The Diary of Anne Frank is, 50 years after the last page was written, one of the most read books of our time. It has been translated into nearly 50 languages and has sold 20 million copies.

It was written in the attic of an old house in Amsterdam where courageous Dutch friends, with danger to their own lives, hid the Frank family for two years during the most cruel persecution of Jews by Hitler's secret police.

Anne Frank started her diary in July 1942 at the age of 13; the last page was written when she was a little over 15, August 1, 1944. Three days laster the whole family was arrested following denunciation of a Nazi collaborator. The collaborator received from Hitler's police, the usual reward, five Gulden ($1.60) for each member of the Frank family. Anne's father was the only one who survived the horrors of the concentration camps.

The most frightening night, during these two years in hiding, was April 9, 1944. In the evening, burglars broke in downstairs and the Frank family was sure that someone must have denounced them.

Anne Frank wrote in her entry: "Nobody dared to move nor did anybody sleep the whole night. None of us had been in such danger before. God really protected us. If a bomb falls each man is for himself, but in this case the fear was also for our good, innocent protectors." She ends the chapter with the profound religious belief that God will let them all survive the terrible war and persecution. These most moving words of hope, written nearly fifty years ago, form the text of Oskar Morawetz' composition which is dedicated to Anne's father, Otto Frank.