{"product_id":"the-diary-of-a-young-girl-isbn-9780385480338","title":"The Diary of a Young Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE DEFINITIVE EDITION \u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdated for the 75th Anniversary of the \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.“A truly remarkable book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most moving personal documents to come out of World War II.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne’s dreams, irritations, hardship, and passions. . . . There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II than to reread \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Young Girl,\u003c\/i\u003e a testament to an indestructible nobility of spirit in the face of pure evil.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust . . . remains astonishing and excruciating.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How brilliantly Anne Frank captures the self-conscious alienation and naïve self-absorption of adolescence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eANNE FRANK was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.June 12, 1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComment added by Anne on September 28, 1942:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo far you truly have been a great source of comfort to me, and so has Kitty, whom I now write to regularly. This way of keeping a diary is much nicer, and now I can hardly wait for those moments when I'm able to write in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyou.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh, I'm so glad I brought you along!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunday, June 14, 1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. (I went along when you were bought, but that doesn't count.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Friday, June 12, I was awake at six o'clock, which isn't surprising, since it was my birthday. But I'm not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. When I couldn't wait any longer, I went to the dining room, where Moortje (the cat) welcomed me by rubbing against my legs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then tothe living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents. Then a bouquet of roses, some peonies and a potted plant. From Daddy and Mama I got a blue blouse, a game, a bottle of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003egrape juice, which to my mind tastes a bit like wine (after all, wine is made from grapes), a puzzle, a jar of cold cream, 2.50 guilders and a gift certificate for two books. I got another book as well, Camera Obscura (but Margot already has it, so I exchanged mine for something else), a platter of homemade cookies (which I made myself, of course, since I've become quite an expert at baking cookies), lots of candy and a strawberry tart from Mother. And a letter from Grammy, right on time, but of course that was just a coincidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Hanneli came to pick me up, and we went to school. During recess I passed out cookies to my teachers and my class, and then it was time to get back to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ework. I didn't arrive home until five, since I went to gym with the rest of the class. (I'm not allowed to take part because my shoulders and hips tend to get dislocated.) As it was my birthday, I got to decide which game my classmates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewould play, and I chose volleyball. Afterward they all danced around me in a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecircle and sang \"Happy Birthday.\" When I got home, Sanne Ledermann was already there. Ilse Wagner, Hanneli Goslar and Jacqueline van Maarsen came home with me after gym, since we're in the same class. Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends. People who saw us together used to say, \"There goes Anne, Hanne and Sanne.\" I only met Jacqueline van Maarsen when I started at the Jewish Lyceum, and now she's my best friend. Ilse is Hanneli's best friend, and Sanne goes to another school and has friends there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey gave me a beautiful book, Dutch Sagas and Legends, but they gave me Volume II by mistake, so I exchanged two other books for Volume I. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle, Aunt Stephanie a darling brooch and Aunt Leny a terrific book: Daisy Goes to the Mountains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonday, June 15, 1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had my birthday party on Sunday afternoon. The Rin Tin Tin movie was a big hit with my classmates. I got two brooches, a bookmark and two books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'll start by saying a few things about my school and my class, beginning with the students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetty Bloemendaal looks kind of poor, and I think she probably is. She lives on some obscure street in West Amsterdam, and none of us know where it is. She does very well at school, but that's because she works so hard, not because she's so smart. She's pretty quiet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline van Maarsen is supposedly my best friend, but I've never had a real friend. At first I thought Jacque would be one, but I was badly mistaken.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD.Q.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitials have been assigned at random to those persons who prefer to remain anonymous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e is a very nervous girl who's always forgetting things, so the teachers keep assigning her extra homework as punishment. She's very kind, especially to G.Z.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE.S. talks so much it isn't funny. She's always touching your hair or fiddling with your buttons when she asks you something. They say she can't stand me, but I don't care, since I don't like her much either.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenny Mets is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, except that she talks in a loud voice and is really childish when we're playing outdoors. Unfortunately, Henny has a girlfriend named Beppy who's a bad influence on her because she's dirty and vulgar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ.R.