10 Facts About Anne Frank’s ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’

In 1947, daily ideas that appear innocent were published for a teenage girl. But they were not every day: Ann Frank’s 13 -year -old ideas were in a unique position to help the world understand what it had to hide your existence completely in exchange for merely an opportunity to stay surviving the Nazi regime.

Her notes have since sold more than 30 million copies and translated into 67 languages. If you don’t read Diary of a little girl For a while (or even if you have), here are 10 things that you should know about the book and its author, who – alongside her family – was arrested by GESTAPO on August 4, 1944.

1. The “Diaries” of Anne, which she received her thirteenth birthday, was in fact a signature book.
2. Ann wrote most of her notes in the form of letters to a person called Kitty.
3. Ann and her family were found when they were betrayed by someone – unknown to this day – who knew where to hide.
4. Ann died in the Bergen-Bilsen camp, but not in the gas rooms.
5. Among the eight people who were hiding in the secret attachment, only one survived.
6. Auto Frank was given Ann’s notes by MIEP GIES, a Dutch citizen who helped hide Franks.
7. If you look at MIEP GIES the contents of the diaries, we will never be able to read the deepest ideas.
8. Diary of a little girl It is often blocked and challenging.
9. A school in Alabama tried to ban the book for a very stupid reason.
10. Some people – most often deny the Holocaust – that Ann Frank’s notes are forgery.

The “Diaries” of Anne, which she received her thirteenth birthday, was in fact a signature book.

The ambitious writer decided to be used better as a magazine. It turned into two books yet Signature book He was full, and finally resorted to about 360 pages of loose leaves.

Ann wrote most of her notes in the form of letters to a person called Kitty.

So who was Kitty? Scientists are divided. Some believe that “Kitty” refers to Ann Kissar’s friend, Käthe “Kitty” egyedi. Others do not agree, believing that Ann borrowed the name of its favorite book series, Jooop Ter Heul, where the best friend of the title was named Kitty. Igidi, who survived the Terisenstadt direction camp, said later that she did not think that the messages were dedicated to it.

Not everything Diary It was directed to Kitty, by the way. Early messages were also sent to Kony, Marian, Amy and Bob.

Ann and her family were found when they were betrayed by someone – unknown to this day – who knew where to hide.

The German officers raided the building and took arrests on August 4, 1944. The arrest officer, Karl Silberbauer, later remembered that he clearly remembered the arrest of Franks, and according to what was told Otto Frank, “What a beautiful daughter you have.” When Silberbauer’s actions were discovered in 1963, he was suspended from his job in the Vienna police force. he Quoted Say, “Why do you choose me after all these years? After the investigation, he was allowed to return to his job.

Silberbauer also admitted that he had bought a copy of Diary of a little girl To see if it has been displayed. It was not. He said: “Maybe I should have taken it from the ground.”

Ann died in the Bergen-Bilsen camp, but not in the gas rooms.

Ann had already lost her mother to hunger, and her sister to the Tivus, and believed that her father had died. For a long time, it was believed that three days after her sister’s death, Ann surrendered to Tivus in March 1945 – and that the camp was liberated by the British forces a few weeks later. But in 2015, New search Ann Frank House suggested that both and her sister, Margot, had passed away in February one month ago of what he previously thought.

Among the eight people who were hiding in the secret attachment, only one survived.

Otto Frank, Ann’s father, from Auschwitz and was liberated by the Soviet soldiers in January 1945. By summer, he learned that his daughters and his wife had all died. It was Auto who published Ann’s memoirs in 1947. Otto continued in a long life: he Pass In Basel, Switzerland in 1980, at the age of 91.

Auto Frank was given Ann’s notes by MIEP GIES, a Dutch citizen who helped hide Franks.

MIEP GIES collected diaries and papers after the soldiers leave and hope that they are able to return them to one day. After receiving the pages, Otto presented it for publication, knowing that this is what you meant. The first edition of the diary was called The secret attachmentOr The secret attachment.

If you look at MIEP GIES the contents of the diaries, we will never be able to read the deepest ideas.

Jais later said that if she knew what was inside, she would have destroyed the writings because they criminalized everyone who helped hide Franks, Van Bells, and Vritz in Fiver. Otto Frank finally convinced her of his reading when the book was in his second printing.

Diary of a little girl It is often blocked and challenging.

It was written by Ann Frank Some controversy Over the years, but not for the reasons you may think of. There are clips in the diaries in which Ann expresses its curiosity about its autopsy – which is quite normal for a teenage girl. In fact, the clip is the most humor of “porn”, as some demonstrators called it:

“There are small folds of leather everywhere, you can barely find it. The little hole is so small that I simply cannot imagine how a man can get there, not to mention how a full child can go out!”

A school in Alabama tried to ban the book for a very stupid reason.

In 1983, a school in Alabama tried Ann notes It is simply from schools because it was a “real Down”.

Some people – most often deny the Holocaust – that Ann Frank’s notes are forgery.

In an attempt to put these rumors to rest, documents for handwriting, glue, binding, ink and paper types were analyzed. Nothing has been found that would refer remotely to the notes being fake.

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