I have just finished the Diary Of a Young Girl and i have the strong feeling that i was moved back in time, as if it was 1944.
The diary is incredible, almost hard to belive that if was written by a 13 old gilr. If olny she'd had a chance to live- she would have been an amazing writer.
The book is written so clearly that you are able to imagine, almost touch everytching that's inside the secret annex.
you'll have a feeling that you are one of those 8 people who were living there for 2 years.
I really recomend this book for those who emphatise with the holocaust victims and also for those who don't know much about the hard times the Jews had to go through. Hard to belive....

The book Anne Frank is about a young girl who finds herself in the WWII. This young girl realizes that her country is being attacked by an evil dictator, Hitler, and his troops. Since Hitler was against Jewish people, the Jewish had two choices: being tortured till they die, or go into hiding. Anne and her family were qualified in the group of Jewish people. Her family, fortunately, found some one to help them go into hiding. She and her family had to learn how to adjust with the other family that was going into hiding with them. Of course life wasn't the same since the war and it wasn't a pleasurable moment for any of the people, especially the Jews. War got worse every day. A lot of people that were in hiding were found and burned in ovens .After so many worrying days the soldiers found the two families. Anna got her head shaved and was sent to a Jew camp where the Jews were tortured. At first they would shave their hair off and then put in tent and won't have food or water. Of course the human body cannot survive without these two sources. So they were tortured like this until they died. Anne, unfortunately, died this way. Her father, later in life, found this young girls diary and made it into a book so the world can see how this young girl was tortured till death. A lot of people have devoted their time and money to support Anne Frank. It's a heart breaking story that changes many peoples point of view to life.

The diary of a young girl is an inspiring story where I learned about some circumstances and events in the time of World War 2;
but this story is really about the meaning of life from a teenager's point of view.She writes events and stuff that she thinks while she is hidding with her family for more than 2 years.When she says in her diary that she wants to keep living, her diary then ends, and she was found and was set to a concentration camp and died.

A year ago, I was forced to read this book by my english teacher... At first, looking at the cover, (it was red with a picture of a girl) I had an impression that i would not enjoy reading it...

After a couple of days, i was surprised to see myself bringing the book everywhere I go... During break times, lunch, and spend 2 full hours reading it at home...

Reading this diary, made me picture how Anne had her teenage life.. It was really different from mine. Nothing beats how a 13 year old girl manage to live a life like a prisoner in the attic. No other friends to talk too... Same people she sees every single day... In a small place called the "Secret Annexe".

Can you imagine that that kind of life? That you have no idea if you can eat or not, if you should talk or remain silent for the whole day... or if you can still get out of that Annex and live a normal life again... Can you imagine??? But still, they remained hopeful until the last air they breathe...

For me, those people are the real heroes. They never gave up. They sacrificed and united. And best of all, their faith in God reamined strong.

This book influenced millions and millions of people from all over the world. This is a real story of a real world... And the fact that this happens too to so many people. Sometimes we ask, "Why do we need to repeat History?"

Read this book and you'll realize that this is different, worth it and remarkable...

This was such a well written book, that you would think an adult wrote. To know that a young lady wrote this was truly an inspiration for all those young people with writing dreams such as Anne's. Anne and her family went through such a hard two years and still remained hopeful and positive. This book really gives a great picture of what the Jewish community went through, all the unjust moves against them. It made me gain more respect for ALL religions and races. This book makes you wish that more help was sent to these people. We can never understand all the hardships The Franks went through, but we can help those going through similar persecution.

It was very interesting and exciting to delve into the life of a family hiding from the Nazis during WWII. I highly recommend this book and I hope I can one day go see the Anne Frank museum where the family lived during this time.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, The Diary of Anne Frank was forced on my class by my high school English teacher, probably part of the curriculum. What I read was, of course, unexpectedly fascinating and stuck with me throughout the years, as I am sure it does for anyone else who has read it.

Years later, I spotted the "Definitive Edition" in a bookstore and, though not intending to buy it to read it again, I read the cover. It claimed to be a "more complete" version of the diary, containing approximately 30% more text than earlier versions, revealing Anne as a realistic teenage girl writing in a personal journal that she (initially) never expects anyone to read. (I never knew that what I read in school had been "edited down.") I purchased it and having completed it, I can say that she is NOT the Anne Frank I remember from High School. The additional text is enormously important. She is quite, um, "frank" (sorry, but it's the right word) in her writing about her thoughts, feelings, and opinions. Her observations are insightful beyond those of most. She is finally revealed to me as being a REAL PERSON and this makes her story so much more involving, entertaining, accessible...and therefore more important.

Looking back, I feel that the condensed version I read in school does her (and her millions of readers who read the earlier version) an injustice because it simply doesn't feel quite real. She was too nice, too perfect, like a made-up character. Now I know that the Diary of Anne Frank that I had read had been edited, polished, and sanitized. It's a shame. The impact of the Definitive Edition had on me is far more potent because I believed it more.

Don't pass this up. If you are reluctant to tackle a book about heavy subject matter like the Holocaust, don't worry. That's not what this is, it the DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL and no matter who you are, no matter what your background, you will relate.

Reading this was like being there. Seeing how a young girl coped with a very difficult situation and still managed to remain a teenager was most heart wrenching and warming. Not having been there it is so hard to really realize what they must have gone through.

A beutiful diary of the last days in Anne Frank's life. She was very grown for her young age. Anne Frank was jew so she came with 13 in a concentration camp. In her diary she wrote about her last years there. She died in the age of 16 in the concentration camp. After that they release her diary!

What is remarkable about Anne Frank's diary, more than that it has survived for an audience of readers, is Anne Frank's mature outlook on life and the world. It is often hard to believe that this is the writing of a 14 year old girl. Thousands of books are available that view World War II through the eyes of an adult. Yet this book is one of the few that gives us a view of a Jewish child in Europe during World War II.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is written largely as a series of letters to an imaginary friend named Kitty. All of Anne's frustrations, fears, and musings are confessed in her diary. She is an adolescent female undergoing the same feelings of most adolescent females in unusual circumstances. Not only is Anne worried about Hitler and the Jewish concentration camps, but she is trying to break from her parents at a time when leaving her home is a risk to her life. Co-habiting with another family, she also has the privilage of finding love as a teenager. This creates some peculiar scenarios for Anne.

