The Diary of a Young Girl

By Anne Frank

The diary entries of Anne Frank, a little girl who was forced to flee with her family due to the Nazi occupation, are collected in The Diary of a Young Girl, which is now available in Marathi. One of the most well-known works of literature produced during the Nazi era, this book has received extensive media attention. This novel has won praise from critics and has been translated into more than 60 languages. Miep Gies was successful in retrieving Anne Frank's journal after she passed away in a concentration camp from typhus, and she gave it to the family's lone survivor, Anne's father. The diary was later released by her father. This classic memoir is a must-read for all! • It is a moving coming-of-age story • This personal narrative is written with insight, humor, and intelligence • It became a classic of war literature that continues to enthrall readers to this very day • The varied themes and thought-provoking ideas will take you on an incredible journey • It is a wonderful keepsake gift to treasure and share and will be a good addition to any library

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fingerprint Publishing
• Release date: Feb 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9789358568578

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Reviews for The Diary of a Young Girl

[eavans-914612 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This really is a teen girl's diary, in all its glory.

[kslade-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good biography of a hidden Jewish girl and her family in Amsterdam. I read a couple more later in 2010 about her. The diary is not quite what I thought it was!

[debbie13410 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was so engrossed in the diary I began to root for Anne even knowing her fate.

[missyivey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Originally published in 1947. I read back in high school around 1982. This book left a lasting impression on my young mind. My emotions were all over the place. I cried throughout this book.

[caseybp · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an unbelievable and beautiful account of life in war. I read the book on the dates prescribed. As one reads the diary it is easy to see this young girl go through the trials of maturing while trying to stand her circumsatance. Anne Frank's voice reaches to us to this day and will always be relevant as a triumph of humanity.

[angelalam-300700 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A stark look at the Holocaust through the eyes of a hopeful teenage girl.

[ghr4 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Despite the harrowing and extraordinary context in which Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was written (a Jewish family in hiding during the German occupation of Holland in World War) this is still, at its core, a thoughtful and beautifully written diary of an ordinary adolescent trying to sort through the inherent angst, emotions, and insecurities. Throughout, she shares her hopes for her future, and also displays a keen sense of humor, sharp insights of the interpersonal dynamics of her family, and the budding skills of a fine writer. The omnipresent cloud of fear and trepidation associated with the possibility of exposure and capture by the Nazis at any time adds a layer of dread and taut drama to the everyday activities she relates in the “Secret Annexe.” There is a point in the diary where we can sense the overall tone changing, where we can sense a growing maturity, and where we can clearly see her transitioning from childhood to adulthood. And the foreknowledge of the fate of Anne Frank, her family, and friends after they were discovered by the Gestapo, makes this an extremely poignant and ultimately heartbreaking childhood memoir, truly one for the ages.

[oldandnewbooksmell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

First off, you can't really review a diary, now can you? These are simply my thoughts and connections I had with Anne.

I studied writing in college (have a degree in Fiction Writing) and one of the common questions that would rise was - would you let others read your journals or would you read theirs? My answer was always "No" to letting others read mine - at least until I was way past gone and there was no one else alive that personally knew me. I then battled with the answer for authors, and honestly, I try to keep the same route unless the author says otherwise. I've read a ton of historical fiction based in World War II, I've watched movies, I've seen documentaries, I've even watched the multiple versions of this diary's adaptation, but I hadn't ever read the book. Until now.

It came up a lot, surprisedly, while in quarantine. Online, when people would whine about being stuck inside and not being able to go out, people brought up Anne and the others hidden away in the Secret Annex for 761 days. After doing research on it, I discovered it was Anne's wish to publish this diary. She didn't get to edit the entire thing, but she had gotten started. She writes in her diary how she wanted to be a journalist and share this with the world. That's the only reason I felt okay reading her diary.

That being said, reading this diary was like talking with a friend. Anne had such a perspective on life that was way beyond her years. I almost always forgot she started this diary as a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl and it ended shortly after fifteen. She made me laugh and smile, she made me really think of the world, even 75 years later. For someone who was in hiding for her life, she really did try to hold on to hope.

"...But I looked out of the open window too, over a large area of Amsterdam, over all the roofs and on the horizon, which was such a pale blue that it was hard to see the dividing line. "As long as this exists," I thought, "and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy." (23 February, 1944)

Anne went through important milestones in her life while being constantly under watch by some adult. You think being a teenager is hard enough, add being the youngest and having every adult you're even remotely close to hovering over your shoulder. She mentions a few times where she was just in a cranky mood but felt like she couldn't justify it and therefore would have to say she had a headache or something when the adults asked. Nothing was private.

