her sister, Margot, may have died in February (one month earlier than was previously believed). For a long time it was believed that three days after her sister’s death, Anne herself succumbed to typhus in March 1945-and that the camp was liberated by British troops a few weeks later. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but not in the gas chambers.Įmaciated, she had already lost her mother to starvation, her sister to typhus, and believed her father to be dead. “Maybe I should have picked it up off the floor,” he said. Silberbauer also later admitted that he bought a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl to see if he had been featured. Now I am suspended and I have just bought some new furniture and how am I going to pay for it?" After an investigation, he was allowed to return to his job. He is quoted as saying, “Why pick on me after all these years? I only did my duty.
The arresting officer, Karl Silberbauer, later said he vividly remembered arresting the Franks, and even reportedly told Otto Frank, “What a lovely daughter you have.” When Silberbauer’s actions were discovered in 1963, he was suspended from his job at the Viennese police force. German officers raided the building and made arrests on August 4, 1944. Anne and her family were found when they were betrayed by someone-anonymous to this day-who knew where they were hiding. Early letters were also addressed to Conny, Marianne, Emmy, and Pop. Not all of the diary was addressed to Kitty, by the way. Egyedi, who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, later said that she did not believe the letters were meant for her. Others disagree, believing that Anne borrowed the name from her favorite book series, Joop ter Heul, in which the title character’s best friend was named Kitty. Some believe “Kitty” refers to Anne’s prewar friend, Käthe "Kitty" Egyedi. Anne wrote most of her diary in the form of letters to a person named “Kitty.”
She switched to two notebooks after the autograph book was full, and finally resorted to about 360 pages of loose leaf paper. The aspiring writer decided it would be better used as a journal. The “diary” Anne received for her 13th birthday was actually an autograph book. If you haven’t read The Diary of a Young Girl in a while (or even if you have), here are 10 things you should know about the book and its author, who-along with her family-was captured by the Nazi Gestapo on August 4, 1944. Her diary has since sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into 67 languages. But they weren’t so everyday: they were the thoughts of Anne Frank, a 13-year-old in a unique position to help the world understand what it was like to have to hide your entire existence in exchange for a mere chance at surviving the Nazi regime. In 1947, the seemingly everyday, innocent thoughts of a teen girl were published.
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