Genre: Autobiography
Key Stage: KS3
Rating: ★★★★★
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (1947)
In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, thirteen year old Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse.
This book is the official diary of Anne Frank. At first, Anne Frank kept her diary secret, but when a politician announced that he would collect journals and diaries – accounts of the war to archive, a bright idea sprung into Anne’s glorious mind. She addresses her diary as ” Kitty” – someone she could confide in. Someone she could tell all her thoughts and feelings; her words movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death.
My thoughts: I think this book is absolutely amazing. It made my stomach churn yet filled me with happiness. It truly opened my eyes to the struggle and fear of the Jews during the war. It breaks my heart to know the outcome of what happens to Anne and her family, and I do not envy her father’s feelings when he reads and discovers his daughter’s diary. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about WWII and the suffering of Jewish people, but I also recommend this to everyone. I believe as someone who has read this book to promote it and let other people understand the suffering Anne Frank and so many endured.
If you liked this, you would love to read: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, After the War by Tom Palmer – all of which are in the LRC.
Reviewer: Mahdi, Year 10