Anne Frank was in hiding for a little over two years—specifically from 6 July 1942 until 4 August 1944, which is about 761 days (a bit more than two years and one month).

Quick Scoop: How long was Anne Frank in hiding?

  • Start of hiding: 6 July 1942, when Anne, her parents, and her sister Margot entered the Secret Annex behind Otto Frank’s business in Amsterdam.
  • End of hiding: 4 August 1944, when the annex was discovered in a raid and everyone there was arrested.
  • Total time in hiding: about 761 days, often described as “over two years” or “two years and one month.”

A brief narrative view

Anne’s family went into hiding the day after Margot received a call‑up notice for a so‑called “labour camp,” which her parents suspected was a deportation order. They joined a concealed space—the Secret Annex—where they later shared very tight quarters with the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer, living under constant fear of discovery while trying to maintain a kind of everyday routine. Anne wrote and later began revising her diary during this period, turning daily tension, boredom, and hope into a record that would become one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust. Their time in hiding ended abruptly in August 1944 when police raided the annex; the eight people were deported, and only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the camps.

TL;DR: Anne Frank was in hiding for about two years and one month (roughly 761 days), from July 1942 until August 1944.

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