Annelieas “Anne” Frank was born to Otto and Edith Frank on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. (www.biography.com/people/anne-frank-9300892) On Anne’s thirteenth birthday she receives a present from her parents, which was a diary, but little did she know at the time her journal entries would become famous and a part of literary history. (www.annefrank.org) See Anne was just a normal teenage girl living in Germany going through the horrible events like everyone else was. A numerous amount of children Anne’s age kept a diary when the war was happening, so it was not out of the ordinary for her to have kept one. (www.annefrank.org) The thing is diaries were not published back in those days. When the war ended Anne’s father, Frank Otto was …show more content…
They were questioned and kept overnight. On August 5, 1944, they were relocated to the Huisvan Bewaring, which is translates, House of Detention. Due to the overcrowding they were moved to the Westbrook transit camp, when they go their more than 100,000 Jews had already died. Since the Franks were arrested while in hiding, they were treated as fugitives and ordered to the Punishment Barracks for tough grunt work. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank) When Otto go back to Amsterdam Miep Gies, a family friend of the Franks, handed him five notebooks and over three hundred loose papers that was Anne’s journal entries from the Secret Annex, after the Franks’ got arrested Mr. Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer. (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/Anne-Frank/print) Mr. Frank helped put together a hard copy and it was published in the Netherlands in 1947 as “Het Acheterhuis”. The United States at first turned down publishing it, stating it was too gloomy. It was eventually published in 1952 as “ The Diary of A Young Girl”. (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/anne-frank/print) Anne’s diary has been contemplated to being banned due to “pornographic” entries when Anne takes about discovering her body. (www.guaridan.com/books/2013/may/07/annefrankdiary-us-schools-censorship) In 1999, Time labeled Anne Frank amidst the heroes of the twentieth century on the list, The Most