The Diary of a young girl

The Diary of A Young Girl


I selected The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank because I am really interested in learning about events that occurred during the Holocaust. The Diary of A Young Girl offers a vivid, realistic view of how a family tries to escape Nazi concentration camps. Anne’s ability to communicate her private thoughts engulfing the total emotions of the situations gives the book a human side often missed in recounts of history. I experienced gripping details of a family and a child dealing with extraordinary situations as they try to survive in hiding.
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her diary charts two years of her life from 1942 to 1944, when her family were hiding in Amsterdam from German Nazis. The diary begins just before the family retreated into their ‘Secret Annex’ and records some of the restrictions faced by the Dutch Jews under the Nazis. Frank started to write at school, and planned to become a writer. When she heard f...