A diary as a best friend

Anne Frank starts keeping a diary from her thirteenth birthday. She takes the diary to the hiding place, of course. Anne enters the Secret Annex as a girl, but grows into a young woman there. She spends more time thinking about life, and records her thoughts in her diary.

Anne Frank and her diary

Anne doesn’t just keep a diary during her time in the Secret Annex. She also writes short stories and collects her favourite sentences by other writers in a notebook. Anne hopes for her diary to be published as a novel after the war. That’s why she starts rewriting it. But Anne never manages to finish it. She's discovered and arrested before she completes her work.

Anne throws herself into writing She has a diary, but also writes short stories too

Besides her diary and the stories, Anne also writes her “favorite quotes” in a separate notebook.

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Rewriting for publication Anne hopes her diary might be published after the war

In May 1944, the idea of this novel takes on serious form.

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Taken seriously as a writer at last? The various versions of Anne’s diary

In 1998, the emergence of five unknown pages written by Anne Frank once again focused attention on her diary...

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Anne Frank Timeline

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Anne writes:

Writing...

“The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings; otherwise I’d absolutely suffocate”.

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Anne's surroundings

Anne Frank

Otto and Edith’s daughter, Margot’s sister Anne often plays the clown, but has a serious side too

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Otto Frank

Otto sets up a business in the Netherlands. After that, his family can come over too.

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Edith Frank

Edith has trouble settling down in the Netherlands.

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Fritz Pfeffer

Fritz is a handsome, charming man.

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Peter van Pels

Peter is a quiet boy who likes to work with his hands.

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Comments (52)

Anne is someone who I could look up to. I remeber when I was 9 I was trying to make my own book. Now I'm 12 and my next book will be about her. She inspiries my to write. Anne Frank, R.I.P, 1945

Precious, 12 - Greensboro - United States - 3 Feb 2012 Comment on: Anne throws herself into writing

I'm doing a project on Anne Frank. I chose to do it on her because of her strengh and how determined she was to write. She is an inspiration:)

Mandy, United States - 27 Jan 2012 Comment on: Anne Frank, the writer

Anne was a deep and lonely girl, after the Nazis destroyed her life. they made her life uncomfortable but she wrote up her thought for people so that people could get know of how she felt.

Sidra, 11 - Lahore - Pakistan - 15 Jan 2012 Comment on: Anne throws herself into writing

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