Diary of a Young Girl

As the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1942, a Jewish family with a 13-year-old girl fled their home into hiding, successfully evading the terrifying Gestapo for two years. The girl, Anne Frank, wrote her diary until the family was betrayed and captured. While Anne Frank, her mother, and her sister eventually perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her beloved father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust. Her diary also survived, as the invading Gestapo deemed it a pile of "junk." An edited version of the manuscript was published after the war. Since then, it has been widely photocopied and translated. The diary contains Anne Frank's vivid impressions during her long isolation and offers a fascinating insight into her fearless personality. Here is a firsthand account of a vibrant teenage girl's outlook on life. This book is a must-read for anyone reading for the first time, and it will be a great pleasure for other readers as a reread.