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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 six 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 Mizzin, 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 accord 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,

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