Anne Frank- The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank was a young girl who had to go into hiding due to the holocaust. She wrote a diary and her diary can be bought as a book in many different languages all over the world. The story has moved millions of people, us included so we thought we would write about Anne Frank's diary. We cannot help being inspired by Anne Frank and admiring her courage and bravery. She did something that we don't think we would ever be able to do. To walk away from her life and be hidden away from her friends, her school, her home and even daylight must have been absolutely awful for her and she coped with it so well. We can't even imagine having to go through something like that as a young girl. We think that it takes something emotional like a diary for everyone to truly understand what Anne and thousands of other Jews were going through. Throughout the diary you have access to her thoughts and everything that goes on in her life so it really helps you to imagine her situation. Her diary allows you as a reader to fully understand her emotions and truly empathise in her new life that she has to live. Although some great things have been written, we believe that however many sources that have been written about the holocaust and the brutal way that the Jews were treated, no-one can ever fully appreciate what it was like for girls like Anne and for all the others who suffered. We can never fully appreciate how terrible the situation was. We were all extremely moved by Anne's diary and it made us fully understand why she is so famous all over the world and why her house is such a big destination in the Netherlands.

To finish, here are some quotes from Anne's diary:

'Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.'

'Despite everything I think that people are really good at heart'

'Sympathy, love, fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend not to use them!'

'People can tell you to keep your mouth shut but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.' 

'How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.'

'What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.'

' I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.'

'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!'