The Diary of A Young Girl

“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”

Anne Frank, Saturday, June 20 1942

The Diary of a Young Girl is a singular, moving look at World War II from a young girl’s perspective. Anne Frank couldn’t have known, when she wrote these words, that her musings would become primary sources of information about life during the holocaust. Anne is a remarkably clever, thoughtful narrator, and her diary is as entertaining as it is a significant historical document. Though the events within the diary offer only a glimpse of the horrors inflicted on Jewish people by the Nazis, the diary paints a vivid picture of human nature and relationships in a time of war and hope.

‘There are many important messages in this book, but the most important message is that all people have the right to live in freedom. Anne’s story shows us that just because people may be a different religion or race, doesn’t mean that they should be treated differently’

– The Guardian

‘The resulting diary is one of the most moving stories that anyone, anywhere, has managed to tell about World War II’

– Time