About the author
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist murdered in the Holocaust. The diary she kept while hiding with her family in occupied Amsterdam preserves both the danger outside the annex and the ordinary intensity of adolescence inside it.
Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942. Her first entries describe classmates, family quarrels, books, and the ordinary effort of deciding who she is; within weeks, the Frank family goes into hiding above Otto Frank's business.
Where to start
Start with The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank records adolescence, family life, fear, and hope while hiding from Nazi persecution in occupied Amsterdam.
