The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) (edit title/settings)

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• Anne Frank: Young Jewish girl who hides with her family from the Nazis Invasion.
• Otto Frank: Father of Anne and Margot Frank. Husband of Edith Frank. Anne often calls him by a pet name, Pim.
• Edith Frank: Mother of Margot and Anne. Wife of Otto. Called 'Mother'
• Margot Frank: Anne's older sister, age 16
• Peter van Daan: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, Anne's best friend as well as possible boyfriend. He is someone that Anne confided in and talked to and loved just like a brother.
• Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler, the Führer in Germany at the time of WWII.
• Kitty: The name that Anne gave to her diary. She addresses her entries in form of a letter to Kitty.
• Albert Dussel: The dentist that shares a room with Anne Frank and Margot Frank. Dr. Dussel goes into hiding with the Franks and the Van Daans.
• Miep Santrouschitz Gies: One among many family friends who help Anne's family out in the Annex
• Mr. Hermann van Daan: Mrs. Van Daan's husband; father of Peter.
• Mrs. Petronella van Daan: Mr. Van Daan's wife; mother of Peter.
• Mr. Victor Kugler: A friend of Anne's father who helps them while their stay at the Secret Annex
• Mr. Johannes Kleiman: One among many family friends who help Anne's family out in the Annex
• Elizabeth "Bep" Voskuijl Wijk: One among many family friends who help Anne's family out in the Annex
• Mouschi: The cat that lived with them in the Annex
• Jan Gies: Miep's husband
• Hanneli Goslar: Anne's ex best-friend. She's called Lies at school. She's usually shy--outspoken at home, but reserved around other people.
• Mr. Pieter Gerbrandy: He was the Prime Minister of the Dutch government in exile in London.
• Bertus: Add a description of this character.
• Boche
• Mr Dreher
• Mr Voskuiji
• Hello Silberberg: He is Wilma's cousin and a nice boy. He is sixteen and good at telling all kinds of funny stories. He falls in love with Anne, though Anne just considers him a very close friend.
• Moortje: The Franks' cat
• Ilse Wagner: Hanneli's best friend. She is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she's extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something. She's very smart, but lazy.
• Jacqueline van Maarsen: Anne met her at the Jewish Lyceum. She used to be Anne's best friend.
• Sanne Ledermann: Anne's best friend.
• Aunt Helene: Anne's aunt
• Aunt Stephanie: Anne's aunt
• Aunt Leny: Anne's aunt
• Betty Bloemendaal: Anne's classmate. She looks kind of poor, and she probably is. She lives on some obscure street in West Amsterdam.
• D.Q.: She is a very nervous girl who's always forgetting things.
• E.S.: She talks so much it isn't funny. She's always touching one's hair or fiddling with your buttons when she asks you something.
• Henny Mets: She is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, except that she talks in a loud voice and is really childish when playing outdoors. She has a girlfriend named Beppy.
• J.R.: She is detestable, sneaky, stuck-up, two-faced gossip who thinks she's so grown-up. She is easily offended, bursts into tears at the slightest thing and she is a terrible show-off.
• Nannie van Praag-Sigaar: She is small, funny and sensible. She's nice and pretty smart.
• Eefje de Jong: She is terrific. Though she's only twelve, she's quite the lady. She is very helpful.
• G.Z.: The prettiest girl in Anne's class. She has a nice face, but is kind of dumb.
• Maurice Coster: One of Anne's many admirers, but he is pretty much a pest.
• Mrs Wilson
• Sallie Springer: He has a filthy mind, and rumor has it that he's gone all the way. But he's terrific because he's very funny.
• Emiel Bonewit: He is G.Z.'s admirer. He's pretty boring.
• Rob Cohen: He used to be in love with Anne, too. For Anne, he's an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof and has an awfully high opinion of himself.
• Max van de Velde: He is a farm boy from Medemblik, but eminently suitable.
• Herman Koopman: He has a filthy mind, just like Jopie de Beer.
• Jopie de Beer.: He is a terrible flirt and absolutely girl crazy.
• Leo Blom: Jopie de Beer's best friend, but has been ruined bu his dirty mind.
• Albert de Mesquita: He came from the Montessori School and skipped a grade. He's really smart.
• Leo Slager: He came from the Montessori School, but isn't as smart as Albert.
• Ru Stoppelmon: He is a short, goofy boy from Almelo who transferred to Anne's school in the middle of the year.
• C.N.: He does whateverhe's not supposed to.
• Jacques Kocernoot: He is Anne's classmate.
• Harry Schaap: He is the most decent boy in Anne's class. He's nice.
• Werner Joseph: He's also nice, but all the changes taking place lately have made him too quiet, so he seems boring.
• Sam Salomon: He is one of the tough guys from across the tracks. He is a real brat. He is an admirer of Anne.
• Appie Riem: He is pretty Orthodox, but a brat too.
• Hello Silberberg: He is Wilma's cousin and a nice boy. He is sixteen and good at telling all kinds of funny stories.
• Mr. Voskuijl: Bep's father who works in the company's workhouse.
• Mr. van Maaren: The man who works in the warehouse who was suspicious about the Annex.
• Mr. Gerrit Bolkenstein: He is the Cabinet Minister who wanted to create a collection out of letters and diaries during the war. He was the Minister of Education.
• Winston Churchill: Prime minister of Great Britain.

