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    Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 and began writing in it about her life with her family in hiding in Amsterdam to avoid Nazi persecution. She lived with her family and another family in a secret annex, where tensions arose from living in close quarters. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and arrested, with Anne and her sister dying in a concentration camp just before it was liberated. Her father was the only survivor, and her diary was published after the war.

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    Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 and began writing in it about her life with her family in hiding in Amsterdam to avoid Nazi persecution. She lived with her family and another family in a secret annex, where tensions arose from living in close quarters. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and arrested, with Anne and her sister dying in a concentration camp just before it was liberated. Her father was the only survivor, and her diary was published after the war.

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    Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 and began writing in it about her life with her family in hiding in Amsterdam to avoid Nazi persecution. She lived with her family and another family in a secret annex, where tensions arose from living in close quarters. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and arrested, with Anne and her sister dying in a concentration camp just before it was liberated. Her father was the only survivor, and her diary was published after the war.

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    The Diary of Anne Frank Summary

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    Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 and began writing in it about her life with her family in hiding in Amsterdam to avoid Nazi persecution. She lived with her family and another family in a secret annex, where tensions arose from living in close quarters. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and arrested, with Anne and her sister dying in a concentration camp just before it was liberated. Her father was the only survivor, and her diary was published after the war.

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    The Diary of Anne Frank Summary

    On June 12th, 1942, a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank receives a diary for her 13th
    birthday. She's thrilled with the present, and begins writing in it straight away, addressing many of her
    entries to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne explains that although her family is from Frankfurt,
    Germany, she now lives with her mother, father, and older sister (Margot) in Amsterdam, Holland. Her
    father is the director of the Dutch Opekta Company (a manufacturer of jam-making products). Anne
    leads a normal life – she plays with her friends, has a number of teenage boy admirers, and worries
    about her grades – until her family is forced to go into hiding when Margot receives a call-up notice from
    the SS.

    With the help of several of Mr. Frank's employees, Anne and her family take refuge in the Secret
    Annex, a suite of rooms in a house adjacent to the Opekta warehouses and offices. They are soon joined
    by the van Daan family: Mr. van Daan, Mrs. van Daan, and Peter van Daan. Peter is 16, and Anne finds
    him dull and uninteresting. Life in the Annex isn't perfect – there are a lot of quarrels, given the close
    quarters – but Anne realizes that it's far better than life on the outside, where many of the Frank's
    Jewish family and friends are being sent to concentration camps. After a few months, a middle-aged
    dentist named Alfred Dussel joins them in the Annex, where he shares a room with Anne. Anne finds
    herself at loggerheads both with Mr. Dussel and with Mrs. van Daan – they criticize Anne's chatty ways.
    Anne feels isolated, and she wonders if she'll ever have a friend she can truly confide in. Anne is haunted
    and guilt-stricken by dreams of her old friend Hanneli Goslar – to Anne, Hanneli represents the suffering
    of the Jews.

    A year and a half goes by, and Anne becomes a real teenager – she begins menstruating, and
    she begins pondering questions of sexuality, love, and personal identity. Although she initially found
    Peter uninteresting, Anne finds herself suddenly drawn to him – could it be that Peter could be someone
    she can confide in? One night, Anne has a life-changing dream about Peter "Petel" Schiff, a boy she was
    in love with during her childhood. After she has the dream, Anne finds herself feeling more independent
    and adult. She begins spending more time with Peter, and she finds that her romantic feelings
    for Petel blend into her feelings for Peter. Anne and Peter fall in love for a time, though Anne ultimately
    decides to distance herself from him. Anne decides that she wishes to become a writer and a journalist
    when she grows up, and she's excited to think that her wartime diaries might one day be published as a
    book. Anne's final entry in her diary finds her pondering who she really is – will she ever be able to
    reveal her "second" self to the world? The self that's serious, sensitive, and not at all like her chatty
    exterior? The diary ends abruptly in August, 1944.

    An afterward explains that the denizens of the Secret Annex are betrayed to the SS. Anne and
    Margot were eventually transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both die of
    typhus just a month before the camp is liberated by the Allies. Anne's father is the lone survivor of the
    Frank family, and his former employee, Miep, gave him Anne's diaries, which she found in the Annex
    after the SS ransacked it.

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