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Anne Frank: A History for Today
Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.
94 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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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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December 6, 2018
Unforgettable!
My friend and I got to visit my brother in Paris, when he lived there a few years.
We planned a trip to the Netherlands to visit Amsterdam. We first went to the Van Gough Museum then on to “The Hiding Place” of Anne Frank and her family and friends.
When we got inside, we saw the hidden staircase. Walked upstairs and saw Anne’s magazine pictures she had tacked to her bedroom wall. It just hit me how young she was. How innocent.
Around the corner, we saw her and her sister’s growth where her parents had marked the walk their ages and heights. It wall all I could do to not start crying.
Then we went into another room and watched videos of Jewish people herded into cattle cars; on their way to the concentration camps. I lost it and sobbed loudly, tears streaming down my face. The other tourists looked at me startled but I couldn’t control my deep, deep sadness.
Finally, made it through the rest of the exhibition down to the museum store. I bought this book and two others.
When we got back to our hotel room, I had to read this book. My brother and friend went to see the red light district of Amsterdam but I wasn’t in the mood. I had to read all these books. When they got back, I was still reading but they were ready to head for bed and turn the lights out.
So I got a pillow and towel and finished reading through the night in the bathtub.
I treasure this and the other books I bought that night.
My friend and I got to visit my brother in Paris, when he lived there a few years.
We planned a trip to the Netherlands to visit Amsterdam. We first went to the Van Gough Museum then on to “The Hiding Place” of Anne Frank and her family and friends.
When we got inside, we saw the hidden staircase. Walked upstairs and saw Anne’s magazine pictures she had tacked to her bedroom wall. It just hit me how young she was. How innocent.
Around the corner, we saw her and her sister’s growth where her parents had marked the walk their ages and heights. It wall all I could do to not start crying.
Then we went into another room and watched videos of Jewish people herded into cattle cars; on their way to the concentration camps. I lost it and sobbed loudly, tears streaming down my face. The other tourists looked at me startled but I couldn’t control my deep, deep sadness.
Finally, made it through the rest of the exhibition down to the museum store. I bought this book and two others.
When we got back to our hotel room, I had to read this book. My brother and friend went to see the red light district of Amsterdam but I wasn’t in the mood. I had to read all these books. When they got back, I was still reading but they were ready to head for bed and turn the lights out.
So I got a pillow and towel and finished reading through the night in the bathtub.
I treasure this and the other books I bought that night.
November 14, 2018
Betapa besarnya impak sebuah catatan diari dapat diteladani melalui kisah di sebalik penghasilan diari Anne Frank. Diari pada waktu Perang Dunia Kedua itu merupakan sumber primer dalam merakam tragedi penindasan Kaum Nazi (anti-semitik) terhadap bangsa Yahudi.
Tidak cukup dengan boikot, pemulauan, pelabelan dan pengasingan di sekolah dan aktiviti seharian, golongan kelainan upaya juga turut mendapat nasib yang sama. Waktu keluar rumah (daripada kuarantin) pula diterhadkan hanya sejam sahaja pada waktu petang.
Buku nipis yang penuh dengan foto penting berdiskripsi ini merupakan cubaan penulis untuk menghimpunkan foto-foto penting yang melatari politik Nazi pasca kekalahan Jerman pada Perang Dunia Kedua. Buku ini juga memuatkan kata-kata daripada kenalan Anne Frank sendiri yang sempat hidup bersamanya dan sempat menceritakan semula latar genting yang berlaku pada waktu itu.
Anne Frank mula menulis diarinya itu sewaktu usianya 13 tahun dan para pembaca pasti akan malu apabila mendapati betapa minat Anne Frank yang tinggi untuk belajar geometri, arithmetik dan sejarah dalam keadaan genting yang sentiasa diburu oleh Kaum Nazi.
Walaupun Anne Frank dan sebahagian lagi pelarian Yahudi (jumlahnya sekitar 500 000 yang meliputi 1% sahaja daripada warga Jerman) telah berhijrah ke Netherlands, mereka sentiasa diburu sehinggakan mereka terpaksa mencari lubuk persembunyian di Secret Annex. Jangan ingat lubuk itu selamat 100%, kerana terdapat ramai juga pembelot yang tamakkan mata wang lalu memecahkan rahsia lubuk mereka sehingga menggadaikan teman-teman mereka.
