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During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. [8] [9] According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. [9]
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up in America.” [3] Michael Martin of nerve.com described the book as “the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after ...
Anne Frank– author of The Diary of a Young Girl; Petr Ginz; Zalman Gradowski; Eva Heyman - a 13-year-old girl who kept a diary in Nagyvárad (now called Oradea), a Hungarian part of Romania, before murdered in Aushwitz; Etty Hillesum– Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim; kept a diary in Amsterdam and in the Westerbork transit camp ...
That changed when he encountered The Diary of Anne Frank, the first personal diary to emerge from the war. Levin wrote to Otto Frank and met with him before leaving Europe, inquiring into the American publication and dramatic rights. He was the first to see the dramatic potential of the Diary. [2] [3]
The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning 1959 film adaptation.
Julius Feldman (1923–1943): The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman; Sarah Fishkin (1924–1942): Heaven and Earth: the Diary of Sarah Fishkin; Moshe Flinker (1926–1944): Young Moshe’s Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe; Anne Frank (1929–1945): The Diary of a Young Girl; Petr Ginz (1928–1944): The Diary of Petr Ginz
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In 1942, the Netherlands, a Nazi-occupied country, has become a place where Jews are being captured and murdered by the Nazis. Otto Frank (Max von Sydow) and his family go into hiding in the office building of his company, Opekta, assisted by his Christian friends and co-workers: Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Santrouschitz-Gies and Bep Voskuijl.