Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Book Reviews of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Book Review: moving first-person account of Jews in hiding
Summary: 5 Stars
Unlike many others, I somehow never had to read this book in school. So I read it as an adult. This powerful book is the personal diary of a 13 year old girl who was in hiding in an attic (for 2 years) during the Holocaust.
If you are in Amsterdam you can visit the attic that they hid in - it is now a museum. I toured it, and what shocked me was how very small the area was that they all lived in...(The diary described their small living quarters, but it didn't seem real to me until I saw it for myself.) As per Anne's diary, it was very challenging and frustrating for a group of people to live in such close quarters. They had to be quiet and still during the day (when other people were in the building), but at night they could move around a little more freely.
I also visited Bergen Belsen in Germany - the concentration camp where Anne and her sister died. There is a special memorial to them there.
Anne was just a young girl and parts of her diary are about silly "young girl stuff"...And parts are a little dull because it is just about the everyday routine of life in the attic. But, overall it is an exceptional first-person account of what it was like to be Jews in hiding during WWII. As you read, you can relate to Anne's fears, struggles, hopes and dreams...dreams that were never fulfilled because of the horror of the Holocaust. I recommend this book to students and adults alike.
Book Review: The Diary of Anne Frank
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently read a book titled Anne Frank: Diary of a young Girl. When I first started reading it I couldn't put it down I read it night and day, day and night. It is a perceptive journal that was written by a young girl during the time of the Holocaust. She received this journal on her thirteenth birthday; it was a gift from her father. This was about two weeks before her family went into hiding. The people that she lived with were her mother and father, her sister, another family of three, and a young dentist. I absolutely fell in love with this book. It showed haw hared it was for a thirteen-year-old girl and her family (along with some others) hid from the Nazi's during the Nazi Occupation of Holland. Her personality really surprised me, because she had such a positive attitude through everything that she went through. In her diary she expressed her thoughts and insights about her environment. She described her feelings and all the occurrences that took place everyday on fears that she lived through.
I enjoyed this book because it taught me a great deal about myself. It showed me that I didn't have as hard of a life as I had thought I had. Anne Frank never had the chance to lead a normal adolescents life... The book brought me to tears, and I have a lot of respect for Anne Frank. After reading the Diary of Anne Frank I appreciate my life and what I have a lot more!
Book Review: Anne Frank:The Diary of a Young Girl(Historical Nonfiction)
Summary: 5 Stars
Anne Frank was a real Jewish girl that lived with her mom, dad, sister, and four other people. They were all hiding from the Nazis because they didn't want to be placed in concentration camps where they would most likely die. They lived in constant fear and isolation of the rest of the world. Anne Frank's diary showed that even if the Jewish people that she lived with struggled with so many problems, they never gave up. I think that that's the kind of mentality that we should withhold each and every day. They were set into concentration camps and all of them died except for the father, Otto Frank. He survived and went back to his home where he found Anne's journal and published it. It shows what such hatred can do to people.I enjoyed this book because it showed that even a girl my age can truly be negatively effected in a situation of hatred and how much pain that she must have suffered. When she went into the concentration camp, my heart was heavy for her because I had a feeling that she was going to die because not many survived. It was also interesting to read about these eight rightfully scared-silly characters fighting over all of their little problems when there was a more important worldly problem.
My favorite part is when Otto Frank comes back because I thought to myself that if he hadn't come back, the book would have probably never gotten published in the first place.
Book Review: A fantastic story of a young girl
Summary: 5 Stars
The Diary of Anne Frank is of a girl who is struggling through her childhood in the Holocaust with only her diary - Kitty as her friend througout. A regular girl who loves a boy, who is shy and who wishes for a life without the Nazis. This is a touching book that holds a love story, history and the life of a young girl. Perhaps one of the best books ever written. Once I had picked up the book, I couldn't put it down. You wouldn't believe the story that one book tells about a life of a girl and the six people she lived with in hiding. Hiding from those that wanted to take her away from everything she knew. This book sends you a strong message about how we made a mistake in our lives and this young girl, no older then 14, was forced to suffer with her family in this ordeal. Within all this opens a love story. A young boy who touches her heart and forces her to open up from her shiness. Peter, a boy who comes from a completely different world from Anne doesn't know what to do with his life and yet Anne, a girl who has her entire future in her mind. Her world is so evident and her future is paved out for her and yet this young girl's mind is set on a future with this young man. The events around her force her to become mature and think as an adult when she is only a child. This book was very well written and a fantastic story that one can not surpass. Enjoy it as much as I did!Book Review: The best book I ever read!!! Better than Harry Potter!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is actually the diary of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living during WWI. She writes about love, her emotions, and what it is like living her life in hiding from the nazis. Finding who her true friends are and who is really "there" for her she describes everything that goes on in her life. Moving from place to place to escape from Hitler's wrath her family ends up in Holland in an old building, behind a secret bookcase that leads to her "Secret Annex". She lives in the "Secret Annex" for over three long years with one other family, and an old man. Telling her adventures in her hiding place she makes the reader feel as if they were there beside her. She falls in love with one of the people hiding with her and lives there happily with him for a long time. She describes herself as a "little bundle on contradictions" and a bit on the "cheeky" side. I find her very loving and sweet but on the outside she tries to hide her true feelings from mostly everyone. This noisy and annoying girl is really a shy teenager who wishes to be left in peace and feels as if no one understands her. Finding that everyone is there for her in her time of need she tries to enjoy the world around her. Figuring out the true meaning of life, she lives a short, yet happy one during this long war and lives peacefully until she is almost 15.