The genesis of Anne Frank's Diary – a legacy for humanity

• Autor(a) principal: Cornelsen, Elcio Loureiro
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14538
• topic: Anne Frank; Diário; Shoah; Anne Frank; Diary; Shoah

Our contribution aims at a brief presentation of the genesis of Anne Frank's Diary, one of the most read works since its first publication in the late 1940s. In addition to focusing on the life stages of Anne Frank and her family, since the escape from Germany in 1933, the life in Holland and the confinement in a hiding place from 1942, when Amsterdam was invaded by German army troops, until arrest and deportation to the Nazi concentration and death camps in August 1944, we will also discuss the specificities of the four versions of the diary, as well as some strategies adopted by Anne Frank to produce her intimate account of the hardships of confinement and a world that crumbled around her.