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  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

  Anne Frank

  THE DIARY OF

  A YOUNG GIRL :

  THE

  DEFINITIVE EDITION

  Anne Frank

  Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler

  Translated by Susan Massotty

  TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD

  SUNDAY,

  JUNE 14, 1942

  MONDAY,

  JUNE 15, 1942

  SATURDAY,

  JUNE 20,1942

  SATURDAY,

  JUNE 20, 1942

  SUNDAY,

  JUNE 21, 1942

  WEDNESDAY,

  JUNE 24, 1942

  WEDNESDAY,

  JULY 1, 1942

  SUNDAY,

  JULY 5, 1942

  WEDNESDAY,

  JULY 8, 1942

  THURSDAY,

  JULY 9, 1942

  FRIDAY,

  JULY 10, 1942

  SATURDAY,

  JULY 11, 1942

  SUNDAY,

  JULY 12, 1942

  FRIDAY,

  AUGUST 14, 1942 FRIDAY,

  AUGUST 21, 1942 WEDNESDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 2, 1942 MONDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 21, 1942 FRIDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 25, 1942 SUNDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 27, 1942 MONDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 28,1942 TUESDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 THURSDAY,

  OCTOBER 1, 1942 SATURDAY,

  OCTOBER 3, 1942 WEDNESDAY,

  OCTOBER 7, 1942 THE

  DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL 53 OCTOBER

  9, 1942

  WEDNESDAY,

  OCTOBER 14, 1942

  TUESDAY,

  OCTOBER 20, 1942

  THURSDAY,

  OCTOBER 29, 1942

  MONDAY,

  NOVEMBER 2, 1942

  THURSDAY,

  NOVEMBER 5, 1942

  SATURDAY,

  NOVEMBER 7, 1942

  MONDAY,

  NOVEMBER 9,1942

  TUESDAY,

  NOVEMBER 10, 1942

  THURSDAY,

  NOVEMBER 12, 1942

  TUESDAY,

  NOVEMBER 17, 1942

  PROSPECTUS

  AND GUIDE TO THE SECRET ANNEX THURSDAY,

  NOVEMBER 19, 1942

  FRIDAY,

  NOVEMBER 20, 1942

  MONDAY,

  DECEMBER 7, 1942

  THURSDAY,

  DECEMBER 10, 1942

  SUNDAY,

  DECEMBER 13, 1942

  TUESDAY,

  DECEMBER 22, 1942

  WEDNESDAY,

  JANUARY 13, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  JANUARY 30, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  FEBRUARY 5, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  FEBRUARY 27, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  MARCH 4, 1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  MARCH 10, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  MARCH 12, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  MARCH 18, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  MARCH 19, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  MARCH 25, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  MARCH 27, 1943

  APRIL 1, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  APRIL 2, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  APRIL 27, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  MAY 1, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  MAY 2, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  MAY 2, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  MAY 18, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  JUNE 13, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  JUNE 15, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  JULY 11, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  JULY 13, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  JULY 16, 1943

  MONDAY,

  JULY 19,1943

  FRIDAY,

  JULY 23, 1943

  MONDAY,

  JULY 26, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  JULY 29, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  AUGUST 3, 1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  AUGUST 4,1943

  THURSDAY,

  AUGUST 5, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  AUGUST 7, 1943

  MONDAY,

  AUGUST 9, 1943

  TUESDAY,

  AUGUST 10, 1943

  MONDAY,

  AUGUST 23, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 10, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 16, 1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  SEPTEMBER 29, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  OCTOBER 17, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  OCTOBER 29,1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  NOVEMBER 3, 1943

  MONDAY

  EVENING, NOVEMBER 8,1943 NOVEMBER 11, 1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  NOVEMBER 17, 1943

  SATURDAY,

  NOVEMBER 27, 1943

  MONDAY,

  DECEMBER 6, 1943

  FRIDAY,

  DECEMBER 24, 1943

  MONDAY,

  DECEMBER 27, 1943

  WEDNESDAY,

  DECEMBER 29, 1943

  THURSDAY,

  DECEMBER 30, 1943

  SUNDAY,

  JANUARY 2, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  JANUARY 6, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  JANUARY 6, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  JANUARY 12, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  JANUARY 15, 1944

  WEDNESDAY

  EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1944 SATURDAY,

  JANUARY 22, 1944

  MONDAY,

  JANUARY 24, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JANUARY 28, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JANUARY 28, 1944

  SUNDAY,

  JANUARY 30, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  FEBRUARY 3, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  FEBRUARY 8, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  FEBRUARY 12, 1944

  MONDAY,

  FEBRUARY 14, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  FEBRUARY 15, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  FEBRUARY 16, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  FEBRUARY 17, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  FEBRUARY 18, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  FEBRUARY 19, 1944

  SUNDAY,

  FEBRUARY 20, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  FEBRUARY 23,1944

  SUNDAY,

  FEBRUARY 27, 1944 MONDAY,

  FEBRUARY 28, 1944 WEDNESDAY,

  MARCH 1, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  MARCH 2, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  MARCH 3,1944

  SATURDAY,

  MARCH 4, 1944

  MONDAY,

  MARCH 6, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  MARCH 7,1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  MARCH 8, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  MARCH 10, 1944 SATURDAY,