The great misfortune of this book is that the book ends when it seems Anne is on the verge of a major epiphany. She seems to be on the cusp of making a major self discovery, only to be hauled away from her family to her death. This is only one of the reasons that this book is so heartbreaking. Yet this is one of the elements that makes it one of the most important books written in the 20th Century.

I'll admit that this book was slow to begin with and hard to get into but I really enjoyed it towards the end.
The thing that struck me the most about this book is Anne's innocence. She is aware of the situation that she is in but her passion for life and her faith in people displays her innocence and the fact that she is so young.
I was fascinated by the way she obviously matured through the years that she was hiding and completely horrified by some of the topics that she was dealing with in her diary.
A very good book.

Okay, you know what? First of all, you people are all stupid. Anne Frank's diary is NOT a hoax. There was testing done on the diary that proved she did write it. Secondly, I'm tired of people saying the Holocaust never happened. I'd like them to go back in time and see exactly all the horrors. Thirdly, the reason Anne knew about what was going on in the camps was because the illegal radio told them, which you would know if you actually read the diary!!!!! Fourthly (if that's a word) I think people who write reviews here should spell things right and get their information right. Okay, it was SIX million Jews that died, not SIXTY. GET IT RIGHT, PEOPLE!!!! And just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm not some angry little Jewish kid who hates everybody because you got all the information wrong in your reviews. Now, I think everyone should read this diary. It's a very extrodinary tale and it teaches you alot of things. Give Anne some credit, okay? Just because she writes about boredom and quarrels in the Secret Annexe doesn't make it a boring story. It's very good. Someone wrote a review said that we shouldn't feel sorry for them because at least they had a roof over their heads. Give them a break, okay! They had hardly any food and couldn't go outside, they were bored. I bet that if you were in their shoes, you would do alot less worse than them, okay! This is a great book, I read it and re-read it all the time and have read practically every Anne Frank and Holocaust book known to mankind, saw the play, various movies and documentaries, and own the diary, as well as several other books and the movie. In case you haven't noticed, I'm like obbsessed with all this and am determined to prove what a great person Anne was. Oh, and here's why nobody can relate to Anne Frank: SHE WAS A VERY SPECIAL PERSON WE SHOULD ALL LOOK UP TO!!! Okay, and just so you know, every person I know says that I could have been Anne Frank's twin because we look so much alike, plus, our personalities are indentical and also, I'm obbbsessed with her. So everyone I know thinks I was her in a past life. So, in conclusion, (if you bothered to read my words of wisdom), this isn't really a review, but a rant about inconsiderate people. I think Anne Frank rocks, and if everyone wasn't busy saying her diary is a fake and went on and on about how boring it is and actually read it, you would learn alot of things about life and such things. So, read this!!!!!

I read A Diary of A Young Girl In My Independent Lit. Survey Class for a class project. The book moved me very good. It made me think about what life was like in the Holocaust and how life was for Annie Frank. I have also seen many plays about her and The diary thought it helped me understand what it was like through Annie Franks view. It also helped me learn more about how her life was lived and how she died at an young age. The diary starts out with her telling of her life before going into hiding and it continues on after going into hiding. The book had a lot of details and kept to one topic at a time. I rate the book 4 stars because the book had a lot of details but it also didn't keep my attention through out the book. Annie Franks life compared to the book was very hard and she lost her life because of a guy named Hitler started a war against all the Jews. Annie sister also ended up dying in a concentration camp where also Annie was held. Annie father was trying to find her to give her diary back because on of the family members that was up in the attic with the Frank's found the diary after they were found. The book was a really good book and I recommend the book to young adults, teenagers, or parents who have young kids who understand the Holocaust. The book is also a good research item if a student or someone else is trying to find research on someone that lived during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrible time for the Jews including the Franks. Before Annie and her family had to go into hiding they had all the things that they needed. A nice home, friends, and Annie and her sister where able to go to school freely intill the went into hiding.

i prefer other holocaust books than this one. "the diary of anne frank" is very slow and sometimes boring. it does not show the atrocities of the holocaust, unlike other less-famous diaries. anne's might have been long, but long doesn't exactly mean good. i once read a few-page "diary" by an unknown child in a camp which was very good. @ least anne had her family and a roof over her head. anne did make very profound statements, but it does not show the holocaust for what it really was. anne did suffer, but not as much as others did. it can be said as inspirational, but i prefer "night" by elie wiesel.

yes, anne frank, i believe was a good writer, but the way she wrote made it seem as if it was meant for publication or that she planned on publishing it.

just my opinion.

In school, I was required to read "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl", which was a great book, but I felt the writing was far beyond Anne's years when she wrote it. It was refreshing to read the definitive edition and see the text as it was originally written. Moreover, it gives the reader a much better insight as to who Anne really was. She was a typical teenager with the issues that many have dealt with at her age at one time or another, and is by no means dated in this area. In Anne's case, her diary was her sole refuge to pour out all her deepest feelings. If you want to know who Anne Frank really was, the definitive edition is the version you want to read.

how come so many(not many) ppl are getting upset about Anne. Even though she is dead, give her some respect already kay? Thank you. She was good and I think that everything in here. Was originally written.This is a powerful diary written by a great girl. Why do you think so many people read it every single year? This historical document teaches everyone great values. Everything is amazing about Anne. So be nice and try to pick up the book.

