The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank · 1947 · Dutch

Autobiography & memoirWorld

About the book

Anne wrote it from 1942 to 1944 while her family hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam. After their arrest, her father Otto, the only one of the family to survive, published it. It is one of the most widely read books about the Holocaust.

Why it matters

Diary of a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam; she died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.