Anne Frank and her family were arrested in Amsterdam

On the morning of 4 August 1944, German police raided a canal-side warehouse at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. Led by SS Hauptscharführer Karl Silberbauer, the officers pushed past a hinged bookcase to find a concealed annex where eight Jewish people had hidden for more than two years.

Among them was Anne Frank, then fifteen, who had been keeping a diary throughout the hiding. All eight, along with two of their helpers, were taken away; the raid lasted little over two hours. Anne’s scattered papers were later rescued from the floor by helper Miep Gies.

Of the eight people in hiding, only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the war.

The group was deported to Auschwitz, and Anne and her sister Margot were later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where both died of typhus in early 1945. Otto published Anne’s diary in 1947, turning a private record of fear and hope into one of the most-read accounts of the Holocaust.