Moved beyond words, he has it privately printed for friends. Nuremberg trials for Nazi war criminals begin. Eventually her diary is translated into 55 languages, selling over 20 million copies. A play based on Anne's diary wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama after its premiere at the Cort Theater in New York. The German version of the play premieres.
Packed audiences respond with stunned, remorseful silence.
Anne's hiding place becomes a museum known as the Anne Frank House, where the movie-star pictures still hang in Anne's room. Thousands of visitors come each year to this landmark enshrining the triumph of the human spirit. It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.