Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Why it was purchased.

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	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Bantam, 1993 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 633 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Dear Kitty

An innocuous gift, a diary a girl treasures. She writes in it, "I will call you, Kitty." A scrawny teenage girl begins writing her way into the hearts and minds of mankind around the world. This book will be her legacy and her memorial.

Her family, refugees from Germany, immigrates to Holland where the boots of nazi oppression and psychopathic poison are not far behind. Ann's family hides from the invader in an attic where the Dutch who are the antithesis of German intolerance give them meager rations.

Ann's writing tells us about herself, and her relations with her family and the van Danns cramped in an attic always starving, and never being sure when they will be brought food, or if the police will find them. Through the turmoil of maturation from girl to woman,we learn of a girl's decency, innocence, and goodness.

All the hope for freedom is gone as the police discover the hide-out, and Ann is taken to a concentration camp where she dies two months before its liberation. Going back to the attic, her father finds her diary that will bring her immortality. Her legacy begins.

We all would have wanted to see Ann Frank and thousands of other like her live. No one, especially a young innocent girl should be treated so inhumanly without the least iota of mercy or decency. The irony is that her seemingly meaningless death among millions is what gave her life meaning, and allowed her story to be told to the world.

This book is a reminder that love and kindness survives the most vile lack of humanity. It is a testament to the human spirit.

Ann Frank would have been seventy-eight June 12, 2007.

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Why it was purchased.

I am a senior citizen with a 15-year old granddaughter. I really bought the book for her but read it before giving it to her. I had never read it before and had not seen the movie. I was in high school during Anne's time in hiding and of course I heard about her after the war ended. It seemed to be a true copy of the diary without embellishment and I appreciated the footnotes for things I had never heard of before. It's a fast read and I recommend it highly.

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a classic, and after reading this story, you will know why. This story explains the hatred from Hitler to the
Jews. This is one of the most moving novels I have ever read. Even though I only gave it 4 stars, I would really give it 4.5. It was an extremly well-written novel.

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I read this book as an adult..

Why I hadn't read this book as a middle schooler or high schooler I don't know. It was a thought provoking book.

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