Was Anne Frank a real person?

On 5 July 1942 Margot Frank receives a call-up to report for a German work camp. The next day the Frank family goes into hiding. The Van Pels family follows a week later and in November 1942 they are joined by an eighth person: the dentist Fritz Pfeffer . They remain in the secret annexe for more than two years. read more

You have to be either hopelessly uninformed or this is a sideways attempt to start some kind of Holocaust-denial debate. read more

What I am trying to make clear is, that whoever cooked up the diary of anne frank, knew TROTZ perfectly well, and used it as a blueprint for his choice of materials – leitmotifs and details – to employ in the diary, whether or not such materials coincided with real-life events and details and attitudes of anne ´s. read more

Even though Anne had chosen pseudonyms for everyone hiding in the Annex, when it came time to publish the diary after the war, Otto Frank decided to keep the pseudonyms for the other four people in the Annex but to use the real names of his family. read more