“The Diary of Anne Frank” is one of the world’s most famous and widely read books, with a print run of 30 million copies, and it has become a symbol of the indomitable strength of the human spirit. After the war, Anne Frank—who died in a concentration camp in March 1945—wanted to publish her diary under the title “The Secret Annex.” However, for seventy years, readers knew the diary of a Dutch schoolgirl only through editions compiled by editors from its various versions. In this book, for the first time in Russian, the final author’s version of the diary is presented—one that was released in the West only in 2019. This is exactly the text that Anne Frank herself wanted to see in bookstores.
Hiding from the Nazis in the “secret annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, besides the diary, she also wrote thirty essays and personal memories known as “Tales from the Secret Annex,” and she didn’t finish a novel. Anne Frank’s literary works together with the complete version of her diary give readers a stunning understanding of Nazi occupation and the tragedy of the Holocaust.
In A4 PDF format, the publisher’s layout has been preserved.