Diary of Anne Frank

This month's literature project "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl"

We're going to read this book. I want to give you a little information prior to reading. We're taking a field trip to the Anne Frank exhibit in Salt Lake City this April.

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was fifteen years old. Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.

Please visit www.annefrank.org to view photographs and descriptions of the annex.