All I can say is that I'm thankful for Anne for keeping this diary. She may have passed, but she still lives on, and will continue to live on as long as we keep sharing these stories.

"We all live, but we don't know the why or the wherefore. We all live with the object of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. We three have been brought up to good circles, we have the chance to learn, the possibility of attaining something, we have all reason to hope for much happiness, but... we must earn it for ourselves. And that is never easy. You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." (6 July, 1944).

[andorion-259107 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The toughest part about reading this book was reading all of Anne's thoughts, dreams and ambitions and then looking at the date of the entry and realizing how little time she had left.

[lara9it · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

One of the few "suggested" book from school that I really liked!

[betsy_crumley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Reading again through my 13 year old son's eyes-school assignment-Since being a mother of a teenager I see this book's light so differently...amazing how no matter who or where you are in time or space-navigating the ages of 13-15 is eerily similar...something my son picked up on--I was still caught up in the impending events, emotion, love of Anne's spirit, and the doom...he picked up on what he needed and every young adult needs during this crazy ride they are on...

[bloodmoney138 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Assigning a rating to this book just feels inherently sort of...off so I'll just slap it with a middling grade, plus half a point for its importance, and call it a day.

[lisa8025 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really love this book. I read this book when i was younger and I read it again a few years ago. It's a very good book. A very inspirational true story. Her story is very sad and i really admire her strength. I don't know if i could have been as strong as she was. She had so much hope and had so many dreams and I feel so bad that her life was cut short. No kid in this world deserves that. She truly is an inspiration to me and I always remember her story. Whenever I feel down about something, I try to remember that she had it worst and still she never lost hope. God bless her!

[indygo88 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I'm ashamed for two reasons: (1) I'd not read this book until now, and (2) it took me nearly the span of six months to do so. But now I can say that I have read and finished it. The timing is interesting, as we're in the midst of a world-wide pandemic, sheltering within our homes, and people are using Anne Frank's experience of being shut up for two years as a comparison; or rather, something to put things in perspective. Certainly our current experience is nothing like that of the Franks, and I know that we all know that. There's not a lot to say that hasn't already been said about this book/diary. This truly is a diary of a young girl, and while she was extremely bright and mature above her years in many ways, she was also still a young adolescent, coming to age in unfortunate circumstances, and showing her immaturity in other aspects. I suppose that's why I didn't ultimately rate this book higher than I did. I think I was expecting more drama related to World War 2, and really, a lot of this diary just included the day-to-day things that a girl of her age would write about, which is perfectly normal, but alas, caused the reading to drag on for me. But this is a piece of history, and it makes me hungry to research more about Anne, and you can't underestimate the power of something like that.

[tammyhil · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is one of the few books I remember reading in 5th (or 6th) grade. Working on the play w/a Jewish director nearly 40 years later was an amazing experience.

[linyarai · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I read this for the "a historical non-fiction book" part of my 2018 reading challenge. I think I enjoyed it more now than I did when I read it in school, Anne's diary is a terrific reflection of all girls growing up, and the additional trials of living in close quarters with other people.

[deltaqueen50 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A classic. The diary of a Jewish Dutch girl has become a lasting statement on the atrocities and de-humanizing that was perpetrated by the Nazi's during WW II. Although never meant for other's, this private diary captures the essence of being young, on the verge of becoming a woman and what it was like to be Jewish in this very dangerous time. I would recommend this book to absolutely everyone.

[stevenjohntait · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Visiting the Anne Frank museum was the highlight of my first trip to Amsterdam.

[cougargirl1967 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Knowing the story surrounding this young girl made her writings more personal, but it wasn't necessarily an "enjoyable" read, yet the story shall remain timeless.

[readbybrit · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It feels inherently wrong to throw a rating on someone's literal diary but I'm basing it on how long it took me to get into the book and my experience reading it.I normally do not read non-fiction nor do I read things set in "historical" times, WW2 being the exception. I've wanted to read this book forever and I finally picked it up this year after a prompt for library bingo was "Read a book set in war time." and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity. However, it took me FOREVER to get into this book. It took so long to trudge through more than ten pages a time in the very beginning. When I finally did get my bearings with the book, I enjoyed it. I don't have many qualms with the content because after all, it is her diary. I found it very refreshing that Anne experienced attraction to girls, as it is not in every single version and the edited version is the most widely known. I enjoyed "watching" her grow up through her diary entries. Although it took me a while to get into the book and I read it quite slowly, I did enjoy my time with it.

[starwing-2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is Anne's relability that makes her diary so evocative and memorable. The suffering and the fallaciousness of discrimination and war is perhaps best felt and understood through the experiences of everyday person, especially the perspective of children.

