''Tales from the Secret Annex'' is a collection of miscellaneous prose fiction and non-fiction written by

Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...

while she was in hiding during the

Nazi occupation of The Netherlands Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces surrendered. The Dutch government and the royal family re ...

. It was first published in The Netherlands in 1949, then in an expanded edition in 1960. A complete edition appeared in 1982, and was later included in the 2003 publication of ''The Revised Critical Edition of The Diary of Anne Frank''. These stories show what life in the Annex was like. For example, one story describes Mrs. Van D’s ‘dentist appointment’. Others show life before the Annex, such as telling on the class for cheating. Anne also describes loneliness in the Annex, like missing her friends. A revised British edition was published in 2010 by Halban Publishers. Along with her posthumously published diary, written in hiding between 1942 and 1944 and published in 1947, Anne Frank wrote short stories, essays, personal recollections, and the first five chapters of a novel. The latter was written in the back half of one of her diary notebooks, while the short pieces were compiled into a journal begun on September 2, 1943. Entitled ''Verhaaltjes, en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis beschreven door Anne Frank'' (''Stories and events from the Backhouse described by Anne Frank''), it was recovered with her other manuscripts from her hiding place by

Miep Gies Hermine "Miep" Gies (; ; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Pet ...

and

Bep Voskuijl Elisabeth "Bep" Voskuijl (; 5 July 1919 – 6 May 1983) was a resident of Amsterdam who helped conceal Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands. In the early versions of ''Het Achterhuis'', know ...

following Anne Frank's arrest by the

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...

on August 4, 1944.

* ''Tales from the Secret Annex'', Anne Frank (1956 and revised 2003) * '' Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition'', Anne Frank. Doubleday, 1995. (Hardcover) Unabridged version includes deletions from first edition. * ''The Revised Critical Edition of The Diary of Anne Frank'', Anne Frank, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom. Doubleday, 2003. .
''Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe''Halban Publishers
2010. Revised UK edition.

Biography

* ''Anne Frank Remembered'',

and

Alison Leslie Gold Alison Leslie Gold is an American author. Her books include ''Anne Frank Remembered'', ''Clairvoyant: the Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce'', ''The Devil's Mistress'', and ''Memories of Anne Frank''. She has written literary fiction as well as books ...

, 1988. (paperback). * ''The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank'', Willy Lindwer. Anchor, 1992. (paperback). * ''Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary – A Photographic Remembrance'', Rian Verhoeven, Ruud Van der Rol, Anna Quindlen (Introduction), Tony Langham (Translator) and Plym Peters (Translator). Puffin, 1995. (paperback). * '' Anne Frank: The Biography'', Melissa Muller, Bloomsbury 1999. * ''Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend'', Hannah Goslar and Alison Gold. Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999. (paperback). * ''Roses from the Earth: the biography of Anne Frank'', Carol Ann Lee, Penguin 1999. * '' My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank'',

Jacqueline van Maarsen Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (; born 30 January 1929) is a Dutch author and former bookbinder. She is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Jacque's Christian mother was able to remove the ''J'' (Jew) signs from the family ...

, Arcadia Books 2007. 1949 short story collections Books by Anne Frank Dutch literature Personal accounts of the Holocaust Unfinished books Books published posthumously {{Holocaust-memoir-stub

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