The essential companion to Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl. On August 1st 1944, Anne's diary ended abruptly. Three days later the Gestapo arrived and forcibly removed the family and sent them to Auschwitz and then Belsen. The millions who read her story, saw Anne as she portrayed herself. In this book Schnabel interviewed 42 of the people mentioned by Anne, including her father and many close relatives and friends. They tell the backstory of this hopeful girl and the story of her life in hiding.