The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. [...] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. [...] Everyone is scared.” I, unfortunately, am thinking of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank a lot these days. To be clear, the unfortunateness of this is not due to the quality of the book--it is 100% due to the terrible things happening outside (as Frank would've phrased it). When she was just 13, Frank and her family went into hiding due to Hitler's increasing disturbing actions. With aspirations of wanting to be a writer, Frank kept a diary during her time in the attic hiding place. After two years in hiding, the Frank family was captured and sent to concentration camps. Frank would die before the camp she was in was liberated (likely of typhus). She was only 15. Frank's father, Otto Frank, survived and found that his daughter's diary had also. He had it publish...
