#Anne Frank's diary

[vanessafangirl13]

Happy birthday to Anne Frank 🎉🎊 a symbol of hope and human rights of the 20th century

And the writer of her diary explaining her life during the most tragic moment

Though her life was cut short at 15 years old during the Holocaust, she's still remembered as one of the most celebrated writers of all time, published after the war by her father Otto Frank, Her story would continue for many generations to come

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[yoursannefrank]

Official trailer from the new National Geographic series focusing on Miep Gies, the woman, who helped to hide Anne Frank and her family. 

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[maysshortmoviereviews]

A Small Light (2023)

🎬The inspiring, real-life story of Miep Gies, who played a critical role in hiding Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam.

📝An exceptionally filmed, acted real life story about someone who dared to risk it all in order to do the right thing. It's thought provoking and very moving, you know what happened after the secret annex was raided, but you couldn't help but to hope for a miracle. I think this is essential viewing and I cannot recommend it enough. The whole series is a classic, but the last two episodes really hit it home.

Bel Powely @belpowley is a gifted actress and as is Joe Cole @theotherjoecole. Newcomer Billie Boullet is great as Anne Frank, but it really got to me when she left the Annex and the look on her face.

I am still thinking about this series, it was one of the reasons why I signed up to National Geographic so I could watch it. The whole cast is great and this story had to be told. I hope they make more about the good people who did the right thing, they are an inspiration.

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[hrbumga]

The Diary of a Young Girl

Alright, how am I gonna do this?

So, the fourth book in my TIMES Best 100 YA Challenge was very different from the others. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is heralded as one of the most influential books of all time. I’m going to try and review it the same way I have others in the series, though by its nature it’ll be examined through a different lens.

I don’t know if you can consider a discussion of Anne Frank’s diary as having spoilers but for what it’s worth, this post is going to have spoilers.

Preconceptions

Had I previously read this book before the challenge? No. I made an attempt back in December of 2015, but I only got a couple pages in.

I feel like everyone’s heard of Anne Frank’s diary. It’s world renowned for being a massively important historical document. The copy I had, the definitive mass-market paperback edition, there’s an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt that describes it as “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read.” It would be an understatement to say that it’s a big deal.

I knew that Anne Frank wrote the diary while in hiding as Nazis took over Europe. I knew that she didn’t survive this and that her diary was published by her father, Otto Frank. I’d heard there was some criticism on publishing the diary, but I didn’t know much (more on that in the background portion of this post).

When I mentioned I’d be reading this for my challenge, a friend who’d read it in school candidly remarked that it was certainly an important historical document but that it was, “honestly kind of boring,” which they explained was to be expected reading a teenage girl’s diary and all the day-to-day musings that would come from growing up in hiding. I appreciated this friend’s honesty, since everything else I’d heard had put the book on a bit of a pedestal and not gonna lie, it intimidated me.

Overall Feelings

After reading Anne Frank’s diary, I can say it definitely deserves its place on the Best YA Books list. By it’s nature, it’s incredibly honest and really captures not only what it’s like coming-of-age as a teenage girl, but the turmoil and hardship of being in hiding during WWII.

That being said, I think my friend was kind of right. A lot of the book is very dry, which is hard to avoid with the nature of what it is. Many of the passages are everyday thoughts and feelings, and being in confinement, there’s a lot of monotony. Still, between the day-to-day observations, there were some profound passages about the nature of humanity in general. It goes without saying but Anne Frank was really wise beyond her years.

Presentation

While I think it’s futile to try to imagine an alternate history, part of me can’t help but wonder how Anne Frank would have retroactively edited her works. She intended to publish her diary as a memoir, but since she tragically died in the concentration camps, we’ll never know her intended vision for the final publication.

A Little Background

Aw geez, I don’t know how I’m going to sum this up. Honestly, anything I write here would either have to be a book’s length in context or completely redundant since I feel like a lot of people know at least some background on The Diary of a Young Girl. I’ll focus, then, on some things that I found were interesting and enlightening but this is by no means a complete account.

I think I’ll focus on the editorial history, in part because it’s the only portion I feel equipped to tackle and because I find it a little fascinating.

Editorial History

So, after the residents in the annex were arrested, the police seized anything “of value,” in terms of money and jewelry, heirlooms, etc. Anne’s diary was among the things left behind. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two women who’d helped hide the eight annex residents and bring supplies throughout the years, managed to retrieve the diary after the arrest.

After liberation, Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was the sole survivor of the eight people who’d been hiding in the annex. He reconnected with Miep and Bep and went on to publish the diary, as well as founded the Anne Frank Fonds, a foundation focused on the human rights of women and children.

The diary itself has been published in a couple editions. Initially, Anne Frank had actually written two iterations of the diary: first, just the diary (version A), but then a second version that she revised and edited (version B). I know I mentioned it was pointless to wonder how Anne would have edited her work, but we get hints about what she would’ve done through these editions. For instance, initially she had left out certain details about criticizing her mother and having a crush on fellow annex resident Peter van Pels (van Daan in the publication). Otto opted to publish details from both A and B, but omitted one particular passage about his and his late wife’s marriage, requesting it wait to be published after he died.

Initially, the book was also published missing a lot of what Anne had written regarding puberty and sexuality, fearing criticism from conservative readers. More on that in the “Current Book Banning Issues” portion of this post below. Eventually though, The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition was published, which at the time of writing is the publication out today, which covers all the omitted text. There’s only one passage that remains left out of the definitive edition: apparently there was an entry that Anne had pasted over, in which historians could see the underlying text. The historians felt there was clear authorial intent to definitely keep this passage out, and that wish has been respected.

