The definitive Holocaust story...
You certainly have heard of it...but you might not have read
it. Despite all the media attention Anne
Frank's story has received in regards to motion pictures, stage productions and
print...it still remains a very personal and touching story that brings you
right into the heart of the 20th Century's most shameful human event.... the
Nazi Holocaust.
Published posthumously by her Father, Otto Frank in 1947,
the book chronicles the life of Anne while the family was in hiding from the
Nazis, concealed in the attic of sympathetic friends. It is a combination of Anne's work, compiled
by Mr. Frank from what was left of her diary, and other writings for the years
1942-1944. It should be noted that Anne
re-wrote some of her earlier diary entries after hearing that the Allies were
going to be collecting and using this information to prosecute the Germans and
those who collaborated with them once victory was secured. It has also been alleged that Otto Frank
added to the narrative after Anne’s' demise in the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp. Regardless, both of these
contentious bits of literary controversy take away not one bit from Anne's
authentic account...despite the Holocaust deniers and their ridiculous claim
that the whole thing is a fraud.
Originally published in Dutch...the diary was translated
into English and published in the US in 1952...Eleanor Roosevelt wrote the
introduction for this edition. Otto
Frank...the patriarch of the family...was the sole survivor...everyone else,
all those who had hidden in the attic...perished in the camps. Mr. Frank passed away in 1980. He was a lone witness to a horror that stripped
him of everything. A man that had worked
at Macy's Department Store in New York on a internship in his youth, a man that
served honorably as an officer in the Kaiser's army...braving combat on World
War One's Western Front, a man who's first cousin designed and decorated Nelson
Rockefeller’s New York apartment, a man who's country turned against him and
his family...this man, bears witness...
Finding a first US edition is not all that hard...and not all that expensive. You can pick up a copy from Ebay, Amazon or Abebooks...or you can read it online. The online text version is in Dutch...but Google will translate....The Diary of a Young Girl
Finding a first US edition is not all that hard...and not all that expensive. You can pick up a copy from Ebay, Amazon or Abebooks...or you can read it online. The online text version is in Dutch...but Google will translate....The Diary of a Young Girl