Claim: Anne Frank wrote The Diary of a Young Girl.
Evidence: One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust , she gained fame posthumously following the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl -LRB- originally Het Achterhuis ; The Secret Annex -RRB- , in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944 , during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.