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The Diary of Anne Frank
It recorded how a growing girl to face the war and racial persecution,to seek for self growth, positioning and freedom, showing her tremendous courage and perseverance. It will arouse shock and resonance in your heart,helping you handle growing pains.
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278 pages, Hardcover
Published August 1, 2011
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Anne Frank
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Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.
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January 15, 2026
Anna Frank 13 yoshli yahudiy qiz boʻlib, fashistlardan yashirinib yurgan kunlarini kundalikka yozib borgan. Ba'zi asarlarning yozilish tarixi uning qiymatini ancha oshirib yuboradi. Mazkur kundalik butun dunyoda Injildan keyin eng koʻp mutolaa qilingan nobadiiy asar hisoblanar ekan.
Kundalik nisbatan erkin kunlar tasviri bilan boshlanib, keyin taqiq va taqiblar kuchayishi bilan davom etadi. Koʻp oʻtmay oila konslager va oʻlim xavfi tufayli yashirin boshpanaga qochishga majbur boʻladi. Shu joyida yahudiylarning kitobga boʻlgan munosabati e'tiborimni tortdi. Tasavvur qiling, har lahzada ularni oʻldirish yoki olib ketish uchun kelishlari mumkin, butun mamlakatda ular taqibga olingan, eng muhim buyumlarnigina olib tezroq yashirinishlari kerak va shu holatda 13 yoshli Annadan tortib kattalargacha, bari kitoblarni ham oʻzlari bilan olishadi. Yashirinib yotganlarida ham otasi unga ta'lim bermoqchi ekanligini yozadi Anna. Xavfli vaziyatda tashqariga chiqqan kattalar bolalar oʻqishi uchun yangi kitoblar olib kelishadi.
Aynan shu kitobni oʻqish orqali kundalik tutish inson shaxsiyati uchun qanchalik muhimligini anglash mumkin. Kundaliklarda dastlab kunlik voqea - hodisalar joy oladi, keyin esa butun dunyodan nolish boshlanadi. Hammadan norozilik koʻzga tashlanadi, hech kim sizni tushunmayotganday his qilasiz. Ammo keyin kundalikdagi fikrlar teranlasha boshlaydi....
Kundalik nisbatan erkin kunlar tasviri bilan boshlanib, keyin taqiq va taqiblar kuchayishi bilan davom etadi. Koʻp oʻtmay oila konslager va oʻlim xavfi tufayli yashirin boshpanaga qochishga majbur boʻladi. Shu joyida yahudiylarning kitobga boʻlgan munosabati e'tiborimni tortdi. Tasavvur qiling, har lahzada ularni oʻldirish yoki olib ketish uchun kelishlari mumkin, butun mamlakatda ular taqibga olingan, eng muhim buyumlarnigina olib tezroq yashirinishlari kerak va shu holatda 13 yoshli Annadan tortib kattalargacha, bari kitoblarni ham oʻzlari bilan olishadi. Yashirinib yotganlarida ham otasi unga ta'lim bermoqchi ekanligini yozadi Anna. Xavfli vaziyatda tashqariga chiqqan kattalar bolalar oʻqishi uchun yangi kitoblar olib kelishadi.
Aynan shu kitobni oʻqish orqali kundalik tutish inson shaxsiyati uchun qanchalik muhimligini anglash mumkin. Kundaliklarda dastlab kunlik voqea - hodisalar joy oladi, keyin esa butun dunyodan nolish boshlanadi. Hammadan norozilik koʻzga tashlanadi, hech kim sizni tushunmayotganday his qilasiz. Ammo keyin kundalikdagi fikrlar teranlasha boshlaydi....
March 17, 2020
**** 4.5/5
Amazing book. I found myself relating to Anne in a weird way- not because of the struggle she went through- but because despite all of this, the normality of her development as a teenage girl remained throughout. I particularly loved the descriptions of her inner happiness and however much it dimmed she knew it would never go out completely, it filled me with a sense of hope- and that is what I needed today. She also noted the difference between the “inner and outer” Anne that she presented to the world which resonated very much. I like the diary format, she was a gifted writer. The ending was abrupt- and not so much like an ending at all, however, the afterword was emotional and having been to Auschwitz-Birkenau twice now, ensures that those times are never forgotten and those who died are honoured appropriately
Amazing book. I found myself relating to Anne in a weird way- not because of the struggle she went through- but because despite all of this, the normality of her development as a teenage girl remained throughout. I particularly loved the descriptions of her inner happiness and however much it dimmed she knew it would never go out completely, it filled me with a sense of hope- and that is what I needed today. She also noted the difference between the “inner and outer” Anne that she presented to the world which resonated very much. I like the diary format, she was a gifted writer. The ending was abrupt- and not so much like an ending at all, however, the afterword was emotional and having been to Auschwitz-Birkenau twice now, ensures that those times are never forgotten and those who died are honoured appropriately
March 13, 2022
I’ve read this book many times over the years. My first reading was as a teenager and now reading it as a middle aged adult, my perspectives have changed. It causes me to think differently each time, and to think about life as well ! This was my first time listening on an audio book, and allowed me to form images in my mind while hearing a young female voice speak. It is still amazing to me the things Anne thought and wrote about, and how she laid out their experiences so well you can feel what she and her family went through, and the tension and feelings a person would have had in those situations.
January 14, 2020
This book for me was very interesting. Everyone has studied and more or less knows about world war 2 but this book shows the story of a Jewish girl and WW2 from her perspective. This book feels and is very realistic and personal. It is also a very sad and raw story. I really recommend it. It is very interesting.
November 17, 2024
The type of book you can't put down. Brings you back in time, a sad and tragic ending but life goes on and this book still lingers.
Anne's way of writing is child-like, but the way she mustered the courage to write down everything and detailed her experiences in the attic makes you feel that you're there beside her and watching as her days go by.
I'd recommend this book. A good memoir.
Anne's way of writing is child-like, but the way she mustered the courage to write down everything and detailed her experiences in the attic makes you feel that you're there beside her and watching as her days go by.
I'd recommend this book. A good memoir.
December 18, 2019
A slow start but a worthy read.
December 20, 2019
I read this book a long time ago and loved it. I recently saw the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" and it made me want to read this again. This is a pretty intense book that you won't want to put down.
January 10, 2020
Exceptional piece of writing from someone so young. I first read this as a child and now,into my 40's, I have re read it countless times..
April 25, 2025
An important book.
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