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• “Thursday, July 6, 1944..."How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experiment that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!""”

  Anne Frank

• “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

• “And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”

• “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

• “Oh dearie me, I see nothing but strawberries, strawberries at breakfast, strawberries stewed by Miep, I smell strawberries, must have a rest from them and go upstairs--what is being washed up here...strawberries.”

  Kraler

• “I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.”

  Anne Frank

• “Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.”

  Anne Frank

• “Paper has more patience than people.”

  Anne Frank

• “Memories mean more to me than dresses.”

  Anne Frank

• “I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!”

  Anne Frank

• “Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.”

  Anne Frank

• “Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!”

  Anne Frank

• “Every act of carelessness begins and ends.”

  Anne Frank

• “But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”

  Anne Frank

• “Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”

  Anne Frank

• “You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people.”

  Anne Frank

• “People will do almost anything to satisfy their longing.”

  Anne Frank

• “I loved him so much that I didn't want to face the truth.”

  Anne Frank

• “Time heals all wounds.”

  Anne Frank

• “And yet it still hurts to think he'd forgotten me completely.”

  Anne Frank

• “I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all magnitude. ♥”

  Anne Frank

• “As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”

  Anne Frank

• “I fall asleep with his image before my eyes, dream about him and wake up with him still looking at me. ♥”

  Anne Frank (Referring to Peter)

• “People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.”

  Anne Frank

• “A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

  Anne Frank

• “The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!”

  Anne Frank

• “What could be nicer than sitting before an open window, enjoying nature, listening to the birds sing, feeling the sun on your cheeks and holding a darling boy in your arms? ♥”

  Anne Frank

• “Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”

  Anne Frank

• “Every child has to raise itself.”

  Otto Frank

• “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”

  Anne Frank

• “I don't dare to anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.”

  Jacques Kocernoot

• “G.Z. is the prettiest girl in our class. She has a nice face, but is kind of dumb. I think they're going to hold her back a year, but of course I haven't told her that.”

  Anne Frank

• “"Whoever is happy will make others happy."”

  Anne Frank

• ““In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.””

• “"paper has more patience than people"”

• “"I want to go on living even after my death"”

  Anne Frank

• “We cannot control our destiny,but we can control who we become”

  Anne Frank

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Amsterdam
• Secret Annex: The part of Otto's office where the Franks and the others hid.
• 263 Prinsengracht: Address of Dutch Opekta Company
• England
• Germany
• Italy
• Great Britain
• Russia
• Cherbourg
• Belgium
• Frankfurt
• France
• London
• Dutch Opekta Copany: This is where Otto works.
• Jewish Lyceum: Anne's school.

Organizations edit see section history

• Nazis: Hitler's army who took Jews hostage and killed them
• Hitler Youth: A youth group sponsered by Nazis.
• Zionists: Add a description of this organization.
• Free Netherlands: a resistance group
• The Gestapo: Hitlers Police Force

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Glossary edit see section history

• Kitty: The name Anne has given to her diary. (Dear Kitty...)
• Food Cycle: It is a period in which one have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat.
• Pim: The nickname that Anne called her father.
• W.C.: The "water closet" was another name for the bathroom.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Perseverance: Describe this theme.
• Hope
• Heroes
• World History
• Prejudice and Racism
• Heroism

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Anne Frank (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. B. M. Mooyaart (Translator)
2. Susan Massotty (Translator)
3. Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
4. Otto Frank (Editor)
5. Helmut Salden (Cover Artist)
6. Bantam (Publisher)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
• National Book Award

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: DS135.N6F73313 2010
• Dewey: 940.5318092

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Grade/Reading Level: 6.5 Interest Level: Grades 6-8

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( F ) › Frank, Anne
• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( F ) › Frank, Anne
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › Holocaust

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• The Freedom Writers Foundation: This website contains information about a story in which a class full of 9th graders tell their own personal stories in the format of a journal/diary. It was made into a movie that ties in perfectly with The Diary of Anne Frank, and is an excellent way to teach students how each one of them - and all of us as well - must be advocates for peace. We must all stand united to stop the prejudice and hate in the world.

Movie Connections edit see section history

• The Diary of Anne Frank (IMDb): 2009
• Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story (IMDb): 1996
• Anne Frank Remembered (IMDb): 1995
• The Diary of Anne Frank (IMDb): 1959
• The Freedom Writers: This story is about a whole class of students who write diaries and read The Diary of Anne Frank, which gives them the courage to stand up for change.

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