The Diary Of Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl)

A book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended on this day in 1944 by the Gestapo. Anne Frank would die of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

Printing History

Written by Annelies Marie Frank (1929-1945)

as 

Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 

(The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944)

Contact Publishing 

Amsterdam 

1947 

as

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl 

Doubleday & Company

1952 

Play

Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

1955

Movie

1959

Directed by George Stevens

Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 

Cast

Millie Perkins as Anne Frank
Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank 

Shelley Winters as Petronella van Daan
Richard Beymer as Peter van Daan
Gusti Huber as Edith Frank
Lou Jacobi as Hans van Daan
Diane Baker as Margot Frank
Douglas Spencer as Kraler
Dodie Heath as Miep
Ed Wynn as Albert Dussell