Of the eight people who lived in hiding in the Secret Annex, Anne's father, Otto, was the only one to survive the war. He prepared a typed manuscript of Anne's diary, which was published as Het Achterhuis in Holland in 1947. The book became a huge success throughout Europe and the United States; the American version, published in 1952 and containing an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, is still in print by Bantam Books. After Otto's death in 1980, a definitive version of the diary was published with previously omitted material. As Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven note in Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary:
People throughout the world have read Anne's diary and, because it captured so well the feeling and experiences of one of the war's many victims, have made Anne Frank a symbol of the millions of Jews who perished in the Second World War. Moreover, Anne has become a symbol for all people who are persecuted today for their background, the color of their skin, or their beliefs.
In 1957, the Amsterdam building that housed Anne's Secret Annex was saved from demolition by a group of conscientious citizens that included Otto Frank.
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