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Anne FrankThe Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary Of A Young Girl was written by a thirteen

year old girl in 1942,purely bassed on her personal experiance,

when Franks family shifted from Holland to hide from

Nazis.Nazis were the Hitlers follower and thus involved in anti-

Jewish act.They tried to haress jewish in all the possible ways

they could.Franks family being a jewish family had to unwilingly

leave their house and got shifted to some place where they

would hide and remain undiscovered.Anne Frank stoped writing in 1944.The fist copy of this

book was pulished in Dutch,named Het Achterbuis in 1947

where Achter means behind & buis means House. Later

in 1952 the Dutch version was translated into English by

B.M.MOOYAART DOUBLEDAY and was published all over the

world.

When Anne Frank started writing her diary, she could

never have imagined the impact her words would have ongenerations of readers. But by the end of the 1980s, sixteen

million copies of her diary had been sold worldwide.

The writer Anne Frank started writing her diary

because she had no close friends with whom she could be

completely open & share everything she wanted, so she

invented one in the persona of "Kitty," to whom her diary

entries are addressed, and thus decided that the diary she

received for her thirteenth birthday will make the perfectfriend. Although Frank's diary contains nothing of her

experience at Bergen-Belsen, the concentration camp where

she and her sister died, it does provide an altogether human

portrait of the Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

After the Secret Annex was invaded, the pages of

Frank's diary were left scattered on the floor. Miep Gies, one of

the people who had assisted the hideaways for over two years,

discovered the pages and kept them safe. When Mr. Frankreturned as the only survivor, Miep gave him the diary. Having

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just learned that Anne had died, Mr. Frank found reading the

diary very painful. At the urging of his friends, he decided to

publish the diary after deleting certain passages he considered

unsuitable for widespread release. The Dutch version was

published in 1947, and the English translation was first

published in 1952 with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.

After Mr. Frank's death in 1980, a complete version including

the previously omitted content was released as the Definitive

Edition.

Material from Anne Frank, A Potrait in Courage

by Ernst Schnabel, translated by rRichard And Clara

Winston, which appears in the Afterward, is used

By permission of Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

On July 15, 1944, Frank writes, I feel the suffering of millions.''

She had no idea that her story would become the unlikely

testament of those millions.

Thank You