The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank(1947)
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“I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank(1947)
A thirteen-year-old pins photographs of film stars to the wall of a secret annex and begins writing to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne Frank kept this diary from June 1942 to August 1944, two years of hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse while the Holocaust raged beyond the bookcase concealing the door. The entries hold everything adolescence holds: vanity, boredom, first love, furious arguments with her mother, the slow awakening of a writer finding her voice. Anne revised the diary herself, hoping to publish after the war. She did not survive Bergen-Belsen. Her father, the sole survivor, fulfilled her wish in 1947. The diary endures as the testament of a brilliant, passionately alive mind that refused, even in hiding, to stop growing.
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