In 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.The Frank family hid in the annex for just over two years before being arrested and deported to Nazi-run concentration camps. Anne's father Otto, the only member of the family to survive the war, later published her diaries. The book went on to be published in dozens of countries around the world and is regarded as one of the most important works of the 20th century.It was on her 13th birthday that Anne received her first red checkered diary, calling it "maybe one of my nicest presents." A similar diary was laid on a table along with other gifts — a blue blouse, cold cream, a book, that she described receiving on her birthday.The apartment where the family was hidden is now owned by the Anne Frank Museum but unlike the secret annex is not open to the public. Fittingly, it is used by a Dutch literature fund to house writers who fear persecution in their own home countries. The current resident is a Kurdish poet and translator, Kawa Nemir, who just finished translating James Joyce's epic Ulysses into Kurdish.The Associated Press contributed to this article.