[sumisbooks · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Good historical reference. A bit dry to read through in it's entirety. Interesting that it came from a teenage girl (age 13 - 15). I think this is one that everyone should read at least once.

[dariazeoli · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by this girl. One teenager affected by an unspeakable event, denied even today by some. Forced to hide from the eventual reality of concentration camps and death. And she wrote. She wanted to be a writer, and dammit, she was a writer. I cannot begin to fathom how it must have felt for Otto Frank to survive the Holocaust and to find that the rest of his family did not. All he had left were the writings of his youngest daughter. And he shared them with us. He could have curled up into a ball and let tragedy consume him, but he didn’t. He let his daughter live past her life.

When I was younger, I found Anne Frank very relateable. She worried about boys, about her relationship with her mother, complained about the adults she was forced to share close quarters with. For two years, having to worry that she, and those hiding with her, would be found and shot. And still, she had photographs of celebrities pasted on her walls; a bit of normalcy in a very unnormal world.

I remember in high school, being asked in one class or another about heroes. I said that Anne Frank was mine. A classmate of mine scoffed, and ridiculed me for picking a teenaged girl as a role model. The teacher defended me as I tried to justify my choice.

I am older (and maybe wiser) than I was then, but I wouldn’t ever disavow that choice. A young girl put into a horrible position and choosing not to let it silence her is someone to admire. A story about how our words live on long after we do? I can’t see anything wrong with respecting that.

It’s because of the story of Anne Frank, that I, as well as many others I’m sure, became aware of the horror of what happened during World War II. If relating to a young Jewish girl, seeing a piece of yourself in her, isn’t at least part of the point, what is? We all have a common thread. Hate and fear and killing others because of that hate and fear? There’s no excuse.

I still read about the Holocaust to this day. I watch movies. It is beyond my comprehension that it happened, that it was allowed to happen. That humanity can treat itself that way. I have a horrible fascination with the topic, as if someday, logic will be found in its existence.

I know that day will never come. But I am glad that the stories of those who suffered through it survive.

[soccermomknit-881753 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book. I will reread it several more times throughout my life.

[anisadara36 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Read this book for a history class I took once. I cried because I was so hoping that she would live at the end but it was not meant to happen.

[dbhart42 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Reading a girl's diary is not something I typically enjoy, particularly a tweenage girl, but it obviously is an incredibly important piece of historical literature, and a high-school english class must.

[kiwimrsmac · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Probably the first book I had to read for school. Still heartbreaking, even now. Especially during these times of unrest.

[gypsysmom_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book had a profound impact on me when I read it as a youngster. If we ever forget the horrors of the Holocaust this is one book that will bring it back. It tells the true story of the author's hiding (with her family) from the Nazis for 2 years. They could not go outside, they couldn't even move during the day for fear someone in the offices downstairs would hear them and report them. And then the diary comes to an abrupt end because someone did report them. I visited the building where Anne lived for those two years when I was in Amsterdam. The upstairs apartments have been left just as they were when the Nazis came. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

[varwenea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

“I want to go on living even after my death!” – Anne Frank, April 4, 1944. She has far exceeded her expectations.It is unnecessary to write a review of a person’s diary, especially when it’s the historical phenomenon of Anne Frank. My words here are perhaps notes more for myself than a review for my fellow LT users. Had she survived, I surmise that she would have been awarded a Nobel Peace prize, carrying on the message of peace and understanding, preventing these atrocities from repeating in the future, which is what Otto Frank did in his remaining years.About the diary version, mine is “version b” the most common variant, a paperback stocked by the book shop at the Anne Frank House; this contains the editorial passages that Anne inserted upon her re-read and wanted her diary to be thorough and to be a reference for her future book, ‘The Secret Annexe’. It also has full content including her blossoming sexuality.The diary was certainly intriguing. The first half was solid with historical notations, the specifics of living a life in hiding, and the relationships, interactions, frustrations, angst amongst those in hiding. I particularly enjoyed learning about their saintly helpers. The third quarter dragged for this reader as much of it was her pining for Peter van Daan. The last quarter contained her most mature and elaborate thoughts about war, its effects, the destruction.Despite knowing the aftermath, I cried like a faucet reading the 'Afterword' and 'The Legacy of Anne Frank'.Let’s close with these words from Anne, on July 15, 1944, shortly before they were taken on August 4, 1944:“It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I’ll be able to realize them!”

[vclarke-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Anne Frank's story is enthralling. I highly recommend this book for upper middle school and high school students. It gives a personal perspective of a young girl during World War II.