Haunting book reveals what became of Anne Frank after her family were dragged off by the Nazis
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Anne Frank, After The Annex: Haunting book reveals what happened to a 15-year-old diarist after the Nazis dragged her family away
- Little is known about what happened after Anne Frank was captured by the Gestapo.
- But a new book brings together the chilling last months of the diarist and his family.
- Click here to read an exclusive excerpt from the shiny new work at The Mail+
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HIS extraordinary, captivating and haunting diary is one of the most significant books of the 20th century. But little has been known about what happened to Anne Frank after the Gestapo dragged her out of hiding in 1944, until now.
A shiny new book, After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond. an exclusive excerpt of which is available on The Mail+ today – reconstructs the chilling final months of the Jewish teenager and her family.
Drawing on testimony scattered throughout various archives and obscure publications, writer Bas von Benda-Beckmann has produced the most comprehensive and detailed account of the 15-year-old’s final days ever published.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most significant works of the 20th century.
Anne and her family, including Father Otto, on the right, hid in an annex behind this bookcase.
He reveals harrowing stories about a friend’s attempts to throw food parcels over a barbed wire fence at a frozen and starving Anne, as well as the punishing job he was given breaking up old batteries with a chisel and hammer, and her father’s attempts to get her a job cleaning toilets instead.
In the midst of the horror, a friend recounts that Anne spent a lot of time with Peter van Pels, a teenager whose family hid with the Franks in their Amsterdam annex. “They were always together and I would often say to my husband, ‘Just look at those two beautiful young men,'” she said. ‘At first, she was very pale, but her kind and expressive face was very attractive. Perhaps he shouldn’t say that Anne’s eyes were shining. But they shined, you know. She was happy …’
Anne, who would be 93 if she were alive today, and her family hid from Nazi persecution in the annex behind a bookcase in their Amsterdam home for two years before being caught.
After The Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond is a fascinating and terrifying insight into the period between the Gestapo raid on the Franks’ shelter and Anne’s death in 1945. Click here to read an exclusive excerpt now, only in The Mail+.
After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann will be published by Unicorn on January 27 for £25. © Bas von Benda-Beckmann 2023. To order a copy for £22.50 (offer valid until 28/01/22; free UK P&P on orders over £20), visit www.mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 020 3176 2937.