The Diary of a Young Girl

"The Diary of Anne Frank" redirects here. For other uses, see The Diary of Anne Frank (disambiguation).

The Diary of a Young Girl
1948 first edition
AuthorAnne Frank
Original titleHet Achterhuis
TranslatorB. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday
Cover artistHelmut Salden
LanguageDutch
Subject
GenreAutobiography
Jewish literature
PublisherContact Publishing [nl]
Publication date
25 June 1947
Publication placeNetherlands
Published in English
1952
AwardsLe Monde's 100 Books of the Century
OCLC1432483
949.207
LC ClassDS135.N6
Original text
Het Achterhuis at Dutch Wikisource

The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only survivor, just after the Second World War was over.

The diary has since been published in more than 70 languages. It was first published under the title Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (Dutch: [ət ˈɑxtərˌɦœys]; The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing [nl] in Amsterdam in 1947. The diary received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Vallentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952. Its popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they adapted for the screen for the 1959 movie version. The book is included in several lists of the top books of the 20th century.[1][2][3][4][5]

The copyright of the Dutch version of the diary, published in 1947, expired on 1 January 2016, seventy years after the author's death, as a result of a general rule in copyright law of the European Union. Following this, the original Dutch version was made available online.[6][7]

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  3. ^ "List of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century, #20". National Review. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  4. ^ Books of the Century: War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism. New York Public Library. 1996. ISBN 978-0-19-511790-5.
  5. ^ "Top 100 Books of the 20th century, while there are several editions of the book. The publishers made a children's edition and a thicker adult edition. There are hardcovers and paperbacks, #26". Waterstone's. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  6. ^ Attard, Isabelle (1 January 2016). "Vive Anne Frank, vive le Domaine Public" [Long live Anne Frank, long live the Public Domain] (in French). Retrieved 8 July 2019. The files are available in TXT and ePub format.
  7. ^ Avenant, Michael (5 January 2016). "Anne Frank's diary published online amid dispute". It Web. Retrieved 8 January 2016.