19. Anne Frank

Photos of Anne Frank are quite hard to come by. She's known to the world only because of her diaries, and she wrote most of those when she was hiding from the occupying Nazi forces in the city of Amsterdam, Holland. Her diaries have resulted in television shows, movies and a permanent museum being established in her memory and honor. She may not have survived the war, but the spirit of hope and defiance she seemed to embody did.

Someone who's in hiding is unlikely to pose for many photographs, and so we have to look a couple of years earlier to find one of Anne Frank. Here she is as a younger child in 1942, with her sister. She died in a Nazi concentration camp three years later at the age of 15. In the years since her death, her diary has been translated into over 60 languages.

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