The Diary of a young girl

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a teenage girl living in Germany during the holocaust. And yes, she was Jewish. Anne and her family and some friends hid in the hidden apartment above a warehouse. This “Secret Annex” soon became home. Like any people that are penned up together for too long there were arguments and fights and too many disagreements to count. Still, all of them banned together in their fight not to be discovered by the Nazis.

Meip Gies was a friend who was also their connection to life outside the annex. Since none of them could ever leave Meip basically provided everything for them. She brought the hideouts clothes and newspapers and supplied them with food, or anything else they could have possibly required.

“The Diary of a Young Girl” is an addictive book. I read it in every spare moment I had. I read it late into the night and when I woke up in the morning. The complexity of this young woman’s thoughts itself is perplexing and quite inspirational. She wrote with so much knowledge for such a young person. I recommend this book for its historical significance but also for the story line. The sequence of events is

Created by Leah Williams. November 7, 2007

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