Anne Frank, the young Jewish teenager who went into hiding in an attic in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and later perished in Bergen-Belsen, has become internationally known for the expressions of courage and individuality written in her diary.

This Academy Award-winning documentary uses photographs, archival footage, and interviews to trace the life of Anne Frank from her girlhood before the war, to her family's time in hiding, to deportation, to her death almost at the end of the war. Through the powerful personal testimony of those who knew her the film makes the history real, and through the story of one person it conveys the terrible magnitude of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.