Anne Frank was not just a victim of the Holocaust — she was a gifted, ambitious writer who revised her diary with the explicit intention of publishing it after the war. She heard a radio broadcast calling for wartime diaries and began editing her entries into a literary work she titled Het Achterhuis — The Secret Annex. The diary the world reads today is not a child's private journal but a young author's conscious literary creation, produced by a girl who wanted to be a writer and whose talent was unmistakable.

This episode traces Anne from her Frankfurt childhood through the years in hiding, the diary she crafted as literature, the betrayal and deportation to Bergen-Belsen, and the posthumous publication that made her the most widely read voice of the Holocaust.

• The Frankfurt childhood, the flight to Amsterdam, and the two years ...