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The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous – and bestselling – books of all time. Yet the girl who wrote it remains an enigma. The real Anne Frank has been lost, hidden behind the phenomenon that her posthumously published Diary produced. This concise biography will rediscover Anne Frank: telling her story from the beginning to the tragic end. It will place her life within the wider context of the Holocaust itself, and also explore her afterlife: seeking to explain why her Diary still speaks to us today.
‘Zoë Waxman's Anne Frank is all the more powerful for its unsentimental clarity. A timely reminder of life without human rights.’
Shami Chakrabarti,
18th October, 2023 in Biography & Memoir, Military
This memoir is a gripping and unusual account of a survivor of the Shoah in Holland. With impressively clear recall of his childhood and early teens – he was 11 at the outbreak of the war – Lex Lesgever writes of his years on the run and in hiding in Amsterdam and beyond. It is u…
13th January, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, Women in History
The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous – and bestselling – books of all time. Yet the girl who wrote it remains an enigma. The real Anne Frank has been hidden again, lost, behind the phenomenon of her posthumously published Diary. In the book I have just completed I ar…
15th December, 2015 in Biography & Memoir, Military, Women in History
Anne Frank’s diary is famous around the world as an eyewitness account which gives an insight into the horrors of persecution faced by Jewish people under the Nazi regime and is now a classic of war literature. Here we present a timeline of the German girl’s life: 12 June 1929 — …
