Found in the secret annex in which it was written, Anne Frank's diary was circulated by her father after Anne's death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her diary is more than the inner thoughts of a perceptive 鈥 and sometimes frustrated 鈥 adolescent on the verge of womanhood. This important account by a Jew in hiding during the Holocaust has given millions of readers a voice through which to grasp the staggering loss of life enacted by the Nazis.
