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Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a terrific story that reminds us the pain and suffering Jews went through during the WW-II, especially under the cruel regime of Hitler. Though many books and novels have been written and diaries have been collected on Holocaust literature, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank has no match. It is damp with the blood of innocent people’s lives. The diary on which she began writing was a birthday gift to her in the June of 1942, she was barely thirteen then. She was a native of Netherlands, when Hitler invaded her country she went into hiding along with her family members and some other people. They remained hidden for almost two years in the annex at the back of Otto's company building in Amsterdam. Unfortunately when they were found out in 1944 by the Gestapo and the Dutch police, they were taken to the concentration camps. Later, she died of typhus in 1945, imagine a beautiful girl dying at the age of fifteen. Her diary and o...