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The Diary of a Young Girl

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The Diary of a Young Girl	comment	One of the most famous and memorable accounts of the German occupation during World War II, The Diary of a Young Girlnote Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex) in the original Dutch, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, was the title given to the edited version of the diaries of Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 â€“ February or March 1945), a Jewish German schoolgirl who ended up one of the most well known and emblematic victims of The Holocaust.Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in Nazi Germany after Adolf Hitler seized power and settled in the capital city of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas to emigrate, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands (and most of Western Europe) in 1940.At first, the Franks tried to live out the occupation, but as the genocidal intents of the Nazis became clear, Anne's father Otto built a secret shelter in the building where he worked (by that point, the country's borders were closed and travel for Jews was tightly regulated; leaving Amsterdam would have been impossible). In 1942, Anne was given a diary notebook for her 13th birthday.On the 6th of July 1942, Anne's sister Margot received relocation orders to enter a "work" camp. The Franks, along with the Van Pels family and another Jewish friend, immediately moved into what would become known as the Secret Annex.The rest of Anne's diary chronicles the next two years of her life in the cramped Annex along with her fellow fugitives. The daily routine consisted of absolute silence during the day, since the business was still running below them, blissfully unaware of the Annex or its occupants. There was relatively more freedom during the night, though they could not leave the building at all. Their only contact with the outside was a contraband radio and a few co-conspirators who brought them weekly supplies.As human nature would dictate, locking eight people in half of a townhouse under such stressful situations meant that each of the occupants proceeded to get on everyone else's nerves. The diary abounds with morbidly funny tales of the occupants arguing over rations, radio channels, and people's cooking. They even argued over bathroom privileges, since any small mistake — such as a toilet flushing at the wrong time — could get everyone killed.On top of the domestic melodrama, Anne also wrote about the teenage rebellion she could never act on, her confusion over puberty and budding sexuality, her deepest thoughts and philosophy, and her burgeoning romance with the handsome Peter van Pels. The diary can sometimes sound like the writing of any teenage girl, albeit an insightful and interesting girl with excellent diction and writing skills, if you forget the whole hiding-from-the-Nazis situation.The last entry in the diary was written on the 1st of August 1944. Three days later, the GrÃ¼ne Polizei stormed the Annex. Everyone inside was sent to a concentration camp; Anne herself was sent to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in February or March 1945 — barely a month before that camp was liberated.Of those who lived in the Annex, only Otto Frank survived the Holocaust and returned to Amsterdam. Family friend and co-conspirator Miep Gies managed to save all of Anne's papers from the ransacked house, then convinced Otto that the world needed to know about what had happened. The book was first published in Dutch in 1947, then translated to English in 1952, and it has never left the public consciousness since. If you pull someone out of a crowd and ask them to name a Holocaust victim, they will probably name Anne Frank.1.5 million young children were murdered (shot, starved, gassed and etc.) in the Holocaust, but that is too big for the "average person" to mentally process, so Anne is used as a figure in popular culture to represent all of them. The official Auschwitz Museum is working hard to remember the individual children through its social media accounts. See an example here with French Jewish child Gina Goldstein who was gassed upon her arrival at Auschwitz not long after her sixth birthday.The best known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) The Diary of Anne Frank. There is also the 2001 miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story and the 2021 Magical Realism animated movie Where Is Anne Frank. The 2023 miniseries A Small Light features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The diary does not begin with her family hiding in the attic. It begins with a girl receiving a blank diary for her thirteenth birthday, having a party, attending school, describing her friendsâ€¦
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_1fd0b1d7	comment	Big Sister Worship: At times, Anne feels incapable of measuring up to Margot's smarts & resents the adults treating her with more respect while criticising Anne's faults.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Anne wrote about her difficult relationship with her mother—compounded by the fact that they were all cooped up together and, well, Anne was 13 or 14—but also regretted it: "I said to myself, 'Anne, is that really you talking about hate? Oh, Anne, how could you?'" Ultimately it came down to a simple personality clash, and later the two grew closer. Mrs. Frank ultimately gave her life for Anne.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Anne addresses the diary as 'Kitty', talking to it like it is capable of listening to her.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The entire diary is an exercise in this. Anne feels isolated and unable to express herself, so she writes her hidden thoughts in there. Anne also writes more about the other residents' personalities later in the diary. For example, in 1944, she regrets her previous characterizations of her mother and sister as unnecessarily mean.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: In the original Dutch publication, the diary ends with the line "Ici s'achÃ¨ve le journal. Anne Frank est morte en Mars 1945 au camp de Bergen-Belsen." In English, "Here is the end of the diary. Anne Frank died on March 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen camp." Peter is fond of gratuitous foreign language in general, especially French.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Towards the end of her diary, where she has already been stuck in the Annex for years and experienced much of the horrors of WWII, Anne writes:
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_4a9f514d	comment	Sacred First Kiss: Anne regards the date of her first kiss with Peter as a very important day in her life (even though it was a kiss on the cheek, not on the mouth).
