One of the most famous and memorable accounts of World War II and the Holocaust, is the story of a Dutch Jewish school girl, Anne Frank, living in Amsterdam. ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, also known as ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’, is the journal by Anne Frank. In 1942, Anne was given a diary notebook for her 13th birthday, which is when the diary starts. By this time, Germany had already invaded, and occupied the Netherlands for two years.
The book was first published in 1947, two years after Anne’s death in a concentration camp, and later became a classic. Anne called the diary Kitty. It was her true friend. She addressed many of the entries to “Dear Kitty”. The diary chronicles the next two years of Anne’s life in the cramped annexe, along with her seven co-prisoners. Anne’s last diary entry was written on August 1st, 1944. The work was eventually translated into more than 60 languages, and it was later adapted for the stage and screen.
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