The Diary of Anne Frank Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to escape imprisonment in concentration camps by Nazi soldiers, where death was almost certain. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who …showed first 75 words of 833 total…

…showed last 75 words of 833 total…thoughts engulfing the total emotions of the situations gives the book a human side often missed in recounts of history. The reader experiences the gripping details of a family and a child dealing with extraordinary situations as they try to survive in hiding. Thanks to the carelessness of Nazi soldiers taking Anne and her family into custody the literary world was given the opportunity to experience captivity of a young woman through her own eyes.