ANNE FRANK FONDS BASEL/GETTY
AMSTERDAM, c1935
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl of around five or six, looks at her watch while standing outside her father’s office in Amsterdam. Her family had fled to the city from their native Germany shortly after Hitler’s rise to power. Five years later, Amsterdam would be occupied by the Nazis; two years after that, the Franks would be forced into hiding in a secret annex. Anne took with her the present she had received for her 13th birthday, a red-andwhite chequered book, to use as a diary.