Haunting book reveals what became of Anne Frank after her family were dragged off by the Nazis

But new book pieces together the chilling final months of diarist and her family Little is known about what happened after Anne Frank was captured by Gestapo HER remarkable, compelling and haunting diary is one of the most significant books of the 20th century. A brilliant new book, After The Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond – an exclusive extract of which is available on The Mail+ today – pieces together the chilling final months of the Jewish teenager and her family. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most significant works of the 20th century Anne and her family - including father Otto, right - hid in an annex behind this bookcase He reveals harrowing stories about a friend’s attempts to throw food parcels over a barbed-wire fence to a starving and freezing Anne, as well as the punishing work she was given splitting open old batteries with a chisel and hammer – and her father’s attempts to get her a job cleaning toilets instead. Amid the horror, one friend recounts that Anne would spend a lot of time with Peter van Pels, a teenager whose family hid with the Franks in their Amsterdam annex.