Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Definitive edition (paperback, reprint)

Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler

Paperback: 341 pages

Size: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches

Publisher: Anchor Books; Reprint edition (February 1, 1996)

Includes previously unpublished material


Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.


Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Franks remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.


In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.