The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Description

The Diary Of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings of Anne Frank a thirteen-year-old young girl, who was hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It was first published on June 25, 1947, in the Dutch language titled 'Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven (that means-The Annex: Diary Notes)14 Juni 1942  - 1 Augustus 1944' in Amsterdam. Later, In 1952, it was published in with the title Anne Frank: The Diary Of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (the United States) and Vallentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in English. The Diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, he gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank--the family's only known survivor of the war, just after World War II was over.

On July 5, 1942, Anne's elder sister Margot received an official summons to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany, and on July 6, went into hiding with their parents Otto and Edith. With the help of Otto's trusted colleagues, they remained hidden for two years and one month. A few months later, Hermann Van Pels (Otto's business partner) with his wife Auguste and their teenage son Peter joined Anne's family in sealed-off upper rooms of the annex. It was behind Otto's company building in Amsterdam. The rooms that everyone hid in were concealed behind a movable bookcase in the same building as Opekta.

Anne got a red checkered autograph book on her 13th birthday (12 June 1942) as her present that she used as her dairy. She wrote about the experience of being hidden for two years after the Nazis had occupied the land. She recorded daily events, her feelings of being cut off from the outside world. Her family suffered from hunger, boredom, claustrophobia, living in confined quarters, and ever-present the fear of being found or death. Dirty places, mites, rats did become part of their living in those two years of confinement that lead them to infections and many sorts of diseases. On the most unfortunate day, she and her family were betrayed, apprehended, and taken away to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she eventually died of typhus. 

Review

The Diary Of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a record of a sensitive girl's tragic experience during one of the worst periods in human history. This diary is so powerful that it leaves a deep impact on the mind of its reader. She wrote about hunger, threat, humiliation, cruelty, infection, and diseases that she had to face along with her parents and others during hiding in the confined quarters. Yet, she felt that in spite of everything, people are still good at heart. In the words of her father, "For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feeling."

The diary received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English Language. It has been published in more than 60 languages. It is included in several lists of the top books of the 20th century. In 2009, the notebooks of the dairy were submitted by the Netherlands and included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

The copyright of the Dutch version of the diary, published in 1947, expired on 1 January 2016, 70 years after the author's death as a result of the general rule in copyright law of the European Union. Following this, the original Dutch version was made available online.

Adaptation

It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

• The popularity of the diary inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and it won the Pulitzer Prize for 1955. A subsequent film version(1959) earned Shelley Winters an Academy Award for her performance. Winters donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. 
• The first major adaptation to quote literal passages from the diary was 2014's Anne, authorized and initiated Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the play had productions in Germany and Isreal.
• Other adaptions of the diary include a version by Wendy Kesselman from 1997. Alix Sober's 2014 The Secret Annex in which Anne Frank survives the Holocaust.

The first German film version of the diary, written by Fred Breinersdorfer, was released by NBC Universal in 2016. The film is derived from the 2014 Dutch stage production.

About the Author

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish Origin. Her parents moved to the Netherlands, she was just 4 years and a few months old, when the Nazi's took control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. 

She was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (Originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; The Secret Annex in English) in which she depicts her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. 

Anne Frank and her sister Margot were shifted to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Eastern Hanover, Nazi Germany where they both suffered from infection and illness. After a couple of months, Anne Frank died at the age of 15 due to typhus in 1945. 

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Rating: 4.7/5

Author: Anne Frank

Publisher: General Press (New edition), Contact Publishing (Original) 

Publishing Date: January 1, 2018 (New edition), June 25, 1947 (Dutch), 1952 (English)

Language: English

Genre: Autobiography, Jewish History, Jewish Holocaust History, World History WWII

ISBN-10: 9387669203

ISBN-13: 978-9387669208

Pages: 230 (Hardcover)

Cost: 21.77 (Hardcover)