This is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. I have neither found the carm of it or the point of the book. Firstly, this book does not really show or deal with the Holocaust. It is about a girl who is growing up! Being the age of fourteen I have not been able to relate to her in any which way.Secondly, the book is very boring. She goes on endlessly about her bordemn and the fights that happen in the Annex. Lastly, it does not really share anything historical about the Hollocaust except for the idea of hiding. Overall I found this book pointless and very irrelevent. I have read much better books sbout the Holocaust that deal with many historical events. If you really want to learn more about the Holocaust I would recommend For Freedom:The story of a French Spy and Number the Stars.

Ever feel like there's no way out, that you're trapped inside a world that you can't escape? Well if so, then you might be able to relate to the book The Diary of Anne Frank.

In her diary Anne spills about everyday needs, problems, scares and even encounters with love itself; until her whole world changes. In this dramatic and riveting diary Anne tells how her world turned upside down. It's June 1942, in Amsterdam, the Frank family is living in a very nice and quaint home every one is peaceful and content and unaware of the fate that was in store for them. All but one family member was oblivious to what was happening around them, that one was Mr. Otto Frank himself; taking clues he found here and there he pieced things together and quickly decided to give personal belongings to trustful friends and neighbors and moves his family into safe hiding. One thing led to another and the Franks find themselves living in a secret annex atop of Mr. Frank's old work place. Going about day to day chores and taking care of the necessities, Anne describes her life in hiding. She also tells how it is living not only with her mother, father and sister Margret but also living with the Van Daan's, and Mr. Dýssel. Talk about being crowded. With daily quarrels and constant fighting the 8 of them find it difficult to contain themselves. Although it seems like no big deal, it truly is, having to keep quiet 24/7, not being allowed to bath for weeks on end and not even being allowed to look outside the window, let alone all of the other ruthless, brutal and cruel tasks they had to do. Their lives were filled with hardships and most of all it is filled with the secrets and emotions of this 13 year old girl, dreading the thought that haunted her every minute of everyday; getting caught. In this diary Anne explains it all, all there is left to do for these unfortunate 8 is to sit and wait to see what fait has in store for them.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who's 12 years of age or up, due to some mature material discussed in this book I advise a more mature audience reads this book. There are many complex topics that are discussed in this book that really require you to think sincerely about. The Diary of Anne Frank is truly and extraordinary book, teaching lessons and morals around the world, you will not be disappointed, it will touch the hearts of millions. I know it touched mine.

This book, The Diary of Anne Frank is a truly beautiful novel and utterly complex and is one of the most touching documents to come out of World War Two. It is about the life of a truly remarkable Jewish girl whose life was filled with promise, but tragically cut short. Young, vivacious, mercurial Anne Frank is living the last few years of her life in hiding from the Nazis and Adolf Hitler's complete annihilation of over sixty million Jews in a "Secret Annexe". There they, (The Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel) all endure hardships in their lives while in hiding.

What I will always remember about this story is that it's as true as you or me. Anne Frank was not just a fictional character you read in a book. She was a real person who after her death was declared a heroine. Anne was like a beacon of hope. In her diary she writes, "It's really a wonder I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe people are really good at heart." She still writes this in her diary even though her friends, family, and people she knew were being starved, burned, and gassed each day. This and many other entries in her diary show how strong her moral fiber was.

Anne Frank's diary was a moving personal document. A young girl hiding from Nazis and death in a small attic called the "Secret Anix" pours her emotions and hopes into a small cardboard covered book called Kitty. She is hiding with her mother, father, sister, the Van dans, and an elderly dentist. Her thoughts and emotions are very detailed. She explains her problems, and fears of being discovered and killed. The two years she lives in the "Secret Anex" she explains her love for Peter Van dan.

The book is wonderful and gives you the true sense of courage. The most moving document to come out of World War II.

This book was very moving. This book is about the girl living in natzi occupied Germany. This diary shows the pre-teen and a teen going through adolesence and living in closed quarters for almost 2 years and her struggles with food shortages, quarrles, and always the thought that they will be discovered and killed. Anne filled her pages with lots of thoughts and emotions. It will definetley be a book you will never forget. This is definetley one of the best books I've ever read and hopefully you'll love it to.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a tragic story and it makes you understand the feelings that the Jews are going through during the Holocaust. This is about a family of four who are forced into hiding for two years. Unfortunately for Anne Frank all she has as a friend is her diary. She feels that her parents do not understand her because they don't know who she really is. Anne Frank is a story for those who want to understand a young girl's point of view during this time of suffering, and for those who believe that their parents or grandparents don't understand what they're going through, so they can know that not only they are going through these difficult stages. It may have been from the past, but you can still relate.

In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl we learn of a girl's life and experience during the Holocaust, of her relationships with the people around her and her troubles and woes of being an early adolescent. I particularly enjoyed this book because I can understand the feelings Anne was going through at the time and therefore felt a sort of connection to her while I was reading it. As a matter of fact I felt so much like if she was one of my friends that her family's capture in the end came as quite a shock, I felt as if one of my friends was gone never to be there again. I truly recommend this book to all readers and old because it gives us a view of a young girl's life during the Holocaust.

This book explains the life of a Jewish girl who goes into hiding with her family during the Holocaust. This book is Anne Frank's diary which explains everything that went on while her family was in hiding. She addresses each of her letters to a friend named Kitty who is not even a real person. Every girl or young women should reads this book so that they may see what it was like for a young woman during World War II. Anne, father, mother, and sister Margot live in the small attic above her father's office. One of Mr. Frank's good friend's family joins the Franks. Mr. VanDann, Mrs. VanDann, Peter, and his cat live with the Franks as the outside world is being ripped apart by the Nazis who kill each Jew that they see or send them to concentration camps. Anne explains her everyday life which includes reading, studies, and listening to the radio. This book is heartwarming and very studious for a young girl for just thirteen. Anne keeps a great attitude it's as if she was living a normal life. This book keeps reading into the stories and the days for which she lives, you world have never known that she could have much to say for never being able to go out.

