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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diary of a Young Girl with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which was written while Anne was confined to a series of hidden rooms in a warehouse in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Along with her mother, father, older sister Margot and four other Jews, Anne spent two years in the “Secret Annexe” before being arrested, probably following a tip-off from an informer, and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she contracted typhus and died just weeks before the camp was liberated by the Allies. As well as recounting the hardships and fear that cast a shadow over her everyday life, her diary is a vibrant, engaging and often humorous account of family relationships, universal teenage worries and her hopes and dreams for the future. The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the bestselling books in the world, having sold millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages, and continues to touch children and adults alike over 70 years after its author’s death.

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    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
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    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateOct 8, 2015
    ISBN9782806270139
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

    GERMAN DIARIST

    Born in Frankfurt in 1929.

    Died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

    Notable works:

    The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), autobiographical novel

    Tales from the Secret Annex (1949, revised 2003), miscellaneous prose writings

    Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who has become a symbol of the persecution and extermination of Jews under the Nazi regime. Mounting anti-Semitism and the enactment of increasingly stringent anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s forced her family to emigrate from Germany to the Netherlands and eventually to go into hiding.

    Anne and seven other Jews spent two years hidden in the annexe of the building where her father worked in central Amsterdam. Her ambition was to become a writer or a journalist, and during her time in hiding she wrote not only her famous diary, but also short stories, essays and personal recollections, which were published in 1949 under the title Tales from the Secret Annex.

    The family was arrested in August 1944, probably after being denounced by an informer, and deported. Anne was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she contracted typhus and died in early 1945.

    THE DIARY OF A CONDEMNED JEWISH GIRL

    Genre: personal diary

    Reference edition: Frank, A. (2000) The Diary of a Young Girl. Trans. Massotty, S. London: Penguin.

    1st edition: 1947

    Themes: Second World War, anti-Semitism, hiding, friendship, deportation, fear

    In 1947, Otto Frank decided to publish his daughter’s diary under the title Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annexe). Unlike the vast majority of

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