“I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, and not take me seriously.” Anne Frank’s final diary entry is filled with all the self doubt of a 15-year-old girl. She criticized herself for not having the courage to show the “pure Anne from within,” whom she believed was a better person than the cheerful one she showed to those around her. Little could she have guessed that millions would be captivated by the multifaceted Anne they came to know through her writing. On this day in 1944, German and Dutch authorities discovered and arrested Anne; her sister, Margot; her mother, Edith; her father, Otto; and the four other Jews in hiding with them in a secret annex in Amsterdam. After the arrest, the residents of the annex were sent first to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, and then on to Auschwitz. Otto was the only annex resident to survive the Holocaust. Edith died at Auschwitz. Margot and Anne died of typhus within days of each other at t...