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
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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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ANNE FRANK
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.