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Hello and welcome to Life of the Week where leading historians delve into the lives of some of history's most intriguing and significant figures.

From ancient Egyptian pharaohs and medieval warriors

to daring 20th century spies.

Anne Frank was one of some 6 million Jews to be murdered by the Nazis.

A number of these victims lives were lost to history, but Anne had left behind a diary, a diary that would become a global sensation.

Here, in conversation with Spencer Misen, Claire Mully recounts the teenager's remarkable and tragic story from her impressions of wartime

Amsterdam and the hardships of life in hiding to her family's betrayal.

Hi Claire, thank you very much for joining us today.

We're here to talk about the life of Anne Frank.

Now Anne's tragic heart-rending story has been striking a chord with millions of readers around the world for more than seven decades and

her life story will be well known to many of our listeners, but for those for whom it isn't,

I wonder if you could give us a brief introduction to Anne. Who was she in a nutshell? Well Anne was a German Jewish citizen. It's often thought that she was

Dutch of course because she spent the last 10 years of her life living in Holland but she was born in

Frankfurt in 1929 and I think she's such an iconic figure she's such a big figure in history we tend to think of her like I don't know

Jonah Vark or Elizabeth the first but actually she's just one years older than my

mom who lives down the road you know she is within living history she was only born

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