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.
Miep Gies helped Anne Frank and her family hide from the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands. In this book she tells of her life during that period, focusing on recollections of the Franks and on her resistance activities.