History Literature / TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl

Aiko Beemsterboer as Anne Frank

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One of the most famous and memorable accounts of the German occupation during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, ''The Diary of a Young Girl''[[note]]''Het Achterhuis'' (''The Secret Annex'') in the original Dutch[[/note]], also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', was the title given to the edited version of the diaries of Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945), a Jewish German schoolgirl who ended up one of the most well-known and emblematic victims of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

* ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' (1959). Adapts the 1955 stage play. Creator/MilliePerkins portrayed Anne.

* ''Series/ASmallLight'' (2023). Focuses on the Dutch people who helped the Franks to hide, particularly Miep Gies. Billie Boullet portrayed Anne.

* ''Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari'' (1995). Anime film.
* ''Anne Frank's Diary'' (1999). European animated film.
* ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank'' (2021). European-Israeli animated film in the MagicalRealism genre.

* ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' (1959). Adapts the 1955 stage play.

* ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1980). TV film.
* ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' (2001).
* ''Series/ASmallLight'' (2023). Focuses on the Dutch people who helped the Franks to hide, particularly Miep Gies.

* ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank'' (2021), MagicalRealism animated film.

* ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959).

* ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' (2001)

* ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'', 1955 stage play.

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The best-known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''. The 2023 miniseries ''Series/ASmallLight'' features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide, particularly Miep Gies.

The best-known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''. The 2023 miniseries ''Series/ASmallLight'' features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide.

1.5 million young children were murdered (shot, starved, gassed and etc.) in the Holocaust, but [[AMillionIsAStatistic that is too big for the "average person" to mentally process]], so Anne is used as a figure in popular culture to represent all of them. The official Auschwitz Museum is working hard to remember the individual children through its social media accounts. See an example here with [[https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1533373094798163968 French Jewish child Gina Goldstein]] who was gassed upon her arrival at Auschwitz not long after her sixth birthday.

The best known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''. The 2023 miniseries ''Series/ASmallLight'' features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide.

* ApocalypticLog: One of the most known real life examples. The diary was written during [=WW2=] in Amsterdam, Netherlands occupied by Nazi Germany where many Jews were persecuted. Because Anne's family were Jewish, they were forced into hiding into a small room in a house to avoid the Nazis. In order to pass the time living in a small room everyday, Anne was given a diary which she used to document her everyday life in hiding.

** The classic one. The translator uses 'gay' to mean "joyous" and 'queer' to mean "strange".
** This is the only example that's shared with the 50s translation and 90s translation: Anne calls her platonic friends "girlfriends", but given that Anne wrote about wanting to touch one of her friend's breasts, this might be accidentally fitting.

One of the most famous and memorable accounts of the German occupation during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, ''The Diary of a Young Girl''[[note]]''Het Achterhuis'' (''The Secret Annex'') in the original Dutch[[/note]], also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', was the title given to the edited version of the diaries of Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945), a Jewish German schoolgirl who ended up one of the most well known and emblematic victims of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and settled in the capital city of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas to emigrate, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands (and most of Western UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}) in 1940.

At first, the Franks tried to live out the occupation, but as the genocidal intent of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and the Nazis became clear, Anne's father Otto built a secret shelter in the building where he worked (by that point, the country's borders were closed and travel for Jews was tightly regulated; leaving Amsterdam would have been impossible). In 1942, Anne was given a diary notebook for her 13th birthday.

* OlderSiblingWorship: At times, Anne feels incapable of measuring up to Margot's smarts & resents the adults treating her with more respect while criticising Anne's faults.

1.5 million young children were murdered (shot, starved, gassed and etc.) in the Holocaust, but that is too big for the "average person" to mentally process (AMillionIsAStatistic) so Anne is used as a figure in popular culture to represent all of them. The official Auschwitz Museum is working hard to remember the individual children through its social media accounts. See an example here with [[https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1533373094798163968 French Jewish child Gina Goldstein]] who was gassed upon her arrival at Auschwitz not long after her sixth birthday.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Otto Frank's publication of the diary removed many of its passages. While some were innocuous abridgments demanded by the publisher, many of them were edits to remove mentions on Anne's sexuality, some proto-feminism, her less-than-kind words for their now deceased roommates, etc. The cut passages were later published in an unabridged edition, which was (perhaps unsurprisingly) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Banning subject to controversy and even banning]].

