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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 25, 2010
    ISBN9780739368152
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    • 5/5
      Anne Frank is my hero too.So full of love and hope and a genuine belief in the goodness of others.I think not of the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ~ Annelies Frank What a courageous girl.
    • 1/5
      I read this in grade 8 and grade 9. I have never really finished it. Even though it is an fascinating piece of history it is really boring.
    • 2/5
      Dont recommend for 10-12 age group - its a little long and boring for them. They all thought this was a hard book.
    • 5/5
      Her words continue to haunt me, and the maturity she exhibited at such a young age astounds me.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Visiting the Anne Frank museum was the highlight of my first trip to Amsterdam.
    • 3/5
      It's hard to believe that this happened just 50 years ago. Its amazing what human beijngs are capable of.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      The book that humanized what was lost in the holocaust.
    • 5/5
      There's positively nothing negative to say about this book. It's astonishing (and depressing). Anne Frank was an amazing writer for such a young girl.
    • 4/5
      This is the journal of a young Jewish girl in Holland, during WWII. Her family planned that they would disappear to escape the Nazi roundups of Jews. She writes in her journal detailing the daily events when they were hiding. It was published after the war.This is a reread for me, about 50 years later than the first time I read it. What I noticed is that teenagers are the same no matter the time or time in history, though that doesn’t lessen the impact of the narrative, but maybe enhances it. This is a historical document that should be read and reread so we don’t fall into similar traps of the past.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      I don't know how I managed to get this far in life without reading Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. I've even been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam but I had not read the diary. I finally got around to it this summer. I listened to the audio recording of the definitive edition, which includes several pages that were purposely omitted from its initial publication. Anne went through puberty during her time in hiding. Her diary transcends the bounds of time and space, documenting the rites of passage of teens in every time and place. Anne writes of conflict with her mother and older sister, of the joys and despair of first love, of her dreams for her future and her life's work. Although her life was tragically short, she fulfilled one of her dreams. Through her diary, she achieved worldwide and lasting fame as an author. Like many readers before me, I grieve for what might have been and the many more books that were never written.
    • 3/5
      Uiteraard zeer interessant, vanuit diverse invalhoek: de jodenvervolging, maar ook de ontwikkeling van een joods meisje tot vrouw. Minder diepgaand dan Etty Hillesum, maar net misschien daarom veel "echter"
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      Unlike any of the other books I have reviewed, The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, is a diary, written from Anne's point of view. The Frank Family (Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne) was a Jewish family living in the time of World War II. Initially living in Frankfurt, the Franks were forced to move out of the heart of Germany to ensure their safety. In Amsterdam, they had set up a 'Secret Annex' on the third floor of Otto Frank's office and moved in with a couple other refugees. For months, the Franks and the refugees hid from the Nazis, who eventually took over the Netherlands. The Franks had to adhere to very strict rules: no one was to make a sound during the day and all windows had to be blacked out -- no one could open them. The Franks and the refugees hid successfully for over two years, but they were eventually betrayed. Anne was sent to Auschwitz, one of the worst German Concentration Camps. Tragically, Anne dies, not of the gas showers, but of typhus. Her greatest dream was to become a well known author, and thanks to her diary, her dream is fulfilled. Millions of people have read her diary in dozens of translations.The reason why I picked up The Diary of a Young Girl was because my family and I were traveling to Amsterdam to see her 'Secret Annex.' This book is not a light, easy read. Anne Frank spills herself out onto the pages of her diary. She expressed herself more than she ever did to her parents. In the diary, you can really hear Anne's own words as you read. I am almost 13, the same age as Anne. It is very interesting to put myself in her shoes and see what it was like. I very much recommend her diary to teens who are interested in history, action, and suspense!
    • 5/5
      I recently re-read this, as I'd done a display about Anne and her family in the school Library. Designing the display made me very sad, so I went back to Anne's own words.As an adult reading the diary, it's amazing how self-aware Anne is; you can see her growing up as she writes, and more than that, you can see her noticing her own development. Anne's appeal is perhaps because she was both an ordinary teenager, and at the same time a very unusually clear-eyed individual.It is, of course, impossible to read the diary without the constant shadow of Anne's future in mind. Although this is tragic, it also highlights the beauty and creativity of her brief life. I am encouraged that so many of the girls at school read the diary, and feel that they know this courageous, curious and exuberant young woman. She certainly achieved her ambition to become a writer, at the same time utterly defeating the Nazi's attempts to silence her.
    • 5/5
      Heartbreaking.
    • 5/5
      Probably the first book I had to read for school. Still heartbreaking, even now. Especially during these times of unrest.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      Required reading in middle school that I have since re-read multiple times. I consider this one to be a book that everyone should read as it truly gives readers a feel for the life of a Jewish hideaway - told from the perspective of someone young enough to be quite honest.
    • 5/5
      To read Anne Frank describing her thoughts and feelings while going through this horrible time for any human being is heartbreaking.So heartbreaking yet so important.This book is a classic. It can help you to understand what the holocaust meant to those caught up in it.Being the real story of a real person, a person who did not survive, it is very moving and sad.c
    • 5/5
      A remarkable piece of writing by a young teen age girl living through part of a remarkably tragic era: Anne Frank's diary reveals her evolving mental and physical maturation whilst also displaying her ability to seemingly flourish in spite of the most restrictive and nerve-racking of circumstances for any young individual to experience.This is not the Diary of the Holocaust - as some dimwits in their reviews try to lump it with - it is the written word of a child about a personal set of appallingly claustrophobic circumstances in which she finds herself and thus it expresses every sort of emotion through her eyes concerning extremely close confinement, shortages of food, clothing, entertainment, social inter-action, even fresh air, and the many other things a normal teenage life would take for granted. Through all of it the character and grace of Anne Frank dominates the pages and adds to the History of Humanity.
    • 5/5
      Read this the week before visiting the Anne Frank house. Of course it's coloured by the knowledge of what was to come and there are several quotes in the diary that seem innocently prophetic, but what was most striking was the intelligence and awareness in one so young. There is much in the diary about herself being the most hard done by and being a victim to the unreasonableness of some of the adults in the annex. However, I saw in an interview with Otto Frank that she was the most unreasonable and the hardest to live with! That made me smile as a certain precociousness does come through in the book. After reading this you can only think of all the other holocaust victims who equally had their own lives, thoughts and feelings.
    • 5/5
      Descriptive Diary of Anne Frank. I learned about the struggles that many faced during the Holocaust.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 3/5
      Uiteraard zeer interessant, vanuit diverse invalhoek: de jodenvervolging, maar ook de ontwikkeling van een joods meisje tot vrouw. Minder diepgaand dan Etty Hillesum, maar net misschien daarom veel "echter"
    • 5/5
      Absolutely a must-read.