This work picks up where Anne's diary leaves off. It is a pioneering historical study, the most complete and systematic that has been carried out on the fate of each of the eight people who lived in that attic.

«Después del diario de Anne Frank» is a pioneering historical study, the most complete and systematic, that has been carried out on the fate of each of the eight people who lived in that attic after August 4, 1944, when they were discovered and arrested: Otto Frank -sole survivor- with his wife Edith and their daughters, Anne and Margot; the married couple Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter; and the dentist Fritz Pfeffer.

Continuing the work of previous investigations, Bas von Benda-Beckmann meticulously reconstructs the experience of these victims of the Holocaust - icons of a genocide that took the lives of eleven million people - from how they lived before the war, through their transfer to the Dutch Westerbork transit camp, their subsequent transfer between Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Mauthausen, Raguhn, Melk and Neuengamme, and finally the hardships they endured.

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