Summary of The Diary of a Young GirlÂ
“The Diary of a Young Girl” is the diary of Anne Frank, written between 1942 and 1944, while she and her family were hiding from the Nazis behind her father’s business premises on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. In her diaries, she describes her daily life in hiding, including the tensions between the occupants and her personal growth from a 13-year-old child to an adolescent of 15. On 1 August 1944, the diaries abruptly end, just few days before Anne and her family were arrested by the Nazis and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died in 1945.
Reasons to read The Diary of a Young Girl
“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a testimony to the resilience of a young Dutch Jewish girl during the Second World War. At heart, she was an ordinary teenager, cut off from the world and forced to live in cramped conditions with her family and other people in hiding. Despite her young age, Anne’s diaries reveal her talent as a writer. Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most widely read books globally and was translated from the original Dutch into more than 70 languages.
Setting: Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Book set in the Netherlands: Amsterdam (the Anne Frank House is located on the Prinsengracht)
Original title: Het achterhuis
Year of publication: 1947
Nr of pages: 400
