The heartbreaking life of Anne Frank is remembered on a limited mintage silver coin from Italian producer, Powercoin

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl whose diary became one of the most widely read firsthand accounts of the Holocaust. Born in Frankfurt in 1929, her family fled to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Following the German invasion of the Netherlands, the Frank family, along with four other Jewish people, went into hiding on July 6, 1942, in a secret annex behind her father Otto Frank’s business. Anne received a red-and-white chequered diary for her 13th birthday, just before going into hiding. Over two years, she documented the hardships of confinement, her personal adolescent growth, and her hopes for the future in the diary, addressing her entries to a fictional friend named “Kitty.”

On August 4, 1944, the hiding place was discovered by the Gestapo, acting on a tip, and all occupants were arrested and deported to concentration camps. Anne and her older sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died of typhus in February or March 1945, only weeks before the camp was liberated. Anne was 15 years old. Her father, Otto Frank, the family’s sole survivor, had the diary published in 1947, fulfilling Anne’s wish to become a writer.

Struck in an ounce of fine silver, Powercoin’s new offering depicts Anne in happier times, with her diary in the foreground, and pages caught by the wind in the air. The backdrop is a torn page, behind which we see a glimpse of her terrible future, with barbed wire and the houses of Amsterdam, where she hid for so long. The coin is struck to a high relief, and antique finished. The obverse has her open diary wrapped in barbed wire that transforms into a rose, to symbolise the triumph of hope over pain. Again, there’s a torn page in the background, behind which you see a wall, a nod to the inhumane camps. The inscription is one of her most remembered, ‘I don’t want to have lived in vain’, and her memory has certainly brought truth to that.

The coin comes boxed with a certificate of authenticity, and just 199 of these sympathetically designed coins will be minted. A suitably appropriate remembrance for Anne, a girl who still managed to make a mark on the world in her short life, and in the worst of times. Available to order now.