This book was about a young Jewish girl forced into hiding because of the massive extermination of Jews Hitler was causing. The holocaust was caused by the German people losing Word War I. Hitler(the German leader) used the Jews as a scapegoat for Germanys losses. Hitler built many concentration camps along with extermination camps to rid Germany and surrounding countries of the Jews. Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929. By the time she was 13 her family was in hiding, hiding as to not get caught by the Nazi police and be transported to a death camp. But one day in Augest of 1944 Anne's family was captured and taken to concentration camps. Every person Peter, Mr. & Mrs. Van Dann, Mr Dussel, Margot, Mrs. Frank, and Anne herself perished in a death camp. The only living person was Mr. Frank, who after going back to the "Secret Annex" found Anne's diary, the last memento he had of his daughter.

Diary of a young girl-Anne Frank

This is about a young girl and her family going into hiding because of the Holocaust. The Jewish people were taken from their homes and put in concentration camps. Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929. I felt sad because if black people were in that situation with some government who told us to get out our homes and we were transported to concentration camp I wouldn't know what to do and it really touched me. The way she wrote the book would make you think that she has a mind of a grown woman. She gave good details about what they had to eat what was going on with the other seven people for example like one family is fighting another family. The story she told made the characters sound very interesting I think the parts that the character play is for them and like that she put the book somewhere so her father can find it. I would recommend this book to all students that go to high school.

Holocaust Horrors
This book describes the complicated life of young women in hiding during the holocaust. Anne Frank and her family go into hiding with the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel. Anne's family is hiding in the "Secret Annex" for 2 years, the most important years of Anne's life. While in the "Secret Annex" Anne and 15-year-old Peter Van Daan get very close. Mr. Frank is concerned that the relationship will form into love, and limits Anne's visits to him. Anne rebels and Mr. Frank becomes very frustrated. When all is well, and everyone is anticipating the invasion Anne's last entry to her diary is made.
This book is amazingly well written for a 13-year-old. It is interesting, engaging, and meaningful. The Diary of a Young Girl explains the hardships of any young girl and of a young girl in hiding. I enjoyed this book and any other young lady would too. I especially loved how this book was made of the real thoughts and words of someone who experienced the hardships of the holocaust.

Troubling Memoirs of Anne Frank

Anne and her family are Jews and have to follow "Jew Laws". The Germans start to take away Jews and Anne's family did not want this to happen to them. So they decided to hide in the "Secret Annexe". It is in an office building in a town and they have to stay quiet constantly so that no one will find them. They do this for about two or three years. The food is little and the schedule is very strict, but they do it so they won't be taken away.
I did NOT like this book! 268 pages of the same events happening with an occasional twist got VERY boring. Of course, it was just her diary so it's not like she knew it was going to be published! Some things in the book were interesting and funny but I had a really hard time getting into it. The "Afterwards" section in the back was a bit more interesting just because of all the interesting facts and finding out about what happened after Anne stopped writing in her diary.

After Anne Frank turned 13, her world was turned upside-down. It was 1942 and the Germans had taken over Holland. They had started taking Jews away to concentration camps, so Anne`s father Otto decided that it would be best if they went into hiding from the Nazi`s. The Frank family along with the van Daan family, and Albert Dussel go into hiding in a somewhat
"Secret" annex above Otto`s former office. Anne can only bring mos needed items such as clothing, toiletries, and her diary. Anne writes in her diary almost every day about things happening in the annex and what she heard on the radio about the rest of the world. Sometimes, she writes about things any ordinary teenage girl would write about. Other times she would write about things very few people in the world would ever experience. Her diary geos from June 1942 to August 1944 when she was captured by the Nazi`s. Anne wanted to publish her stories that she wrote in the annex including her diary. After the war Anne`s father fulfilled her life long dream and published her diary.
I think this is a four star book because World war two is one of my favorite topics. It is particularly cool to learn about it from a girl who experienced it all at my age. Since she is Jewish I learned what it was like for them too. But this book is not just historical, it teaches people what girls were like, and what they thought about back in the 1940`s.
I recommend this book to girls 13-16 because this is how old Anne was when she wrote in her diary.

Anne Frank, was a thirteen year old Jewish girl who accomplished one of her dreams: to be remembered. Unfortunately, she would never live to see it, nor would anyone in her family but her father. Recording, almost painstakingly, the events and life of living in hiding, in a secrete annexe, we are reminded how real the Holocaust was.

While the diary is more about her relationships and personal feelings then the War, it still serves as an important peice of history.

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(Note that this review is for the book published by Bantam in July, 1993.)

"It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary...because it seems to me that...[not one person]...will be interested in the [outpouring of thoughts] of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart...I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty." (Partial diary entry June 20, 1942.)

This particular book consists of four parts. In the order they are presented, they are as follows:

(1) IMAGES from the life and diary of Anne Frank. Over ten black and white pictures are presented. (I only understood what some of these pictures meant after I read Anne Frank's diary.)
(2) INTRODUCTION by Eleanor Roosevelt. These are the last words of this very brief introduction: "Reading [Anne's diary] is a rich and rewarding experience."
(3) DIARY. Covers a period of just over two years. Only a few days of each month have a diary entry. Some terms in the diary entries have helpful footnotes provided by the translator.
(4) AFTERWORD consisting of three sections. Here we are told that: "The experiences that Anne described [in her diary] become perhaps even more meaningful when seen in their immediate historical context. It is the purpose of this brief Afterword to provide at least the outlines of that context and to bring Anne's own story to its conclusion." (I thought that the information of section (I) was crucial for getting the most from Anne's diary and thus it should have been presented before the actual diary.)

This is a non-fictional diary kept by a German-Jewish teenager. Anne was eventually forced to go and remain in hiding due to the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe. Roughly, from her thirteenth birthday to a few months after her fifteenth birthday, Anne Frank recorded her feelings, emotions, and thoughts, as well as the events that happened to her.

With her parents and her older teenage sister, and another family (two parents with their teenage son), and an elderly dentist, Anne lived in a set of rooms on the second and third floors of an old three-story building or house in Amsterdam, Holland whose entrance was concealed behind a bookcase or cupboard. (In Dutch, this arrangement is called "het achterbuis" that, loosely translated, means "secret annexe.")

