Introduces the life of the teenage girl who dreamed of becoming a writer someday, but who died in a Nazi death camp withouth seeing her diary become famous around the world.

Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.

For Johanna Reiss, author of the classic "The Upstairs Room," an ongoing reckoning with universal tragedy becomes particular as she is forced to reckon with both her survival as a Holocaust survivor and her American husband's death--and explain this tragedy to her children.

"The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents. Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over...

Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

Combing historical information with narratives from survivors and excerpts from other victims' journals, this companion to the diary tells the life story of Anne Frank set chronologically against the significant events of the Holocaust.