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Of those who hid in the Annex, only Otto Frank survived the war.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_4e7c4536	comment	In the original Dutch publication, the diary ends with the line "Ici s'achÃ¨ve le journal. Anne Frank est morte en Mars 1945 au camp de Bergen-Belsen." In English, "Here is the end of the diary. Anne Frank died on March 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen camp."
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_8ebe7e03	comment	13th Birthday Milestone: Anne Frank was given her diary on her 13th birthday, where she would begin writing about her life in pre-war Amsterdam, before documenting her time in hiding from the Nazis.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_a48ffb8	comment	Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub: The Secret Annex did not come with a bath, though it did have running water, so the occupants had to bathe in a tin tub. Since everyone has different ideas of acceptable privacy, they all used different rooms in the house.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_ac06a60c	comment	Think of the Children!: In an entry dated 21st September 1942, Anne writes about a novel circulating amongst the adults (including then 17-year old Margot) that has been forbidden to her, apparently because of its smutty nature.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: One of the most known real life examples. The diary was written during WW2 in Amsterdam, Netherlands occupied by Nazi Germany where many Jews were persecuted. Because Anne's family were Jewish, they were forced into hiding into a small room in a house to avoid the Nazis. In order to pass the time living in a small room everyday, Anne was given a diary which she used to document her everyday life in hiding.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Otto devises a technique of letting his friend know what's happened to him by sending an apparently-innocuous business letter to a supplier in the province of South Zeeland, written in such a way as to have the reply letter sent back in a return-addressed envelope that accompanied it. When it gets back to the office, Otto will replace the letter with his own & deliver it to his friend. The thinking is that the friend will suppose they have fled the country, or at the very least they will be hard to find as the province is closed-off.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Anne mentioned in her journal how she was attracted to a (female) friend, and even was aroused by the female form, "that it was so beautiful" it made her cry. This part was edited out, for her privacy or the anti-LGBT stigma of the time. Later unedited versions have often been banned in schools.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_bb76c854	comment	Classified Information: Miep Gies admitted that, had she read the diary when she retrieved it, she would have to have destroyed it, as this contained the names of all five of the helpers as well as of their black-market suppliers.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Mrs. Van Daan and Mr. Dussel tell Anne that she has been exposed to too much mature information at a young age, and so will be jaded as an adult, and that she had better hurry if she wants to catch a husband, since everything later on in life will be a disappointment to her. Anne is so enraged by these remarks that she writes a diary entry about Mrs. Van Daan so abusive that she later feels compelled to write an apologetic addendum - even though she has no expectation that anyone will ever read her calumny.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_e0723cbb	comment	You Talk Too Much!: Anne has to write an essay titled "The Chatterbox" because she keeps talking in class (quickly followed by "An Incorrigible Chatterbox" and "Quack, Quack, Quack, said Mistress Chatterback"). This becomes Serious Business when she has to remain quiet for long periods of time in the Secret Annex.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_e236af66	comment	Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In an early entry (the 20th of June 1942), Anne writes: "it seems to me that neither I—nor for that matter anyone else—will be interested in the unbosomings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl". In March 1944, she hears on the news that members of the Dutch government are interested in preserving wartime letters and diaries. She writes that her diary won't be much use to them and might as well be titled "the unbosomings of an ugly duckling".
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Anne's diary ends abruptly, since she obviously couldn't continue it in the labor camps both she and her family were sent to.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted at the start. Twice in the same entry, in fact. First, there's a boy mentioned named Herman Koopman, who shares his first name with Mr. Van Pels/Van Daan. After that, she mentions having a crush on a boy named Peter, months before she fell in love with the Peter in the Annex. Anne lampshades their shared names, and commented that itâ€™s like the two Peters combined into one in her mind.
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The Diary of a Young Girl / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The older translation is rife with this. Anne once gives Mrs. Van Daan a toilet water based shampoo. At first it seems the gift is pay back against her, but toilet water was meant to refer to perfume (as in "eau d'toilette"). The classic one. The translator uses 'gay' to mean "joyous" and 'queer' to mean "strange". This is the only example that's shared with the 50s translation and 90s translation: Anne calls her platonic friends "girlfriends", but given that Anne wrote about wanting to touch one of her friend's breasts, this might be accidentally fitting.
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