The diary of a young girl

In 1942, the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, continuing their onslaught against all of Europe and their orchestrated genocide of all the Jews.

As the Nazis wrested control, a young girl received a personal diary for her thirteenth birthday. She began writing in it two days later, and named it “Kitty”. Like any ordinary girl, Anne wrote about ordinary things.

Things like her love and respect for her father, her difficult relationship with her mother and her affection for her sister.

What sets Anne’s diary apart from that of any other are the detailed accounts of the atrocities committed by the Nazis as they seized the Netherlands.

Anne addressed imaginary friends, but ultimately settled with just “Kitty”. By the second volume, Anne had described alarming incidents within the Nazi-controlled Netherlands. Her diaries explain what her family goes through from June 1942 to April 1944, and were originally in three volumes.

This is an English translation of the Dutch original, and stands as a symbol of the suffering faced by countless men and women in the Netherlands during the Nazi reign of terror.