The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Available on Amazon

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Genre - Historical Germany Biographies, Jewish Holocaust History, Jewish Biographies
Format - Paperback
Pages -337

"I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise. people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and drown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over." - Anne Frank Wednesday, May 3, 1944

*Amazon Blurb*

In 1942, with the 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, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” 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 surprisingly humorous, 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.

*My Review* 

This book is just amazing. As you read you can actually see the change in Anne. She becomes so mature in such a short amount of time. The fact that a young child was able to not go crazy in the years they spent in hiding is simply shocking to me. No going outside, not knowing day by day if you're going to be captured, if you will have enough food to eat and everything else they had to worry about. I don't know any kids today that would have been able to follow such strict rules for so long.
I posted an excerpt from the book that really hit me. The fact that a child so young and in the year 1944 basically described what is still going on today made me sad.
The worse part of this book for me was the sudden ending. I realize that they believe she died in February or March of 1945, but I feel like her life really ended on August 1, 1944 when she wrote her last diary entry. I would prefer to think of it this way, instead of thinking about the horrible conditions she live in during the period in between.