A Hay Festival & The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl Anne Frank Today The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the diary begins &12 June 1942 I hope I will be able to confide everything to you as I have never been able to confide in anyone & I hope you will be a great source of comfort & support& The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated & enduring books of the last century Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 & it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript which was deleted from the original edition It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about & tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality & who also veered between being a carefree child & an aware adult Anne Frank & her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family & a German dentist Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe Anne kept a diary She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger the daily threat of discovery & death & being cut off from the outside world as well as petty misunderstandings & the unbearable strain of living like prisoners The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation For young readers & adults it continues to bring to life Anne&s extraordinary courage & struggle throughout her ordeal This is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank was born on the 12 June 1929 She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen three months short of her sixteenth birthday This seventieth anniversary definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl is poignant heartbreaking & a book that everyone should read