The Diary of a Young Girl –
Anne Frank
Hello everyone first of all I will give you the introduction of the
author about whom I’m blogging my this post. I am writing about Anne Frank
because after knowing about her , the only thing that came to mind is that she
must be remembered .
ANNE FRANK , she may be considered as the youngest
author to have a book published and making a record of selling the copies of it
, although her dairy was published after her death and she didn’t knew that it would
be published .
Anneliese Marie Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in
Frankfurt , Weimar Germany and she died in early March 1945 at the age of 15 in
, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , Lower Saxony ,Nazi Germany . She was one of the most discussed Jewish
victims of the Holocaust . The Diary of Anne Frank is one the most read books of the world.
In 1947 it was published in Dutch language and in 1952 it was published in English as The Diary of a Young Girl .
Her wartime diary has been the basis for several plays and films.
She lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam , in the Netherlands .
Born a German national , Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained
international fame posthumously after her diary was published . It documents her
experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
In her diary Anne wrote about all her experiences in the form of a
letter to her doll Kitty . She found
no one to whom she could tell her thoughts , so she told them to her doll by
writing in a diary.
The Frank family (Otto Frank –
father of Anne , Edith Frank – Mother of Anne and Margot- elder sister of Anne) moved from Germany to Amsterdam
in 1933 , the year the Nazis gained
control over Germany. By May 1940 , they were trapped in Amsterdam by the
German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population
increased in July 1942 , the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms in
the building where Anne’s father worked . After two years , the group was
betrayed and transported to concentration camps . Anne Frank and her sister ,
Margot Frank , were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp where they died(probably of typhus) in March 1945.
Otto Frank the only survivor of the family , returned to Amsterdam after
the war to find that Anne’s diary has been saved , and his efforts led to its
publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages . It was
translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary , which was given to Anne on her
thirteenth birthday , chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until August 1944.
For thirteenth birthday on 12 June 1942 , Anne Frank received
a book she had shown her father in a shop window a few days earlier . Although
it was an autograph book with red and white checkered cloth and with a small
lock on the front , Frank decided she would use it as a diary , and began
writing in it almost immediately . While many of her entries relate the mundane
aspects of her life , she also discusses some of the changes that had taken
place in the Netherlands since the German occupation . In her entry dated 20
June 1942 , she listed many of the restrictions that had been placed upon the
lives of the Dutch Jewish population , and also notes her sorrow at the death
of her grandmother earlier in the year. Frank dreamed about becoming an actress
. She loved watching movies, but the Dutch Jews were forbidden access to movie
theaters from 8 January 1941 onwards.
In her writing , Frank examined her relationships with the members of
her family , and the strong differences in each of their personalities. She
considered herself to be closest emotionally to her father , who later
commented , “I got
on better with Anne than with Margot , who was more attached to her
mother . The reason for that may have been that Margot rarely showed her
feelings and didn’t need as much support because she didn’t suffer from mood
swings as much as Anne did.” The Frank sisters formed a closer relationship
than had existed before they went into hiding , although Anne sometimes
expressed her jealousy towards Margot , particularly when members of the
household criticized Anne for lacking Margot’s gentle and placid nature. Frank
frequently wrote of her difficult relationship with her mother, and of ambivalence towards her.
Frank aspired to become a journalist , writing her diary on Wednesday ,
5 April 1944 :
“ I finally realized that I must
do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant , to get on in life , to become a
journalist , because that’s what I want ! I know I can write … but it remains
to be seen whether I really have talent …
And if I don’t have the talent to write books or newspaper articles , I
can always write for myself . But I want to achieve more than that . I can’t
imagine living like Mother , Mrs. Van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten
. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!
..
I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve
never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m so
grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop
myself and to express all that’s inside me!
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears , my
spirits are revived ! But and that’s a big question , will I ever be able to
write something great , will I ever become a journalist or a writer?"
-Anne Frank
She continued writing regularly until her last entry of
1 August 1944.