Current Book Banning Issues

Currently as I’m writing this, it’s 2022 and there’s a whole slew of book banning and book challenging efforts in the United States. Recently, there was a challenge in Keller ISD in Texas (I grew up in Keller!) to allegedly ban a whole bunch of books, including (surprisingly) the Bible and (less surprisingly) the graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary. There was a bit of a media storm, not about the challenging per say, but about an order from the school district to pull the books from schools and libraries immediately following challenging orders (for information on the difference between challenging and banning books, check out this video).

This caused quite a stir in the media, though it sounds like a lot of it was the media getting fussy. The Bible and the graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary are back on the shelves after being deeming appropriate for students, however it sounds like the overall book challenge issue at Keller ISD is far from over. In my personal opinion, I wonder if saying “we still have the Bible and Anne Frank!” is being used as cover from criticism for banning other books on the list, such as Bechdel’s Fun Home, Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, among others.

Rating

★★★★

I’m giving it four stars, purely a subjective opinion here. While it was insightful and mostly brilliant, it was definitely dry and slower paced for my own tastes.

Moving Forward

We’re heading back into the world of fiction for J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, which I’m looking forward to getting into! I feel like a ton of these early-challenge books are ones that a lot of people have as required-reading in school, and I haven’t read any of them (so far). It’ll be interesting to read and hear other people’s thoughts.

Sources

Anne Frank House. “The publication of the diary.” Anne Frank House. 2022.

Callendar, Hudson. “Bible, Anne Frank Graphic Novel Back on Keller ISD Shelves After Allegations of Being Banned.” The Texan: 22 August, 2022.

Frank, Anne, et al. The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition. Anchor: 1947.

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[sanny-chan5]

75 años con "El diario de Ana Frank" 💗💔

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[aquamarine-dream-queen]

Anne Frank's diary turned 75 years old today! And do you have any idea how much we're going to miss her?📔

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[mysharona1987]

Texas school district banning *both* Anne Frank and The Bible.

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[myownpanicroom]

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[whywoulditho]

not saying the holocaust wasn't bad. but i need people to understand that it wasn't the only genocide that happened in the same period of world history. not because i want you to pay less attention to holocaust but because i need you to ask why it's the only one we ever talk about. it wasn't the longest occured massacre of a marginalized group, it wasn't the most gruesome, it wasn't the one with the most casualties, it wasn't the first and it wasn't the last one. i need people to think about why we didn't pay much attention to all the other holocausts after WWII that happened simultaniously and were just as horrible. it says so much about media, the news we are fed, and that our empathy is BOUGHT by the same people that keep funding genocides all over the world.

#i didn't grow up in the west- #-so everytime i watch a movie where the characters comically try to avoid saying the word 'nazi' because it's so offensive i'm like.... huh #how are you as an american suggest that being a nazi is the most evil thing a human can be but describe america as the land of the brave? #for many people hitler is the face of evildoing but every single european leader at the time engaged in similar activities #and this is not to say we shouldnt condemn nazis or whatever. god no #i get a lot of asks (some very rude by the way) from people who think i'm an antisemite because i'm... muslim? #dunno how yall think that makes sense but no. i learned about the holocaust from my very muslim mother. #who then gavw me anne frank's diary to read #holocaust has always been a topic we talked about at home. it had a lot tell about the western world #but we didn't have the same 'dont speak of it or you'll get cancelled' type of mindset #i believe that's because it wasn't the only genocide we learned and talked about #it holds so much weight in the western world because you think it's this very out of the blue thing that happened only once in history. #that tells even more about the western world #thoughts #freepalestine #free palestine #free congo #free sudan #free uyghurs #boycott israel

[yoursannefrank]

Otto Frank inaugurating the Statue of Anne Frank, Amsterdam 1977

SOURCE

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[oxytocinme95]

The pianist of Gaza. My 142nd day entry of genocide diary.

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[sophiesonlinediary]

i recommend every teenage girl to read diary of a young girl by anne frank its so amazing

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[beyondtheciouds]

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because, in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

#the diary of anne frank #a small light #hulu #disney+ #national geographic #joe cole #liev schreiber

[azucar-skull]

Crazy fact about me:

I never learned about the holocaust growing up.

My mom had to teach me. 4 years ago. The school didn't even touch the subject at all.

So everyone thank Mamá_Skull for teaching me what's actually important. The systems have failed us. Take education into your own hands. ✌️

#my mom was so outraged when she found out #she sat me down and had me watch all the documentaries and then bought me The Diary of Anne Frank and had me read through it #mama is a hero

[jjuuiouiou]

Anne Frank <3

Dear kitty...

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[rosepompadour]

Millie Perkins leaving the preview of her film THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, 1958

I understood Anne Frank and I knew who she was. Her story hit me in my heart and soul, and there was no question in my mind that I would do it and do it right. She was exactly who I had been as a teenager. Like Anne, I was the one who got into trouble and opened my mouth. People would always say I was crazy, angry and feisty. I fought with everyone for what I wanted, and Anne did that too. When I met Otto Frank, we sat together and had a moving experience. He was so intelligent and truly sensitive and kind. I just kept thinking that, "If he doesn't like me, I won't do the part." At one point I was sitting with my thumb clenched between my index and middle fingers. He looked down at me and I looked at him and he was making the same fist. He said that Anne used to sit like that all the time. The Diary of Anne Frank inspires us to make ourselves kinder than we are. We are not kind to each other anymore. We have to become kinder to people who need it. - MILLIE PERKINS

#the diary of anne frank #millie perkins #anne frank #* #still the best screen anne #i love everything about this movie except for the fact that they filmed it in fucking cinemascope #of all things! #what were you thinking george stevens?