On July 6, 1942, Anne Frank gave up life as she knew it and walked into hiding, entering a secret annex in a building in Amsterdam. The door was concealed by a bookcase.
What followed was two years of living in a confined space, jowl to jowl with her father Otto, mother Edith, and sister Margot, as well as several other families. Anne was just 13 and – with her concerns over boys, her frustration of being dismissed as the youngest, and clashes with her mother – she was in many ways a normal teenager. Yet she displayed remarkable courage.
This was not only physical courage – “we just had a third air raid. I decided to grit my teeth and
