Since its original release in 1947, the tome has been translated into more than 70 languages, featured on countless required reading lists, quoted myriad times in myriad publications, sold over 35 million copies becoming one of the best-selling books of all time, adapted into a Pulitzer-Prize-winning play as well as an Oscar-winning film and heralded by a succession of critics and luminaries, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who called it “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read.”Īs such, you may think that all aspects of Anne’s far-too-short life have already been exhaustively chronicled. Though the youngster was ultimately captured and imprisoned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she succumbed to typhus before ever reaching her 16th birthday, her diary, published posthumously, is one of the definitive writings on the Holocaust. You’d be hard-pressed to find a person not thoroughly familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the precocious Jewish teenager forced into hiding with her family and four friends following the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam in the midst of World War II.
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