The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl is a  diary written in Dutch by Anne Frank. She began it in 1942, confiding to Kitty. She wrote it while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was caught in 1944 and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  After the war, the diary was found by Anne's father, Otto Frank. He was the only known survivor of the family. The diary has now been published in more than 60 different languages. It is now considered a classic of war literature. The diary was rescued from a reject pile by cookbook publisher Judith Jones.

It was first published as Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 12 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 (The Annex: Diary Notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947. After it was translated into English as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Valentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952, it became very famous critically. It became very popular, and the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank and movie version were both based on the diary. The play was first acted in New York City. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956. The book is in several lists of the top books of the twentieth century.Goodreads Best (100) Books of the 20th Century #8; The Guardian's  (top 10) definitive book(s) of the 20th century out of 50 Best Books defining the 20th century ; National Review's List of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century  #20; The New York Public Library's Books of the Century: War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism. 1996 ;  Waterstone's Top100 Books of the 20th century, while there are several editions of the book. The publishers made a children's edition and an adult which is thicker. There are hardcovers and paperbacks.  #26 It discusses the themes of sharing and selfishness in the war, about how someone can be different on the inside and the outside, and about the loneliness of growing up.

Related pages

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
Memory of the World Programme

 References 

 Other websites 

 Anne Frank House website
 Anne Frank Trust UK website
 , Jon Blair, 1995. (DVD)
 Quicktime video. Miep Gies describes giving Anne Frank's papers to Otto Frank
 Quicktime interview with Otto Frank's second wife, about the publication of Anne Frank's diary
 Anne's manuscripts
 Article about the publication of Het Achterhius, by The Anne Frank House
 Online exhibition of Anne Frank's manuscripts 
 Article on Anne Frank the writer
 Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Sayana Ser  from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Category:1947 books
Category:Anne Frank
Category:Pulitzer Prize winners
Category:Diaries
Category:Dutch literature