Anne Frank
Subtitle: The Diary of a Young Girl
By: translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday ; with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Garden City, N. Y., USA
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Translation of: Achterhuis
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 237
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews; Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
Other titles: The diary of a young girl
Work titles: Achterhuis.
Description: Anne Frank and her family originally lived in Germany, but during the early thirties when Hitler came to power, they migrated to Holland where for a time, they lived normal lives. Mr. Frank was actively engaged in business; the children, Margo and her younger sister Anne, attended school.

But when the Nazis occupied Holland the family, because they were Jews, were forced to flee again. For want of another refuge, they remained in Amsterdam, hiding in the abandoned half of an old office building. Anne was thirteen years old at this time. 

Soon the Franks were joined in the "Secret Annexe" by another family, Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, and their son Peter, who was about Anne's age, and by a Mr. Drussel, a dentist, and, according to Anne, rather stuffy. While fiends on the outside provided what food, clothing, and books they could spare,...
--front flap