Mirjam Pressler, the translator and author of books for children and young adults, died at the age of 78 on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. In the 1980s, Mirjam Pressler re-translated from the Dutch and edited the diaries of Anne Frank for the Anne Frank Fonds Basel. This new translation subsequently formed the basis of the reader's edition, which has been published since 1991. All international editions are also based on this translation. For this edition of the diaries of Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler utilised the family archives and the estate of Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, who was responsible for the first edition. Later, in addition to several other publications on the life and work of Anne Frank, she wrote and was in charge of the complete edition and a book about the history of the family.