Key dates to consider when reading this diary:

June 12, 1942: Anne's thirteenth birthday.
June 14, 1942: first diary entry.
July 8, 1942: last day of non-hiding.
July 9, 1942: the Frank family (of four) and another family (of three) go into hiding in the "secret annexe".
Nov. 17, 1942: an elderly dentist joins the group in hiding. There are now eight people in the "secret annexe."
June 12, 1943: Anne's fourteenth birthday.
June 12, 1944: Anne's fifteenth birthday.
August 1, 1944: last diary entry.

There is one diagram in Anne's diary, a very important diagram. It is a schematic of the entire building where she hid out showing the layout of all three floors.

During the day, when people worked in the offices and warehouse on the first floor, Anne and the others had to keep very quiet. This group in hiding had four "protectors" or "helpers" who worked in the offices (two men and two young women). These four supplied the group in hiding with food and other provisions as well as moral and psychological support. At night the group in hiding could move around more freely. However, even at night they still had to be careful so as to give the illusion that the building was uninhabited.

This diary is many things simultaneously. It is an account of the process of adolescence with Anne describing her thoughts and feelings about herself and the people around her, the world at large (especially the war), and life in general. It is also a terrifying description of what it was like to be a Jew--and in hiding--at a time when the Nazis sought to kill all the Jews of Europe.

In the ten diary entries she wrote before the families went into hiding, we discover something of the world of a child growing up in Holland in 1942.

This may sound strange, but I felt Anne Frank was like a good friend confiding in me. Her writing is that good!

The three-section Afterword is well written. (There is no indication as to who exactly wrote it.) Section (I) explains, among other things, how Hitler and the Nazi political party rose to power, why Hitler hated the Jews, and his "final solution" in dealing with them. Section (II) discusses, among other things, the Frank family and the German occupation of Amsterdam, and what happened to the group of eight in hiding after Aug. 1, 1944. Section (III) explains exactly how Anne Frank's diary got published and how it was received. Other interesting information is also included.

Finally, there are two problems I had with this book:

First, there is no table of contents. I felt that for such an important historical document, a detailed table of contents should have been included.

Second, the book's structure (alluded to above) could have been more logical. I thus recommend reading this book in the following order (compare this to the actual order indicated above):

(i) Introduction.
(ii) Afterword (section (I) only).
(iii) Diary.
(iv) Afterword (sections (II) and (III)).
(v) Images.

In conclusion, this is a remarkable diary and book. It provides moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings. The quotation that titles this review is from Anne Frank's diary. Her wish of living after her death has been fulfilled through her diary!!

**** ½

(first published 1947 in Holland; images 10 pages; diary 270 pages; afterword 15 pages)

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Anne Frank was a regular Jewish girl who was forced to go into hiding or to get a call up notice to be taken to a concentration camp. On Thursday, July 9, 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding along with the van Daans at 263 Princengraught. The two families lived there with the help of Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kulger, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijil, who did the shopping and keeping the families company. The food described was horrible. It was fried potatoes, pickled vegetables and fruit jams.
Anne also got a crush on Peter van Daan after she was frustrated with him for always being quiet. At Princengraught there were two instances where burglars broke in. On August 4, 1944 everyone at 263 Princengraught was taken away. I liked some parts of this book but since it was just about her life in hiding it was a little boring.

One reason I liked this book was because it was about the life of a girl who was less fortunate in hiding. In hiding they could not flush the toilet during work hours and they could only talk at a very low whisper and couldn't move around very much. For example one time when everyone thought that someone knew that they were hiding there and they had to sit still and make no sound for the whole day only to find out that the door as stuck and that Mr. Kleiman was trying to get in. Another reason her life wasn't the best was because she had to put up with Mrs. van Daan who was a very stuck up person who only wanted to best for herself and for her family and didn't care very much abut the Franks. Another reason was because the food was horrible and was not rationed out equally because the van Daans took the most for themselves.

One reason I didn't like this book was because nothing very exciting happened. One of the most exciting points in the book was when there was actually a burglar in the hide out. Another one of the most exciting points in the book was when there were three air raids in one day and through out the night. Another time was when the two cats got into a fight because the attic cat got in the way of the store room cat, and the more aggressive store room cat came out victorious after the battle.

Another reason I liked this book was book was because it some very good quotes and entries. One of the entries Anne Frank wrote was about a conversation about how they would be together when they were older. One of the best quotes that I think is very inspirational was "cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better." Another very good entry was her last entry, Tuesday, August 1, 1944; Anne Frank describes herself in two ways. One of her sides was joyful and happy all the time, and the other side was a little smarter and self continence about her surroundings.

I thought this was a very good book but it was also a little bit boring because it was not an action packed book. One reason that I liked this book was because it taught me about the less fortunate life of someone in hiding. One reason that I disliked this book was because it didn't have a lot of action. Another reason that I liked this book was because it had a lot of great quotes and entries in her diary. I would recommend this book to people with a taste in books has very little action.


