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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B. M. Mooyaart (Translator)
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Devastatingly emotional and heartfelt, this book is simply a remarkably intimate and beautifully written classic. |
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Author: Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B. M. Mooyaart (Translator)
Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition
Pub. in: June, 1993
ISBN: 0553296981
Pages: 304
Measurements: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00598
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A well-known book now in print for more than 50 years; a a bestseller ranking #2,090 in books on Amazon.com as of December 5, 2006. |
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Anne Frank went into hiding, in 1942, with her parents and sister and four other people, in the sealed off back rooms of an Amsterdam office buliding, when the Nazi invaders of the Netherlands, intensified their persecution of Jews.
They were all dicovered in 1944, by the Nazis, and of the group, only Anne's father Otto Frank survived the war. Anne died in the hideous death camp at Belsen.
In this remarkably intimate and beautifully written classic, Anne documents the two years in hiding - how they survived, amusing observances about the different residents of the house, as well as her own remarkable development, such topics as her sexuality and the development of her relationship with Peter Van Daam, as well as her sparkling brilliant intellect.
She reveals the peculiarities and personalities of the people who live with her in the annexe, in a series of accounts and amusing anecdotes.
One could ask why the Nazis brought about the death of this good , intelligent and charming child. One should ask what moves man to commit such horrors. What moved the Nazis to kill over a million Jewish children. What moves people to justify the murder of Jewish children in Israel today by Arab terrorists , or to justify the monstrous tyrannies in North Korea, Red China, Zimbabwe or Iran?
The book can equip young people to answer the questions that will be thrown at them today: Why did the Nazis do what they did? Why did the people of Europe allow it to happen? Why do we need the State of Israel?
We are living in time when values are distorted, moral relativity and the inversion of the truth are the order of the day. Anti-semitism is on the march again, in the shape of genocidal hatred of Israel. It is today that it becomes so relevant, Anne Frank's word in her diary: " It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground and maintain our opinions, at a time when all all ideals are being shattered and destoyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God'. (From quoting Gary Selikow, USA)
Target readers:
General readers
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From the Publisher:
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
The original language is Dutch.
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Chicago Tribune (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardship, and passions… There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II than to reread The Diary of a Young Girl, a testament to an indestructivle nobility of spirit in the face of pure evil. |
Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's classic diary written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the "secret annex." In the end, Anne's teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil. |
Victoria (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
This book explains the life of a Jewish girl who goes into hiding with her family during the Holocaust. This book is Anne Frank's diary which explains everything that went on while her family was in hiding. She addresses each of her letters to a friend named Kitty who is not even a real person. Every girl or young women should reads this book so that they may see what it was like for a young woman during World War II. Anne, father, mother, and sister Margot live in the small attic above her father's office. One of Mr. Frank's good friend's family joins the Franks. Mr. VanDann, Mrs. VanDann, Peter, and his cat live with the Franks as the outside world is being ripped apart by the Nazis who kill each Jew that they see or send them to concentration camps. Anne explains her everyday life which includes reading, studies, and listening to the radio. This book is heartwarming and very studious for a young girl for just thirteen. Anne keeps a great attitude it's as if she was living a normal life. This book keeps reading into the stories and the days for which she lives, you world have never known that she could have much to say for never being able to go out. |
A kid's review (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
After Anne Frank turned 13, her world was turned upside-down. It was 1942 and the Germans had taken over Holland. They had started taking Jews away to concentration camps, so Anne's father Otto decided that it would be best if they went into hiding from the Nazi's. The Frank family along with the van Daan family, and Albert Dussel go into hiding in a somewhat "Secret" annex above Otto's former office. Anne can only bring mos needed items such as clothing, toiletries, and her diary. Anne writes in her diary almost every day about things happening in the annex and what she heard on the radio about the rest of the world. Sometimes, she writes about things any ordinary teenage girl would write about. Other times she would write about things very few people in the world would ever experience. Her diary geos from June 1942 to August 1944 when she was captured by the Nazi's. Anne wanted to publish her stories that she wrote in the annex including her diary. After the war Anne's father fulfilled her life long dream and published her diary.
I think this is a four star book because World war two is one of my favorite topics. It is particularly cool to learn about it from a girl who experienced it all at my age. Since she is Jewish I learned what it was like for them too. But this book is not just historical, it teaches people what girls were like, and what they thought about back in the 1940's.
I recommend this book to girls 13-16 because this is how old Anne was when she wrote in her diary. |
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