--I could write a whole book about her. J. is a detestable, sneaky, stuck-up, two-faced gossip who thinks she's so grown-up. She's really got Jacque under her spell, and that's a shame. J. is easily offended, bursts into tears at the slightest thing and, to top it all off, is a terrible show-off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss J. always has to be right. She's very rich, and has a closet full of the most adorable dresses that are way too old for her. She thinks she's gorgeous, but she's not. J. and I can't stand each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she's extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something. Ilse likes me a lot. She's very smart, but lazy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHanneli Goslar, or Lies as she's called at school, is a bit on the strange side. She's usually shy--outspoken at home, but reserved around other people. She blabs whatever you tell her to her mother. But she says what she\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethinks, and lately I've come to appreciate her a great deal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNannie van Praag-Sigaar is small, funny and sensible. I think she's nice. She's pretty smart. There isn't much else you can say about Nannie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEefje de Jong is, in my opinion, terrific. Though she's only twelve, she's quite the lady. She acts as if I were a baby. She's also very helpful, and I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elike her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG.Z. is the prettiest girl in our class. She has a nice face, but is kind of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edumb. I think they're going to hold her back a year, but of course I haven't\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etold her that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComment added by Anne at a later date:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo my great surprise, G.Z. wasn't held back a year after all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd sitting next to G.Z. is the last of us twelve girls, me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a lot to be said about the boys, or maybe not so much after all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Coster is one of my many admirers, but pretty much of a pest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSallie Springer has a filthy mind, and rumor has it that he's gone all the way. Still, I think he's terrific, because he's very funny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmiel Bonewit is G.Z.'s admirer, but she doesn't care. He's pretty boring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRob Cohen used to be in love with me too, but I can't stand him anymore. He's an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof who has an awfully high opinion of himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax van de Velde is a farm boy from Medemblik, but a decent sort, as Margot would say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Koopman also has a filthy mind, just like Jopie de Beer, who's a terrible flirt and absolutely girl-crazy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo Blom is Jopie de Beer's best friend, but has been ruined by his dirty mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbert de Mesquita came from the Montessori School and skipped a grade. He's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ereally smart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo Slager came from the same school, but isn't as smart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRu Stoppelmon is a short, goofy boy from Almelo who transferred to this school in the middle of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC.N. does whatever he's not supposed to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacques Kocernoot sits behind us, next to C., and we (G. and I) laugh ourselves silly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Schaap is the most decent boy in our class. He's nice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWerner Joseph is nice too, but all the changes taking place lately have made him too quiet, so he seems boring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam Salomon is one of those tough guys from across the tracks. A real brat. (Admirer!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppie Riem is pretty Orthodox, but a brat too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, June 20, 1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paper has more patience than people.\" I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding. Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a \"diary,\" unless I should ever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efind a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow I'm back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don't have a friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-year-old girl is completely alone in the world. And I'm not. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. I have a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me and whosometimes have to resort to using a broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. This is why I've started the diary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewant the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I'd better provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy father, the most adorable father I've ever seen, didn't marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister Margot was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1926. I was born on June 12, 1929. I lived in Frankfurt until I was four. Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam. My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI started right away at the Montessori nursery school. I stayed there until I was six, at which time I started first grade. In sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Kuperus, the principal. At the end of the year we were both in tears as we said aheartbreaking farewell, because I'd been accepted at the Jewish Lyceum, where Margot also went to school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws. After the pogroms in 1938 my two uncles (my mother's brothers) fled Germany, finding safe refuge in North America. My elderly grandmother came to live with us. She was seventy-three years old at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use streetcars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 p.m.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.; Jews were forbidden to go to theaters, movies or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields; Jews were forbidden to go rowing; Jews were forbidden to take part in any athletic activity in public; Jews were forbidden to sit in their\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003egardens or those of their friends after 8 p.m.; Jews were forbidden to visit Christians in their homes; Jews were required to attend Jewish schools, etc. You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on. Jacque always said to me, \"I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1941 Grandma got sick and had to have an operation, so my birthday passed with little celebration. In the summer of 1940 we didn't do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland. Grandma died in January1942. No one knows how often I think of her and still love her. This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the others, and Grandma's candle was lit along with the rest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four of us are still doing well, and that brings me to the present date of June 20, 1942, and the solemn dedication of my diary. 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