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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1993

by Anne Frank (Author), B.M. Mooyaart (Translator), Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction)

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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

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Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (June 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780553296983
ISBN-13: 978-0553296983
ASIN: 0553296981
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1,739 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > Europe > Germany
- #2 in Books > History > World > Women in History
- #4 in Books > History > World > Jewish > Holocaust

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One of the "must-read" books for every parent. Illuminating & inspiring read for everyone

By Vladimir Antimonov on August 13, 2014

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To me, this book became one of the most insightful, witty, well written and interesting books that I have ever read! It is almost unbelievable that the author, who possessed such a poignant mind with a very fine sense of humour, and a tremendous literary talent, was a girl of only 13-14 years of age!

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who, in 1942, together with her family and another family, went into a hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She had written most of this diary while they stayed there (and not in the camps, as usually thought of). Two years later they were found out and arrested by the Nazi police and transported to the labor camps, where almost everyone was eventually killed or died, including Anne. The only survivor was her father. Anne's diary was rescued by their Dutch friends just before the Nazi returned after their arrest to clean that hiding. After the war, with her father's consent and help, Anne's diary was published and became one of the most well known books in the world.

I had not heard much about it before I started to read it, and so had no particular expectations of what it will be. Quite unlike the popular image of this book, which is usually presented as the description of the suffering of the Jews during the WWII, the horrors of labor camps, etc., it is an optimistic and highly entertaining read about the life of this teenage (13-14) girl, mostly concerned with the grown ups around her and their social behaviour in that hide; her relationships with them and her innermost feelings and anxieties; her first and second love; her self exploration during those 25 months there and the hopes and dreams that she entertained for after the war is over, when they can return to a normal life; and much, much more.Read more ›

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A timeless book, an important reminder of why we must fight racism, religious bigotry, and xenophobia at every opportunity

By Mike Victor on June 26, 2013

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I downloaded and re-read this book after visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the Annex where she hid out until her betrayal and arrest.
It was eerie seeing the same neighborhood sights, hearing the same church bells that she wrote about. I really don't think you can appreciate her precocious insight and the poignancy of this book unless you are reading it as a father of a teenage daughter.
"A voice in me screams: go outside," she wrote after years of claustrophobic isolation. It must have been like living in a submarine. "Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect."
"In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see long lines of good, innocent people, accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, ordered about by a handful of men who bully and beat them until they nearly drop. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death... I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground. I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they’re Jews."
She tried to imagine a postwar world but it became increasingly difficult. "I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us," she wrote on 8 November 1943. "I do talk about 'after the war' but it's as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.Read more ›

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Story of Adolescent Angst

By Elvin Ortiz on May 31, 2012

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Engrossing. I was taken by surprise as I read Anne's diary. I was expecting to find lots of historical detail about the Holocaust. There is some of that. I was expecting to read the disjointed narrative of loose events. This diary had some of that, too. However, her narrative is a succinct and intimate portrait of two Jewish families, the Franks and the Van Daans, and an unmarried dentist. The diary does begin before her family goes into hiding, on June 12, 1942, but by July 9, Anne begins to chronicle the vicissitudes of the aforementioned families, and her personal reflections. Instead of politics and war, Anne describes quarrels between herself with her mother, Mrs. Van Daan, and Dussel (the dentist), between the Van Daans and the Franks, and between Mrs. Van Daan and Dussel. What makes these accounts astonishing is that Anne describes these quarrels with the irony and maturity of a full-fledged writer, and her tone makes any reader recall the ironies of a Jane Austen narrative (I may go as far as to compare the relationship between Anne and her mother with that of an Elizabeth Bennet with her silly mother in Pride and Prejudice). Only that this is nonfiction, and thus, her rivalry with her mother may be a situation that other teenagers may easily relate to. If Freud had this diary in his hands, he may even go as far as to point out that Anne has an Electra complex (the reverse of the Oedipus complex). Anne makes very clear that she cannot stand her mother and even claims to hate her. She may have modified this "hate" a year and a half later in the same diary, but she still accepts that she can live without her and that she cannot profess the motherly love.Read more ›

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an interesting read and of course once the book is ...

an interesting read and of course once the book is over the reality of it all hit me hard :(

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Five Stars

A classic

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Kind of surreal and heartbreaking.

Published 1 day ago by Craig Henderson

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Published 3 days ago by Mary Hillier

A classic

A good idea to read this one every few years. Reminds us of the good fortune most of us receive. And a good example of how to be gracious for what we've got.

Published 3 days ago by KC Parkinskyle

admirable, but difficult to read at times

This is an interesting piece of history, but it is also exactly what the title states: the diary of a young girl. Read more

Published 3 days ago by ASM

Five Stars

Great book. A piece of sad reality seen through the eyes of a girl.

Published 4 days ago by Costin Ungureanu

This should be required reading in school.

This is a very good read. What millions of people suffered at the hands of a madman. I always recommend this book for people who like to read in general or history enthusiasts. Read more

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Excellent

Re-read since I was young gave me a new understanding of Anne's life in hiding. A must read for all.

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