Anne Frank pada akhir riwayatnya meninggal dunia kerana penyakit typhus dan diari ini kemudiannya dijumpai oleh ayahnya, Otto Frank dan dibukukan. Terdapat banyak juga siri percubaan berkepentingan yang ingin menafikan keaslian (authenticity) diari itu sehingga ia memakan hampir 41 tahun kajian saintifik (1945-1986) dan akhirnya ia terbukti asli dan diterjemahkan kepada lebih 55 bahasa di seluruh dunia.
Apa yang sangat menyentuh hati pembaca apabila membaca buku ini ialah apabila melihat foto-foto manusia yang kebuluran, kurus keding (cachexia), mati disebabkan penyakit dan membaca pesan suci murni kanak-kanak kecil berjiwa besar ini, "Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?".
Tidak cukup dengan boikot, pemulauan, pelabelan dan pengasingan di sekolah dan aktiviti seharian, golongan kelainan upaya juga turut mendapat nasib yang sama. Waktu keluar rumah (daripada kuarantin) pula diterhadkan hanya sejam sahaja pada waktu petang.
Buku nipis yang penuh dengan foto penting berdiskripsi ini merupakan cubaan penulis untuk menghimpunkan foto-foto penting yang melatari politik Nazi pasca kekalahan Jerman pada Perang Dunia Kedua. Buku ini juga memuatkan kata-kata daripada kenalan Anne Frank sendiri yang sempat hidup bersamanya dan sempat menceritakan semula latar genting yang berlaku pada waktu itu.
Anne Frank mula menulis diarinya itu sewaktu usianya 13 tahun dan para pembaca pasti akan malu apabila mendapati betapa minat Anne Frank yang tinggi untuk belajar geometri, arithmetik dan sejarah dalam keadaan genting yang sentiasa diburu oleh Kaum Nazi.
Walaupun Anne Frank dan sebahagian lagi pelarian Yahudi (jumlahnya sekitar 500 000 yang meliputi 1% sahaja daripada warga Jerman) telah berhijrah ke Netherlands, mereka sentiasa diburu sehinggakan mereka terpaksa mencari lubuk persembunyian di Secret Annex. Jangan ingat lubuk itu selamat 100%, kerana terdapat ramai juga pembelot yang tamakkan mata wang lalu memecahkan rahsia lubuk mereka sehingga menggadaikan teman-teman mereka.
Anne Frank pada akhir riwayatnya meninggal dunia kerana penyakit typhus dan diari ini kemudiannya dijumpai oleh ayahnya, Otto Frank dan dibukukan. Terdapat banyak juga siri percubaan berkepentingan yang ingin menafikan keaslian (authenticity) diari itu sehingga ia memakan hampir 41 tahun kajian saintifik (1945-1986) dan akhirnya ia terbukti asli dan diterjemahkan kepada lebih 55 bahasa di seluruh dunia.
Apa yang sangat menyentuh hati pembaca apabila membaca buku ini ialah apabila melihat foto-foto manusia yang kebuluran, kurus keding (cachexia), mati disebabkan penyakit dan membaca pesan suci murni kanak-kanak kecil berjiwa besar ini, "Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?".
August 23, 2019
This is a good accompaniment for anyone reading Anne's Dairy as it has good, though brief, information about the events which lead up to the ride of Hitler and that National Socialist Party and the war. Also there are lots of good pictures and information that helps the reader soon a bigger picture within which to place the information obtained while reading Anne's Diary.
September 11, 2020
I think this was a book sold at the Anne Frank house museum. It's only 94 pages but has an ISBN nbr, so I'm counting it!! It's been a long time since I read the Diary of Anne Frank and I found this "book" informative putting everything into perspective. Very sad times, and this was in The Netherlands, not even Germany!
August 31, 2017
Sólo una o dos veces en la vida, dos personas se miran con una #mirada que no puede describirse con palabras. (Miep Gies)
September 8, 2025
Picked up this little book at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam a few years ago after a tour, just reread it today, still so hard to comprehend
February 13, 2017
I love this book because of all the history
June 16, 2017
I got this when I went to a touring exhibit in 2002 I think it was. I remember for my birthday that year I made my parents take me on a road trip to Hutchinson, Kansas b/c that's the closest the exhibit was coming.
December 22, 2016
This small book, a companion to a traveling expedition, is filled with great historical photos. It also contains an amazing amount of information- a great young adult book or for those not as familiar with the story
August 10, 2016
small book I purchased at Anne Frank Museum. the photos were very small.
May 14, 2014
Brief and basic overview that accompanied the Anne Frank Center USA's exhibit "Anne Frank: A History for Today."
October 5, 2014
Vizuāls materiāls vienmēr noder, jo uztverams.
May 20, 2024
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