New Release Books by Anne Frank House

"Anne Frank''s life story, told in words and pictures from the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam.Anne Frank''s life story is told by answering the most frequently asked questions posed by children and young people visiting the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. Text, detailed photographs, and beautiful illustrations combine to give the fullest picture of Anne''s life, her diary, and the Secret Annex.Full of information about World War II, the Holocaust, and Anne''s time in hiding, the book provides both an overview of the history as well as intimate insights into the life of the young woman who''s story and diary continues to capture the imaginations of young people around the world."-- Provided by the publisher.

This detailed account of the Amsterdam annex where Anne Frank wrote her diary includes the stories of those who helped her and those who hid with her. For two years during the Second World War, young, Jewish Anne Frank lived in hiding from the Nazis. Everything she experienced, thought, and felt, she confided in her diary. She was just as frank in her descriptions of the seven other people in the Annex and of the five helpers who endangered their own lives to look after them. Years later, Anne Frank’s diary became world famous. The Secret Annex was so well set up that the hiders survived there for over two years. Who were these people, how did they meet, and what happened to them? This book shows the background and organization of the Annex and the personal stories of all involved, as well as their relationships and their fates. It also offers many never-before-published photographs. The result is an extraordinary group portrait that stays with the reader long after the last page is turned.

Anne Frank''s story has been read by millions worldwide -- now this new book reveals the images behind her famous words. Will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, because writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies. This is what Anne Frank confided in her diary on 5 April 1944. Her wish did come true, but she herself was never to know that. Anne died in March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was fifteen years old. This book tells the story of her life and shows it in the context of world events and World War Two. It answers the many questions that people ask. Where did Anne Frank come from? Why did she have to go into hiding? What did she write in her diary? How was she betrayed? What happened to her after she was arrested? How did her diary survive? It is illustrated with dozens of photographs of Anne, her family and friends.

While searching his grandmother''s attic for likely items to sell at a jumble sale, Jeroen finds a scrapbook his grandmother made during World War II. It brings back painful memories for her and she tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

A photographic history that sets Anne Frank''s personal story against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to power, the extermination of the Jews and the final Allied victory. This visual history documents the great evil that destroyed Anne Frank''s world, but also reveals how racism is thriving today.

Enhanced with more than two hundred photos, a comprehensive book examines the life of this young girl--before her years spent in hiding, through her death in the concentration camp in 1945.