Holocaust diarist Anne Frank born in Frankfurt 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 12 1929)


Video: 'Anne Frank The Life of a Young Girl'

(Wednesday, June 12, 1929, 7:30 a.m. Central European Time)Anne Frank, the teenager who gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl in which she documented her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, was born Annelies Marie Frank today at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany.