The Girl With the Diary

On July 6, 1942, the Frank family walked through Amsterdam in the rain and vanished into a hidden set of rooms behind an office on the Prinsengracht Canal. A call-up notice for sixteen-year-old Margot had forced their plan forward by ten days, and thirteen-year-old Anne Frank wore layer upon layer of clothing because a suitcase would have drawn suspicion. What began as a desperate attempt to wait out the occupation became the setting for one of history's most widely read firsthand accounts. This is the story of the day they climbed the stairs and the world sealed behind them.