She continued writing until the Franks were discovered by the Nazis in August 1944. Anne and her sister Margot were eventually deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died in 1945. Their father Otto was the only family member to survive the war.

The diary of Anne Frank was discovered by Miep Gies, an associate of Otto Frank who had helped the family during their hiding. After the war, she passed the diary on to Otto Frank, who first published it in Dutch in 1947. The Diary of Anne Frank has since been translated into dozens of languages ​​and sold millions of copies.

According to Scholastic, Hoffman’s novel will dramatize how “state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters, Jews in the Netherlands are drawn into an inescapable wave of violence and hatred, and Anne is shaped by her private diary as both a young woman and a writer who will change the world.”

“We can highly recommend Alice Hoffman’s novel about Anne Frank’s life, set in the dramatic and terrible circumstances of those first years of the war. We hope it will convince young readers that it is both necessary and possible to contribute to a better world,” said Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, in a statement.

Other novels have been written about Anne Frank, including “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank” by Ellen Feldman, although without the involvement of the Anne Frank House.

Projects supported by Frank House include Forget-Me-Not, a children’s book about Anne Frank’s friends written by Janny van der Molen, and a graphic biography of Anne Frank written by Sid Jacobson and illustrated by Ernie Colón.