Anne Frank diary
Hidden girl's journal
The diary of Anne Frank is a journal kept by a Jewish German-Dutch girl while hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam during World War II.
Published posthumously as *Het Achterhuis* (The Secret Annex), it became one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.
The diary documents two years of confinement before the family's discovery and deportation; Anne died in Bergen-Belsen at fifteen.
We read Anne Frank's diary in eighth grade.
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- Nazi occupationWWII German military rule
- hidingStaying out of sight
- AmsterdamCapital of Netherlands
- atticSpace beneath the roof
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