The June 24 Google doodle commemorates the 93rd anniversary of Anne Frank's birthday and the 75th anniversary of the first publishing of her diary, in which she described the two years she and her family hid from the Nazi regime.
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The doodle will be presented in 25 countries, including the United States, Germany, Britain, Spain, Australia, and the Netherlands. It depicts Anne Franks sitting at a desk with pages of her diary behind her.
The Diary of a Young Girl was first published in 1947 by Otto Frank, Anne's father, the only family member to survive the war. It has since become a classic in Holocaust and world literature.
According to Google Trends, searches about Frank on the platform increased exponentially over the years, especially since February 2022, when Netflix launched the "My Best Friend Anne Frank" drama film based on the real-life friendship between Frank and Hannah Goslar.
The doodle was created by Google Doodle art director Thoka Maer. The illustrator, who was born and raised in Germany, said the doodle was her way of showing responsibility and keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.
Anne was born in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. As the Nazi rule intensified, the family fled to Amsterdam, which was invaded shortly after the outbreak of War War II, when Anne was just 10. In the spring of 1942, the family and several others went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. They were arrested on Aug. 4. 1944 and deported to concentration camps.
Although Anne did not survive the war, her account remains one of the most well-known descriptions of Jewish life during the Holocaust. It has been translated into over 70 languages and become part of school curriculums worldwide.
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