1.. IntroductionThe Diary of Anne Frank may be the most famous personal account of the Holocaust. This was written in Amsterdam, Netherlands between 1942 and 1944. Anne was born in 1929. Anne's father Otto came from a wealthy background, but his family's fortune was lost after World War I . The Franks, a Jewish family, moved to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. Anne received a diary on her thirteenth birthday and expressed the hope that it would become her only trusted confidant. He immediately began filling his diary with details of his life. Less than a month after she began documenting, Anne and her family were suddenly forced into hiding. The Franks were relatively prepared, since they had sent furniture and supplies to a secret lodging in Otto's office building in anticipation of the Gestapo. In hiding, the Franks used a radio to keep up with war news, and Anne often wrote in her diary about events that caught her attention. The Gestapo finally arrested Anne and her family on August 4, 1944. Two secretaries working in the building found books containing Anne's diary entries scattered on the floor of the annex. The secretaries handed the diaries to Miep Gies, an assistant in Otto's office. Miep kept the diary, unread, in a desk drawer. When the war ended in 1945, Miep gave the diary to Otto Frank, who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945. Otto Frank knew of his daughter's desire to become a writer. He has reviewed the diary and selected passages, keeping in mind the constraints of length and appropriateness... half the paper... he Frank and the van Daans are fortunate enough to have planned in advance to hide in case the need arises , but they still know they are not completely safe from the Nazis. Their safety depends on a good deal of luck and hope. Their fear grows every time the doorbell rings, there is a knock on the door, or they hear that there has been a break-in in the office building. They hear news from the outside world about their arrested friends and non-Jews suffering from lack of food. Anne knows that her family's situation is precarious and spends much of her time trying to distract herself from this frightening reality. However, every scare colors his diary entries. She knows what would happen to her and her family if they were discovered, and this fear that permeates life in the annex also permeates the tone of Anne's diary..