R. Roston

Anne Frank is a Jew who is faced in a lot of discrimination, so they moved in order to avoid the German soldiers out to harm Jewsish people. Anne Frank, her family, a dentist, and another family travel to the "Secret Annexe" to stay hidden from the Germans. Anne and her family have to get along with the Van Danns, for their family cannot stand them for they always comment on everything they say or do. She is very independent, loves to learn, get new books, and write in her diary, Kitty. Her best friend is her diary, Kitty, which she writes in almost daily in her life. They Frank's await the time when World War Two will end, so they can return home once again. I recommend this book to people who love descriptive and fascinating stories from long ago.
In this book Anne Frank never has anyone on her side when she is in trouble. When Anne was looking at her sister, Margot's, book her mother came in there and scolded her about borroring things without asking, when all she was doing was looking at it. Also her father always listens to his wife like when she was scolding Anne about stealing people's things, he just barged in and started to make it worse than it already was. Another person who doesn't care for her is Mrs. Van Dann who always tells Anne at the dinner table that she is correct and she is wrong.
This book is filled with many facts about the lives of Jews during World War Two long ago. One way this book describes Jews hardships is when it told how many coupons they get for food compared to Germans, for they were less in power. Another point they stated about the Jews was that they often deserted their homes to get away from the Germans capturing and killing them. The final way this novel told about the life of Jews during World War Two was when they got news from back home saying that the Germans had came and captured many Jews, women, children,and men and taken them away to jails in Germany.
During Anne and her families life they have faced a lot of problems. One problem the Frank family faced was evacuating their homes to get to safety and leaving a lot of their belongings behind to a friend. Another hardship they faced was not having a mattress to sleep on at night so they barely ever got sleep during the night. The worst hardship they faced was not being able to leave the "Secret Annexe", so for years they never smelt a bit of fresh air.
Anybody who loves books filled with interesting and true facts about World World Two and the life of Jews long ago, this is the novel for you. This book is filled with many sad stories about how Anne Frank was treated. Their were also many hardships faced on the Frank family and their friends for they didn't have much, for they left it back at home. Also there are many true and interesting facts about the life of Jews and the bombs of the Germans daily.
T.Brown

I have read this book at least a dozen times from the age of 10 on. Everytime I do, I find something new, something about Anne that touches my heart. Her story transcends time and age. She was killed before her budding talent could really blossom, but her message lives on.
I wish she'd lived. I wished millions had lived.
It hits home how tragic it all was and how we must never forget.
Thank you Miep. Thank you for being so couragous.

When reading someone's diary, one probably shouldn't expect a story, but Anne Frank's diary is certainly a very well structured story. Of course it doesn't include the end, but the end is already known... in a sense, the spoiler is what is necessary to understand to feel the sort of tragedy that this book gives off from a generally inquisitive and happier narrator.

One of the most interesting aspects of this book is how early on Anne says, "I'd like to learn about psychology since I don't know much about it," but her experiences in a sort of abnormal sociological situation presents a lot more truth and depth to her understandings of the workings of human thought than I've ever seen described by a psychologist. Honestly, something about the forced quietness and the lack of physical freedom creates a level of introspection that is a lot more observational than typical day-to-day life. In short, Anne Frank became very wise in the two years or so she was writing this diary, so much that she is actually much more wise than the typical person living today.

So we have a narrative, and we have very well-written psychological observation, and we have a tragic end. It's a set-up to a great classic, basically.

Many people say that it's a real shame Anne Frank didn't live to be a great writer. Well, in a sense, it's a bit too late to overly worry about it; I'd take this book as it is. If anybody's interested in more works by Anne Frank, there's a publication called "Stories from the Secret Annex" that you can look into that detail some of her writings she did as gifts and time-killers while in hiding. There is a lot more out there to expand upon and explore beyond this little document, but this document is a very good starting place.

--PolarisDiB

Thanks to her diary-and unfortunately,the play about it,Anne
Frank is probably the best known victim of The Holocaust.And,while,Passover Seders I've conducted are pretty basic,the exception is from a portion I sometimes read from Anne's diary,she wrote on April 11,1944 when she was 15(p.257):"...Who has made us Jews different from all other people?Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up til now?It is
God who has made us as we are,but it will be God,too,who will raise us up again.If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left,when it is over,then Jews,instead of being doomed,will be held up as an example.Who knows,it might even be our religion from which the world and all the peoples learn good,and for that reason and that reason only do we have to suffer now.We can never become just Netherlanders,or just English,or just..representatives of any other country for that matter,we will always remain Jews,but we want to,too.."Unfortunately,this didn't make it into the play;it was replaced by:"We're not the only people that have to suffer.There have always been people that have had to..Sometimes one race...sometimes another.."This is unfortunately,thanks to playwrite Lillian Hellman,who remained a Stalinist until her death-and this deliberate fabrication of Anne's worldview,consumed author Meyer Levin-who was responsible for The Diary's publication and who won 50 thousand dollars in a lawsuit;not enough.

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) is a real story about the persecution of Jews in the Second World War. It describes very nearly what happened with a Jewish family in Amsterdam during that time. They had the luck to have a hiding place and people who helped them to survive longer than other Jews at this time. This book gives you a view of the life and feelings from a family who worries that nobody hear them. They couldn't do what everybody else could do they must be quiet and they must find somebody who can help the, to bring them food, clothes and all the stuff that you need to survive. It is writing in a diary from a nine year old girl. The whole book gives you a lot of information but in the end there is not enough information. It is an emotionally strong book for what you need basic information about this time to read it. I think you can read this book between 13 years of age and 100 years of age - every body can learn there something about the feelings from a girl that was forced to live in a time of human hate, stupidity, prejudice, and genocide, as a hostage because of fear. This book should show us that something like that never happen again. And that we have to fight for human rights and peace. I hope that somebody never has to write about a so horrible time like this time again.

I have fallen in love with a girl named Anne Frank.

It took me forty-some years to finally get to this book. Having now read it, I have been completely smitten by this vivacious, intelligent and strong young teenager.

I understand this is the "uncut" version of the diary, including segments which reveal her burgeoning sexuality. I was taken aback by her candor, her insight, her ability to be impossibly self-aware.

It begins shortly before her imprisonment in the "Secret Annexe", and ends so abruptly it's painful. Since you know what will happen to her, your anxiety level increases as you near the end of the book. I found myself still hoping for a rescue, even though I knew one would never come.

Her optimism infused me to the point of irrationality.

How fortunate for us that she is a natural writer. Her vivid descriptions of the Annexe, it's inhabitants, her own feelings...she has given us a window into a soul.
Diaries are by necessity and definition intimate. They are NOT by necessity and definition "literature."

This diary happens to be exactly that. While technically the voice of one girl, one cannot help but see through her own words, the thoughts and feelings of an entire country. An entire religion.

