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The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another...

The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.

Esta guía está organizada para ayudar al lector a comprender y reflexionar sobre el diario de Anne Frank. Antecedentes, líneas de tiempo y el glosario proporcionan contexto histórico durante los años de la vida de Ana y están diseñadas para colocar su diario en el marco de los eventos que tienen lugar durante la segunda guerra mundial y el Holocausto. Detalles especiales han incluido para destacar los 25 meses durante el cual Anne y su familia...