The Diary of Anne Frank: Best-Selling Books of All-Time

The literary version of the personal diary of a Jewish girl who narrated her days during the Nazi holocaust.

^{Annelies Marie Frank was a German girl born in 1920, her family of father, mother and older sister were Jewish, with the arrival of Adolf Hitler to power the family decides to move to Holland where they live for a few years. During that time Anna reaches the age of 13, asks her father for a diary as a birthday present, which he gladly gave her.}

^{This small gift will then become an invaluable historical relic, she begins to write her day to day about her activates and some stories using as characters her closest beings as a literary exercise because she wanted to be a writer.}

^{Little by little, the social conflict with the Jews became so acute that her father had to change jobs several times and she had to go to school, because her parents had to enroll her in an exclusive school for Jewish children, where she missed her friends very much and could only communicate with them through letters.}

^{Margot's older sister receives a letter that obligatorily informs her that she has to go to a work camp in Germany, this news is full of anguish for the family, so they faked a quick escape to Switzerland and left their home leaving all their belongings behind. They decide to hide behind the factory where their father used to work, which Anne calls "the Secret Annex" in the newspaper, where they begin to live hidden in hiding.}

^{Writing serves as an escape route from the confinement and it was during these two years when she was most involved in this activity that she narrated the monotony of her days, how she felt when living in isolation without having news from the outside, her passing from girl to woman and the opinion she had about the eight people with whom she lived. He had some run-ins with her mother, with her father and her sister and understood each other very well, he made a great friendship with her roommate the dentist Fritz Pfeffer and her feelings towards Peter van Pels to which he belonged.}

^{After spending more than two years living in hiding, some neighbors turned them in, the police caught them and they were distributed in different concentration camps. Anne, her mother and her sister were in one called Bergen-Belsen, when they arrived, they stripped them naked, shaved their heads and tattooed their registration number. They were forced into forced labor, and by this time Anne was 15 years old, which is why she was not taken to the gas chamber, where old people and children were murdered.}

^{They were there for a while, until she and her sister were selected among the best workers to go to Auschwitz, the most atrocious concentration camp of all, and they never saw their mother again. The unhealthy and overcrowded conditions meant that the diseases spread quickly and claimed more lives than the gas chambers. There was an epidemic of typhus, a deadly disease that Anne and Margot contracted.}

^{Margot delirious with fever fell from her bunk and died from a severe blow to the head, Anne died three days later of typhus. The saddest part of this story was that three weeks later the British army liberated the camp, meaning that Anne was only three weeks away from surviving that horrific place.}

^{Her father was the only Holocaust survivor, when the war ended, he decides to return to Amsterdam, where he is received by friends and given the diary written by Anne that they found in the house after they took them prisoners. The father reads the diary of his beloved daughter and is surprised by the story she tells, in 1947 he decides to publish it under the name "The Secret Annex".}

^{This book became one of the most read in history, one of the best selling books in the world, with over 27 million copies sold, translated into more than 60 languages and for a long time was compulsory school reading in Germany, as well as being a historical icon. The Secret Annex is now a museum, and very sad films and documentaries about Anne Frank's life have been filmed, leaving us impressed by the irreparable damage left by the Nazi holocaust.}

The weak die and the strong survive, and live forever.

- Anne Frank.

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All images are taken from the official Anne Frank Foundation website, gif courtesy of giphy.com.}

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