Being a young girl, a young Jew, during the rise of Hitler...NONE of us will ever know how that felt.

By some miracle, by the fact that this diary exists, and was presented for all to read, we will always be able to at least come close to understanding the inexplicable horror of that era.

All through the eyes of an amazing young girl.

This book explains the Holocaust from a child who lived through it. The author, Anne Frank, was captured and forced to work at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. This memoir seemed very informational and interesting. Though the Holocaust was very sad and horrible, it is very important to learn about. Before she was taken to Auschwitz she lived in a cramped apartment while in hiding, but after she was found and separated from her family she found that revenge wasn't the best way to feel better, instead just making it though such an experience was enough.
Anne lived happily with her family until the war with Germany. After most of their friends were taken away the Franks went into finding also. They lived in one of many concealed apartments behind a book case. But on August 4, 1944 the Nazi's invaded their little home. Anne's mother died in 1945 but Anne was chosen to go to another concentration camp in Germany Anne died from human cruelty at the concentration camp, the exact date isn't known.
The events have to do with have to do with how horrible war and what it was like being in a concentration camp. It was, with out a doubt, the worst experience of her, and all the other holocaust victims. Anne didn't give up hope even though times were rough and many of her friends were dying all around her. That was the message that she wanted to spread to the world.
The last two chapters of the book had to do with how so many people, including survivors, have wanted to help spread her story along with all the stories of all the victims. Anne talked about how horrible it was in hiding because you never really felt "safe" but her insecurity didn't get better after she was sent to the concentration camp.
Anne learned mostly why prejudice is so bad and why it most be stopped. She and her family and all the other victims from the holocaust could have been spared, not counting all the other people who have suffered or died from prejudice.

Nilas Granados
September 30, 2005
Period 5



THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
BY: ANNE FRANK




The memoir is about Anne Frank and her family during

World War II. Anne and her family and eight other people hide during

the invasion of Hitler's Jewish Holocaust during World War II. I chosed

this book because it seemed interesting to read. This was a horrible time

when the Nazis invaded all the countries in Europe trying to kill all the

Jews.

this bok was a great read and was really interesting.
the only problem was that it was ( in some parts ) a bit embarrasing to read aloud when i was aske to !
i would highly reccomend this book and hope you will like it as much as i do !!!!

I have to admit that when I first read this book, maybe about five years ago, I thought it was probably the most boring book ever. Language probably had something to do with it, as I read it in a language I'm not truly comfortable reading in. Now, after re-reading it, I've realized what a wonderful classic this book is - not only it describes a young Jew's life during the Holocaust (in an extraordinary situation) but also it tells about the most intimate feelings a person can feel. Sometimes I even feel guilty that so many people got to read Anne's deepest thoughts, for I'm sure this was never meant to come out to the public.

Are readers likely to like Anne after reading the book? Of course not! If people had access to my deepest, darkest secrets, I'd probably be a very hate-able person. In fact, I think it was disgusting how Anne talked about her mother and how selfish she was sometimes. But you have to remind yourselves, however, that Anne was just 13-15 and was suffering like none of us ever have. She was just a teenager, growing and struggling to find her true self!

Another interesting thing is how good of a writer Anne was at such a young age. It's sad to think about all those "what she could've been." At least a few of her writings came out to the open, somehow, but it's not the same.

This diary will not only offer very interesting accounts of a "life in hiding," but also some very philosophical questions and ideas. Obviously, Anne was a pretty smart girl...she was just very hard to understand, like any other girl her age will be.

I highly recommend this book to anyone for it's a very important classic to read. If you haven't read it, you're truly missing out on something that will definitely teach a lesson to humanity.

The impact of this "diary" has been immense, specially among the younger generations. In the 1950's it reached cult levels, in 1957 a pilgrimage of some 2,000 youngsters traveled from Hamburg to the Bergen-Belsen camp site to deposit flowers on the common graves, one of which would hold the remains of Anna. Simon Wiesenthal states that this book is more important than the Nuremberg Trials. As part of an evacuation of jews from western Europe the 14 year old child and her family were transported by rail to Auschwitz-Birkenau work camp presently located in southern Poland. A few weeks later with the red army close they were again moved by rail 400 km. to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. While there she contracted typhus, the illness that would bring about her death in march 1945. She was neither executed, murdered, gassed nor whatever. Ann died-like millions of non jews in the final months of the conflict-another indirect victim of the most gruesome and devastating war the world has ever known. Meanwhile his father Otto Frank also fell ill with the same disease from which he recovered in the camp's hospital.

Otto Frank died in Switzerland in 1980 a very rich man. But who really wrote this Diary and why? Numerous editors refused to publish the diary until it first saw the light in Holland in 1947, in 1952 it was first published in Paris and since then more than fifty versions have seen the light, with millions of copies sold (many forcibly since it has been assigned as mandatory reading in numerous learning institutions), also a movie and several theatre plays have been produced. According to the "Institut für zeitgeschichte in Munich, official German government spokesman, no massive means for the mass extermination of human beings existed in Germany (check Roth Heinz's Anne Frank's Tagebuch, ein schwindel, published in 1979). The truth about the diary began to come forth in Sweden in march 1959 in the swedish publication named "Fria Ord", these same articles were published on april 15 by the american publication "Economic Council Letter". The New York Times, october 2, 1955 declared the the Anne Frank diary was originally composed of 150 inscriptions, chronologically depicting the sensations and impressions of a young girl, yet from these the diary was made into a 293 pages long book which has been milked into so many sequels it's amazing! The "original" edition never saw the light (Otto Frank cleverly left out the conflictive statements from Anna and her mother about him). Later he admitted that the jewish writer Anneliese Schütz resorted to dutch journalist Albert Cauven in order to fill out numerous empty spaces in the book.

