Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Essay | Critical Essay #2

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Critical Essay #2

In the following essay, Goertz "explores the various manifestations of hiding in and surrounding " The Diary of Anne Frank.

Ever since the Gestapo entered into the rooms where eight people had been hiding for almost two years, the so-called Secret Annex in the center of Amsterdam has become one of the most famous and visited hiding places of Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Anne Frank's diary, begun in 1942 as a confidential correspondence to an imaginary friend and then revised with an eye to future publication, now counts as the most widely read document of the Holocaust. The diary has appeared in several edited and unedited editions since it was first recovered from the floor of the evacuated Annex. A comparison of these versions reveals how Anne's voice has been shaped, some even say censored, by different editorial hands. This fact was again brought to the...
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