How did the diary get published?
Meip Gies, one of the helpers and Otto Frank’s secretary, found the diary in the annexe after the family were taken. She kept the diary, unread and locked away. When it became clear that Anne had died she gave it to Otto Frank, who had survived the war. Otto, after long deliberation and discussion, decided to publish his daughter’s diary, using parts of versions a and b, this became version c. Many publishers turned down the chance to publish Anne’s diary as a book so soon after the end of the war, the first 1500 copies were eventually published in the summer of 1947.
