The Google Doodle honors Anne Frank's 75th anniversary
Anne Frank's diary, written while hiding from the Nazis, is one of the most enduring and powerful accounts of the Second World War.
One of the most enduring and powerful accounts of the Second World War, Anne Frank's diary was published 75 years ago on June 25.
Google created a slideshow depicting Anne Frank's life as a Jewish teenager in Holland during the Second World War. While in hiding with her family from the Nazis, she wrote an excerpt from her diary.
The Germans invaded the Netherlands when Anne Frank, the daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank, was 10 years old. The Jews began to fear for their lives. There were many who fled.
A secret annex in Otto Frank's office building was used to hide the Frank family in 1942. A dentist named Fritz Pfeffer and another family shared space.
Anne Frank's diary served as her companion during the next 25 months of isolation. She wrote down every detail of her life, her adolescent dreams and fears.
In 1944, the Nazis discovered and detained the occupants of the secret annex. Nazis deported them to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, the largest concentration camp for mass killings.
Separated family. In Germany, Anne Frank and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen. Typhus fever is believed to have killed them both. Their mother Edith perished in Auschwitz due to starvation.