The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank • 1947
Devastation Rating
Holocaust diary Amsterdam youth
Our Take
Anne Frank wrote about boredom, crushes, family arguments, and her own becoming — the ordinary preoccupations of adolescence — while hiding from people who wanted to kill her. The diary is devastating not because of its ending but because of its aliveness. She was so fully herself.
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