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Short Summary of From the Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young girl is written By Anne Frank, published on 25 June 1947. Readers around the world know this diary as “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The story of novel sets in location, Amsterdam, and Holland.

THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL BY ANNE FRANK

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Summary of The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. OTTO H. FRANK was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. He died in 1980. MIRJAM PRESSLER is a popular writer of books for young adults. She lives in Germany.

Anne Frank kept a diary from June 12, 1942, to August 1, 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkeste in, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public. As an example, he specifically mentioned letters and diaries.

Impressed by this speech, Anne Frank decided that when the war was over she would publish a book based on her diary. She began rewriting and editing her diary, improving on the text, omitting passages she didn’t think were interesting enough and adding others from memory. At the same time, she kept up her original diary. In the scholarly work The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition (1989), Anne’s first, unedited diary is referred to as version a, to distinguish it from her second, edited diary, which is known as version b.

The last entry in Anne’s diary is dated August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the eight people hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, the two secretaries working in the building, found Anne’s diaries strewn allover the floor. Miep Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer for safekeeping.

After the war, when it became clear that Anne was dead, she gave the diaries, unread, to Anne’s father, Otto Frank. After long deliberation, Otto Frank decided to fulfill his daughter’s wish and publisher diary. He selected material from versions a and b, editing them into a shorter version later referred to as version c. Readers all over the world know this as The Diary of a fauna Girl.

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