The Diary of a Young Girl

anne frank

The book has been used. The pages are somewhat yellowish. But the binding is solid and the book is perfectly readable. No annotations, no marks inside the pages.

Genres nonfictionbiographymemoirclassicshistoricalholocaustautobiographywarschoolworld war ii

258 pages, Paperback

First published June 25,1947

Literary awards

luisterboek award,

Places

amsterdam, netherlands,

This edition

Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Published: September 3, 1984 by Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671546830
ASIN: 067154683X
Language: English

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Anne Frank

Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most o...
Otto Frank

Father of Anne Frank....
Petronella Van Daan

Wife of the van Pels family which was in hiding with Anne Frank. Petronella van Daan is the pseudonym that Frank used in her famous diary....
Hermann Van Daan

Husband of the van Pels family which was in hiding with Anne Frank. Hermann van Daan is the pseudonym that Frank used in her famous diary....
Margot Frank

Sister of Anne Frank....
Peter Van Daan

Son of the van Pels family which was in hiding with Anne Frank. Peter van Daan is the pseudonym that Frank used in her famous diary....

About the author

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Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.