The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Thirteen, in hiding, writing to stay real.
you need to understand the Holocaust as something that happened to a specific person with opinions about boys and ambitions to be a writer
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Anne Frank hid with her family in a concealed annex in Amsterdam for two years. She kept a diary. She was discovered, deported, and died in Bergen-Belsen at fifteen. The diary survived. It is the most widely read dispatch from inside the Holocaust precisely because it is so completely a record of an interior life — a girl thinking about her future, arguing with her mother, falling in love, writing — and then that interior life is simply stopped. The most important document of the 20th century that is not a political text. The human cost made specific and irreversible.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Netherlands • Europe
- Voice
- Written by a Dutch author
- Themes
- Witness