Still in doubt? Check the trial of reknown jewish writer Meyer Levin against Otto Frank filed at the N.Y. County Clerk's Office" under number 2241-1956 and also New York Supplement II, Series 170 and 5 II Series 181. Author Levine received a $50,000 settlement due to "fraud, contract violation and illicit use of ideas" from Anna's father Otto Frank. Private letters exchanged by Levin and Frank were submitted as evidence at the trial (held by a jewish judge) and proved that the diary was substantially fabricated and authored by one Meyer Levin, who in defense of his author's right not only sued Otto Frank to the tune of five million dollars but also sued movie producer Kiermit Bloombarden who staged certain scenes in the movie that although not part of the diary were based on Levins original writings for the book.

The "original manuscript" is partly written in ball point pen. And what about it? The ball point pen was invented in 1949 and mass marketed in 1951. Anne died in 1945.

Studies by expert calligraphists have shown the writing in the diary to differ notoriously from that in the Anne Frank letters published in America.

I think that Anne wrote her diary very well. It even achieved her goal for her: to become a famous writer. I feel sorry that she could not have lived longer to write more books.

I read this book when I was 11 or 12 years old. And of all the books I read as a child, this book made a lasting impression on me. Anne received a diary as a present for her 13th birthday, and a few weeks later her family went into hiding at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. In her diary, she writes of their life in hiding, of always hoping the war would end, of her feelings as an adolescent. I identified with her as a growing adolescent myself. I remember thinking how smart she is, I couldn't write a book, and she was only 13. And then she went to a concentration camp, and then she died. So senseless. What beautiful thoughts she had. This book is not the last edition which contains parts that Otto Frank, Anne's father, edited out. For me, the first diary is enough, and a classic in its own right. This is the book I first read.

She and her family stayed in the secret annex for only two years, and was arrested on August 4, 1944. She died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of Typhus along with her sister Margot. I went to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam in 2000. The museum is housed in the very building where her family hid themselves from the Nazis and where most of the entries of her diary were written. I remember being most moved by the excerpts of her diary written on the walls of all the rooms. To me that was really the highlight of the whole museum and wish I had written down the particular quotes given. There is a website for the museum, but I could not find those precious quotes there. The website is crammed with information about Anne, her family and the war years. If ever in Amsterdam, I highly recommend seeing the museum. The museum opened in 1960 with Otto Frank, Anne's father presiding. He lost his entire family to the camps, but amazingly survived himself and lived to be 90 years old.

I remember the narrow street of 263 Prinsengracht, the narrow streets of Amsterdam, the cramped space, the narrow stairs. I remember thinking how strange to be freely walking through these spaces and thinking there was a time when it had been even dangerous to even breathe there for those in hiding. At the exit of the museum are some photos of some of the camps and other famous photos of the period. A film is also shown and what I remember most from that is an interview with a friend of Anne's who recalls the last time she saw her. She was clutching a red cross package on the other side of a barbed wire fence. As she was talking to Anne, someone snatched the package away from her and Anne began to cry. Anne was by herself, at age 16, her sister having recently died. Anne probably died shortly thereafter, though the actual date is not known.

Anne Frank went into hiding , in 1942, with her parents and sister and four other people , in the sealed off back rooms of an Amsterdam office buliding , when the Nazi invaders of the Netherlands , intensified their persecution of Jews.

They were all dicovered in 1944 , by the Nazis, and of the group , only Anne's father Otto Frank survived the war. Anne died in the hideous death camp at Belsen.

In this remarkably intimate and beautifully written classic , Anne documents the two years in hiding - how they survived , amusing observances about the different residents of the house , as well as her own remarkable development , such topics as her sexuality and the development of her relationship with Peter Van Daam , as well as her sparkling brilliant intellect.

She reveals the peculiarities and personalities of the people who live with her in the annexe , in a series of accounts and amusing anecdotes.



One could ask why the Nazis brought about the death of this good , intelligent and charming child. One should ask what moves man to commit such horrors. What moved the Nazis to kill over a million Jewish children. What moves people to justify the murder of Jewish children in Israel today by Arab terrorists , or to justify the monstrous tyrannies in North Korea, Red China, Zimbabwe or Iran?

The book can equip young people to answer the questions that will be thrown at them today: Why did the Nazis do what they did? Why did the people of Europe allow it to happen? Why do we need the State of Israel?

We are living in time when values are distorted , moral relativity and the inversion of the truth are the order of the day. Anti-semitism is on the march again , in the shape of genocidal hatred of Israel. It is today that it becomes so relevant , Anne Frank's word in her diary: " It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground and maintain our opinions , at a time when all all ideals are being shattered and destoyed , when people are showing their worst side , and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God'.

I have no doubts in saying that the book is by far the most moving and saddest true story I have ever read. The life of a young girl through her diary, her deepest secrets , the way she potrays what they are going through in her innocence is just a reminder of how terrible their (The Jews) suffering was and we cannot even begin to imagine to what low levels humans can go to cause another human pain.

the paper quality of the book is not satisfactory, i expected better because you want such book to last you forever not look worn away within a month.

Sometimes anne will sober about her life sometimes she is delighted. her chaging moods can put action into the dairy or tears.

Belive me, the people who claim that this doary is a hoax are insecure losers. This shows an in depth look at the struggles of a teenage Jew during WWII. This is a great read for anyone.

The diary of Anne Frank is the tragic tale of a young girl in hiding during the dangers of World War 2.Anne Frank had a wild and cheerful personality which was never broken, even when she witnessed her mother's death.This book will keep your spirits high up until the very end when you will burst into tears and read the whole book all over again and again.The story is rather complicated as it seems and only the very best readers will be able to understand the writing of this child prodigy.Giving her whole heart into her diary(Kitty)Anne writes about her sense of being,her romances and her isolation from her friends and family.She complains about her mother's personality and raves about her darling lover,Peter.Most vivid readers will find this story an excellent and emotional read full of adventure and the lives of two families hiding in the same shelter during bomb raids and burgles.Annes life is an exciting life and although not royal, it should be placed as a royal diary.An elegant and intelligent lady who deserved to be queen of her time.

Yours,Toni