Anne Frank (1929–1945) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her middle-class family included a mother, a father, and an older sister. Frank received her diary as a thirteenth birthday present less than a month before the Frank family went into hiding. Frank loved to read and write, and she kept a careful record of her family's ordeal. In her diary she recorded her ideas about life and the books she read, as well as her hopes for the future. In addition to her diary entries, she wrote stories and essays including the essay "Why?" People who read Frank's work are often amazed by the thoughtfulness and strong spirit she had even after living for two years in hiding. A few weeks before the family's discovery by the Nazis, Anne wrote in her diary that she could not give up hope because she believed people to be "good at heart." She also wrote that she was anxious to go out into the world again and make a difference. Frank, however, died at Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp, just three months before her sixteenth birthday.