To her dear Kitty she confided her early sexual curiosity describing with

To her "dear Kitty" she confided her early sexual curiosity, describing with a remarkable lack of prurience the exploration of her own body. Jacqueline van Maarsen was a slightly older friend from those days and Anne was inquisitive about Jacqueline's physical development "What interested Anne very much was sexual behaviour. She was always in the centre of things."If this was Anne as a little girl, by the time she approached her teens she had become a highly curious adolescent, fascinated by her own burgeoning sexuality. Hanneli Goslar - now living in Israel with her daughter Ruth - remembers Anne's precociousness. "My mother always said, 'God knows everything, Anne knows everything better' Anne was, as they say in America, a 'spicy' girl She was always friendly with the boys The boys liked her. Only a few weeks later, the camp was liberated by the British Army Anne so nearly survived. But her diary remained, to become perhaps the single most famous document of the war.Her former schoolfriends interviewed in the film are women in late middle- age, as Anne would have been.

Anne Frank Remembered is her life story, told by people who knew her, starting with her childhood up to the age of 13, when the diary begins. Even more poignantly, it traces what happened to her in the seven months after the Frank family's hiding-place was betrayed; when Anne and her family were transported in cattle trains from one camp to another until she died in Bergen-Belsen, aged 15.The two-hour documentary includes an almost unbearably moving description by Janny Brilleslijper, the last of Anne's friends to see her before she perished from disease and starvation in late February or early March 1945. After Nelson Mandela's release from prison, he said he had been heartened by the words she had written when she too was a prisoner.Now, for the first time, we can learn what she did during the years not covered by the diary. The story, pieced together from eye-witness accounts, has been made into a remarkable film, which will be shown during the BBC's forthcoming weekend of VE Day programmes.

Above all, she symbolises the 11/2 million children who died at their hands. Through her diary she has become an icon; her life the embodiment of pathos, her spirit a symbol of courage and hope. His favourite was the story of two sisters, both called Paula, one of whom was obedient and polite to her parents, the other disobedient and mischievous. There was little doubt which Paula stood for Anne.This playful, mischievous girl produced, out of the anguish of war, a quite remarkable book. The Diary of Anne Frank is, after the Bible, the highest-selling non-fiction book in the world. It has been translated into 55 languages and has sold 25 million copies. But it covers only two years of Anne's life - admittedly a remarkable two years, when she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam during the war.Anne Frank has come to symbolise the 10 million people murdered by the Nazis, six million of them Jews.

She would get up and make a fuss and then she got angry and really impertinent and made a problem between her parents." Her father used to invent bedtime stories to tell her and her elder sister Margot. One friend of the Frank family, Isa Baschwitz, recalls Anne's behaviour on formal occasions: "She was naughty. Substitute not used: Margetson (gk).Referee: S Lodge (Barnsley).More reports,Last night's results, page 39. People all over the world can instantly summon up an image of Anne Frank's face.