The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank. Anneliese Marie Frank, known in Spanish as Anne Frank (Frankfurt am Main, June 12, 1929 - Bergen Belsen, March 12, 1945) was a German Jewish girl, world-famous thanks to the Diary of Anne Frank, the edition in form of his diary book, where he recorded the almost two and a half years he spent hiding, with his family and four other people.