Although Anne did not live to know it, in the fifty years following the writing of her diary, more than thirteen million people all over the world have become very interested in, and even fascinated with, her "unbosomings." Anne Frank's diary has been published in over forty languages and has been adapted into plays and films. Anne's other works, including an unfinished novel, have been published in The Works of Anne Frank, Tales From the House Behind: Fables, Personal Reminiscences, and Short Stories, and Anne Frank's Tales From the Secret Annex. The Franks' hiding place in Amsterdam has been preserved by the Anne Frank Foundation, and schools in various countries, as well as a village at Wuppertal, Germany, have been named in Frank's honor. As Ann Birstein and Alfred Kazin asserted in an introduction to The Works of Anne Frank, "Anne Frank has become a universal legend. Out of the millions who were gassed, burned, shot, hanged, starved, tortured, buried alive, the young girl ... has become a prime symbol of the innocence of all those who died in the middle of the twentieth century at the hands of the most powerful state in western Europe."
Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929.
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