The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

1944

Wednesday, March 29, 1944

Dearest Kitty,

Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. Of course, everyone pounced on my diary. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret…

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Anne Frank

1929–1945

Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt and moved with her parents, Otto and Edith Frank, and her older sister, Margot, to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. In July 1942, the family went into hiding. For two years, Anne wrote about her experiences and dreams in a diary that has become one the most widely read works of nonfiction in the world. On August 4, 1944, Anne and her family were arrested and sent to the Westerbork labor camp and eventually to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus. The Diary of a Young Girl was posthumously published in 1947 and has been translated into sixty-seven languages, as well as adapted for theater and film.

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