The Diary of a Young Girl

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Anne Frank - Rated
I think this book was quite interesting and made me feel very sad at the end. It is good but it also is not very engaging and it was rather boring in parts. I bought it after studying it for A level English and even though i thought it was ok, it is not one of the best books that i have read.

A classic - Rated
Despite the exceptional circumstances under which Anne Frank wrote her diary, she shows a totally natural teenage spirit, with which young people today can also identify. Boy trouble, for instance! However, she also demonstrates a remarkable maturity far beyond her years, which makes this diary so moving. Direct from the heart, Anne's Diary will always be a testimony to the suffering and hardship suffered by the Jews during the Second World War. Everyone should read this book.

Why the loss of 6 million - Rated
I first heard about her as a child dramatised on TV which scared me. It still did with the pictures of the Holocaust till I went to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Then I forced myself to read about her and her diary. At the start she is just an every day girl having fun and tells you about her daily life. All is then taken away in hiding and she talks about house mates and how things get worse. No where does she express hate for the evils but instead worries for the others suffering in the holocaust Disabled, Jews, Gypsies, etc.

Its why Im am always reminded that Racisim should never be allowed to extremes. 6 million individual lives who all had contributions to society all taken away. This book should be read by everyone. At the end of the day we are all much the same. Ignorance is the watch word. Read, ask and learn about other peoples ways faiths (where they come from first) then draw conclusions!

Anne Frank's diary - Rated
Anne Frank's diary is a grand testimony of a times when Jews were harshly persecuted and later murdered in concentration camps under the Nazi dictatorship. The diary shows the impact persecution, constant fear and hiding had on the life of a young girl, who had done no harm to anyone. Anne tried to live a life as "normal" as possible in a situation that can only be described as horrific. Anne's testimony brings us closer to the human tragedy that genocides, in this case the most horrendous Holocaust, inflict on the victims. If there is a heaven, Anne Frank is part of it. Here on earth, let us not forget the testimony she gave us. It's a testimony for humanity and for empathy. It is a testimony against isolating people and against violence. We need to at least truly attempt to stop any human suffering (may it be black, white, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist or Christian). This is how I personally interpret the legacy of Anne.

A shocking reminder - Rated
I didn't find this book compelling reading but having recently visited the house in Amsterdam where Anne and her family were hiding, I stuck with reading the mundane story to the end.

Various thoughts occurred as I turned the pages, not least wonderment at how eight people could survive for over two years without giving themselves away and also how their friends managed to feed them etc over that time.

Anne writes of the things that any girl of her age would do but, apart from the privations of captivity, there is little to glean from the book about the war and the outside world - one would not expect a girl of her age to be able to write of such things.

The great tragedy is that Anne did not survive to see the end of the war and enjoy the life to which she was entitled.

The book has sold in its millions and if I could pass a world-wide law, it would be that it was compulsory reading for every human being in the hope that it ended man's inhumanity to man everywhere. Anyone who had anything to do or any connection with the Holocaust should be forever haunted by their conscience.