About the Book: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Franks thirteenth
birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their
home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her
personal experiences and her feelings in her diary for the next two years. Cut
off from the outside world, she and her family faced hunger, boredom,
claustrophobia at living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of
discovery and death. One day, she and her family were betrayed and taken away to
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,