  MARCH 11, 1944 SUNDAY,

  MARCH 12, 1944 TUESDAY,

  MARCH 14, 1944 THURSDAY,

  MARCH 16, 1944 THURSDAY,

  MARCH 16, 1944 FRIDAY,

  MARCH 17, 1944 SATURDAY,

  MARCH 18, 1944 SUNDAY,

  MARCH 19, 1944 MONDAY,

  MARCH 20, 1944 WEDNESDAY,

  MARCH 22,1944

  THURSDAY,

  MARCH 23, 1944 FRIDAY,

  MARCH 24, 1944 SATURDAY,

  MARCH 25, 1944 MONDAY,

  MARCH 27, 1944 TUESDAY,

  MARCH 28, 1944 WEDNESDAY,

  MARCH 29, 1944 FRIDAY,

  MARCH 31, 1944 SATURDAY,

>   APRIL 1, 1944

  MONDAY,

  APRIL 3, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  APRIL 5, 1944

  APRIL 6, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  APRIL 11, 1944

  END

  OF PART ONE

  FRIDAY,

  APRIL 14, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  APRIL 15, 1944

  SUNDAY,

  APRIL 16, 1944

  MONDAY,

  APRIL 17, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  APRIL 18,1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  APRIL 19, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  APRIL 21,1944

  TUESDAY,

  APRIL 25, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  APRIL 27, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  APRIL 28, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  MAY 2, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  MAY 3, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  MAY 5, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  MAY 6, 1944

  SUNDAY

  MORNING, MAY 7,1944 MONDAY,

  MAY 8, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  MAY 9, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  MAY 10, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  MAY 11, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  MAY 11, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  MAY 13, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  MAY 16, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  MAY 19, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  MAY 20, 1944

  MONDAY,

  MAY 22,1944

  THURSDAY,

  MAY 25, 1944

  THE

  SAME DAY

  FRIDAY,

  MAY 26, 1944

  WEDNESDAY,

  MAY 31, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JUNE 2, 1944 J

  MONDAY,

  JUNE 5, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  JUNE 6, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JUNE 9, 1944

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  TUESDAY,

  JUNE 13, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JUNE 16, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JUNE 23, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  JUNE 27, 1944

  FRIDAY,

  JUNE 30, 1944

  THURSDAY,

  JULY 6, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  JULY 8, 1944

  SATURDAY,

  JULY 15,1944

  FRIDAY,

  JULY 21, 1944

  TUESDAY,

  AUGUST 1, 1944

  AFTERWORD

  FOREWORD

  Anne Frank kept a diary from June 12, 1942, to August 1, 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public. As an example, he specifically mentioned letters and diaries.

  Impressed by this speech, Anne Frank decided that when the war was over she would publish a book based on her diary. She began rewriting and editing her diary, improving on the text, omitting passages she didn't think were interesting enough and adding others from memory. At the same time, she kept up her original diary. In the scholarly work The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition (1989), Anne's first, unedited diary is referred to as version a, to distinguish it from her second, edited diary, which is known as version b. The last entry in Anne's diary is dated August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the eight people hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, the two secretaries working in the building, found Anne's diaries strewn allover the floor. ,Miep Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer for safekeeping. After the war, when it became clear that Anne was dead, she gave the diaries, unread, to Anne's father, Otto Frank.

  After long deliberation, Otto Frank decided to fulfill his daughter's wish and publish her diary. He selected material from versions a and b, editing them into a shorter version later referred to as version c. Readers all over the world know this as The Diary of a fauna Girl.

  In making his choice, Otto Frank had to bear several points in mind. To begin with, the book had to be kept short so that it would fit in with a series put out by the Dutch publisher. In addition, several passages dealing with Anne's sexuality were omitted; at the time of the diary's initial publication, in 1947, it was not customary to write openly about sex, and certainly not in books for young adults. Out of respect for the dead, Otto Frank also omitted a number of unflattering passages about his wife and the other residents of the Secret Annex. Anne Frank, who was thirteen when she began her diary and fifteen when she was forced to stop, wrote without reserve about her likes and dislikes.

  When Otto Frank died in 1980, he willed his daughter's manuscripts to the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam. Because the authenticity of the diary had been challenged ever since its publication, the Institute for War Documentation ordered a thorough investigation. Once the diary was proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to be genuine, it was published in its entirety, along with the results of an exhaustive study. The Critical Edition contains not only versions a, band c, but also articles on the background of the Frank family, the circumstances surrounding their arrest and deportation, and the examination into Anne's handwriting, the document and the materials used.

  The Anne Frank-Fonds (Anne Frank Foundation) in Basel (Switzerland),. which as Otto Frank's sole heir had also inherited his daughter's copyrights, then decided to have anew, expanded edition of the diary published for general readers. This new edition in no way affects the integrity of the old one originally edited by Otto Frank, which brought the diary and its message to millions of people. The task of compthng the expanded edition was given to the writer and translator Mirjam Pressler. Otto Frank's original selection has now been supplemented with passages from Anne's a and b versions. Mirjam Pressler's definitive edition, approved by the Anne Frank-Fonds, contains approximately 30 percent more material and is intended to give the reader more insight into the world of Anne Frank.