Otto Frank, who was the only member of the immediate family who survived the camps — Anne died of typhus in March 1945 at Bergen-Belson — returned to Amsterdam, Gies gave him Anne’s diary.

Thanks to Miep Gies and Otto Frank, we know everything about Anne. We know nothing about Levy, other than he died at Auschwitz at the age of 13. This is his exhibit, too.

Otto Frank (second from left) inaugurating a statue of Anne in 1977 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Gies holds a large degree of responsibility for preserving Anne’s diary.

The Frank family hid with other Jews for two years in the attic of patriarch Otto Frank’s office in Amsterdam as the Nazi German army occupied the Netherlands during World War II.

Margot, Otto, Anne, and Edith Frank in Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, May 1941. Just over a year after this photo was taken, Margot was ordered to report to a labor camp.

Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929, the youngest of two daughters born to Edith and Otto Frank. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1934, after Adolf Hitler rose to power in ...