Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Audio Book)

Author: Frank
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1933, due to Hitler's anti-Semitic policies, Anne's family had to move to the Netherlands. As persecution intensified, Anne's family had to go into hiding in the Secret Annex, a set of small rooms in the office building where Anne's father worked. Anne's family lived there with Mr. van Pels, the family of Anne's father's colleague, and dentist Dr. Dussel for two years. With the help of Anne's father's colleagues, they obtained information from the outside world, maintained the supply of daily necessities, and lived in seclusion. On her birthday, Anne received a gift—a diary, which she named Kitty and used to write in the form of letters. From the content of her diary, we can see that Anne was a typical teenage girl who got along well with her friends. The diary also records her growing closer to Peter and developing feelings for him during their time in hiding, as well as her views on the war, which reflect her maturity and optimism. Eventually,, tragedy struck. In August 1944, they were discovered by the Gestapo and separated and taken to different places of detention. Anne passed away in a Nazi concentration camp in March 1945. Only her father survived and he published her diary. When it was published, some parts of Anne's diary were intentionally edited, such as her feelings of coldness and dissatisfaction toward her mother, her criticism of people who were still alive at the time, and the excessive curiosity of a teenage girl toward the opposite sex. It wasn't until 1980, after Anne's father Frank and his second wife passed away, that the edited parts were made public. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" has been translated into 55 languages, its literary value recognized by readers around the world, and it has been adapted into films and plays.