* ApocalypticLog: One of the most known real life examples. The diary was written during [=WW2=] in Amsterdam, Netherlands occupied by Nazi Germany where many Jews were persecuted. Because Anne's Frank's family were Jewish, they were forced into hiding into a small room in a house to avoid the Nazis. In order to pass the time living in a small house everyday, Anne was given a diary which she used to document her everyday life in hiding.

* ApocalypticLog: One of the most known real life examples. The diary was written during WW2 in Amsterdam, Netherlands occupied by Nazi Germany where many Jews were persecuted. Because Anne's Frank's family were Jewish, they were forced into hiding into a small room in a house to avoid the Nazis. In order to pass the time living in a small house everyday, Anne was given a diary which she used to document her everyday life in hiding.

* ApocalypticLog: One of the most known real life examples.

Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and settled in the capital city of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas to emigrate, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands in 1940.

Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and settled in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands' capital city, Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas to emigrate, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands in 1940.

* ThinkOfTheChildren: In an entry from late 1942, Anne writes about a novel circulating amongst the adults (including then 17-year old Margot) that has been forbidden to her, apparently because of its smutty nature.

* DownerEnding: Of those who hid in the Annex, [[SoleSurvivor only Otto Frank survived the Holocaust]].

** Anne once gives Mrs. Van Daan a toilet water based shampoo. At first it seems the gift is pay back against her, but toilet water was meant to refer to perfume.

** Anne also writes more about the other resident's personalities later in the diary. For example, in 1944, she regrets her previous characterizations of her mother and sister as unnecessarily mean.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted at the start. Twice in the same entry, in fact. First, there's a boy mentioned named Herman Koopman, who shares his first name with Mr. Van Pels/Van Dan. After that, she mentions having a crush on a boy named Peter, months before she fell in love with the Peter in the Annex. Anne lampshades their shared names, and commented that it’s like the two Peters combined into one in her mind.

The best known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory''and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''. The 2023 miniseries ''Series/ASmallLight'' features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide.

* NoEnding: Anne's diary ends abruptly, since she obviously couldn't continue it in the camps.

Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and settled in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, in Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas to emigrate, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands in 1940.

The best known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory''and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank'' The 2023 miniseries ''Series/ASmallLight'' features the residents of the Annex, but focuses on the people who helped them hide.

The best known adaptation of the book is the play (1955) and movie (1959) ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. There is also the 2001 miniseries ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' and the 2021 MagicalRealism animated movie ''Animation/WhereIsAnneFrank''.

Anne's family, the Franks, fled the increasing persecutions of Jewish people in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and settled in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, in Amsterdam, in 1934, when Anne was 4 and a half. Unfortunately, war broke out in 1939 and the Franks could not get visas for either the Americas or Great Britain, and German forces invaded and ended up occupying the Netherlands in 1940.

One of the most famous and memorable accounts of the German occupation during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, ''The Diary of a Young Girl''[[note]]''Het Achterhuis'' (''The Secret Annex'') in the original Dutch[[/note]], also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', was the title given to the edited version of the diaries of Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945), a Jewish German schoolgirl who ended up one of the most well known victims of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

Of those who lived in the Annex, only Otto Frank survived Auschwitz and returned to Amsterdam. Family friend and co-conspirator Miep Gies managed to save all of Anne's papers from the ransacked house, then convinced Otto that the world needed to know about what had happened. The book was first published in Dutch in 1947, then translated to English in 1952, and it has never left the public consciousness since. If you pull someone out of a crowd and ask them to name a Holocaust victim, they will probably name Anne Frank.

* ApocalypticLog: One of the most known real Apocalyptic Logs in real life.