She was born in Frankfurt, on June 12, 1929, under the name of Annelies Marie Frank, but is better known as Anne Frank. Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager, wrote a diary of her family’s two years in hiding (1942–44) during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, and the book—which was first published in 1947, two years after Anne’s death in a concentration camp—became … Anne Frank (born Annelies Marie Frank; June 12, 1929–March 1945) was a Jewish teenager who spent two years hiding in a Secret Annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during World War II.While she died in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp at age 15, her father survived and found and published Anne's diary. During the Second World War her family were forced to hide from the Gestapo, and in the cramped conditions, she kept a diary of her experiences and thoughts. Anne Frank (1929-45) was a young Jewish girl who perished in the Holocaust.