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The Diary Of A Young Girl starts two days before Anne Frank’s thirteenth birthday. The Nazis had seized the Netherlands, and her family were planning to go into hiding, as they were Jewish. Twenty-two days after she started her diary, Anne, her mother and father and her sister Margo, along with a few other people take shelter in a secret annex of her father’s office building.
Anne Frank records daily events, her personal experiences and her feelings in her journal for the next two years. The first one covers the period from June 14, 1942, to December 6, 1942, and the second volume covers the period from December 22, 1943, to April 17, 1944. The original journal for the missing period is believed to have been lost.
A broadcast by the Dutch Government in 1944, calling for the preservation of any document recording personal experiences during the war as a record for future generations, inspired the young girl to rewrite her personal journal. This revised journal covers the missing period between the two original journals.
It is the record of a young teenage girl with all the longings, expectations, and attitudes that adolescence brings with it. Her longing for a close personal friend was not fulfilled as she had to go into hiding. But, she assigns this role to her diary, in which she pours out her heart and soul. In the initial journal, she addresses the entries to various friends, but eventually all her entries are addressed to a girl named Kitty.
The Diary Of A Young Girl is a record of a young girl’s experience during one of the worst periods in human history. She is forced to live in hiding by living in a confined space in fear for her life, but soon, she and her family are betrayed and taken away to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she eventually dies. Reading this book makes every reader, irrespective of age or race, do an introspection of themselves and on humanity in general. This diary is so powerful that it leaves a deep impact on the mind of its readers.
ISBN - 9788183520645
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Pages : 312
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