The Diary of a Young Girl': Google doodle pays tribute to Holocaust victim Anne Frank

The Google doodle today on June 25 commemorated the 75th anniversary of the publication of Anne Frank’s diary ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, one of the world's best-known books. In the year 1947, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl,’ the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from German occupation during Second World War, was first published.

Anne Frank’s diary is considered to be one of the most powerful accounts to have survived from the Second World War. To mark the occasion, today's Google doodle is a heart-wrenching slideshow which shows sketches depicting excerpts from Anne Frank’s life as a Jewish teenager hiding in Holland from German occupation. It featured excerpts from her diary, which she wrote while in hiding from the Nazis with her family.

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage, she became known to the world posthumously as one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne had received her diary as a birthday present, and wrote in it regularly.