after having been discovered in 1942., during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.In 1999, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, she gained fame posthumously following the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis; English: The Secret Annex), stating: "With a diary kept in a secret attic, Time named Anne Frank among the heroes and icons of the 20th century on their list The Most Important People of the Century, অ্যানা ফ্রাঙ্ক Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust