This led to tensions that reflected the raging war taking place outside of their hiding place. Tight quarters, limited food, and the inability to go outside took an emotional toll on Anne and her fellow residents. Anne Frank’s Diary Entries: 1942-1944Īnne Frank’s diary entries covered the period from June 1942, when she received the diary as a gift for her 13th birthday, to August 1944, when she was captured by the Nazis and taken to the concentration camp.Īddressed to her imaginary friend named Kitty, Anne Frank’s diary entries were reflections on her life in the Secret Annex and her experiences with anger, love, puberty, and fear as she and her family hid from an occupying force that wished to see her and her Jewish counterparts dead. Keep reading for the summary of Anne Frank’s diary entries. She loved the gift and began confiding it immediately, writing about her life in hiding and her musings on love, identity, and sexuality. When did Anne Frank’s diary entries begin? What were the main themes in her writing?Īnne Frank’s diary entries began in 1942 when her parents gifted her a diary on her thirteenth birthday. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. “They put on their most cheerful expressions, bring flowers and gifts for birthdays and holidays and are always ready to do what they can.This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. “Never have they uttered a single word about the burden we must be, never have they complained that we’re too much trouble,” she wrote in her diary. They devised a plan to hide the Frank family in a secret annex above Frank’s business.Īnne wrote about the couple’s kindness in her diary. Gies returned the kindness the Frank family showed her when the Nazis came to call in her area. Gies and her husband, Jan or “Hanke,” became familiar with the Frank family. Gies learned the jam making process and was soon promoted as the company’s first customer service representative. But her upstairs neighbor and Frank’s father, Otto Frank, offered her a job in his Opekta business, which traded in gelling agents with a base of fruit powder. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands a few years later, Miep lost her job. When she was 18, Miep worked as a typist in an embroidery and pleating workshop. There the Nieuwenburg family took her in. “Never have they uttered a single word about the burden we must be.” Through the assistance of a relief project for Austrian children, her parents put 11-year-old Miep on a train to the Netherlands. Her Catholic family was poor and she herself was malnourished when food became scarce after World War I. 15, 1909 in Vienna, Austria, Gies was known for her generosity and kindness as a young child. It is through the help of a Dutch Catholic woman, Miep Gies, who hid Frank and her family and preserved Anne’s diary, that those writings see the light of day.īorn on Feb. The young Jewish girl’s writings document the atrocities committed against her race by the Nazis, yet also expresses her belief in the goodness of humanity. “The Diary of Anne Frank,” which first appeared in Amsterdam in 1947 and published in English on April 30,1952 under the title “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” is one of the most widely read books in the world.
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