Sophie Ratcliffe

Early in 1941, Anne Frank made a new best friend. 'We hang out together all the time', she confided in her diary. The friendship lasted for a full school year before Anne was forced into hiding, and her journal entries record the development of their friendship: their bickering over other boys and girls, their collection of movie star postcards, and the way that they struggled, together, to make sense of occupied Amsterdam. Anne used a pseudonymn for her friend when writing - and for years, her real identity remained hidden.