Anne Frank Diary Entries

On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank’s parents give her a diary. She was excited because she wanted someone or something in which to confide all of her secret thoughts. Even though she has a rich social life, she felled misunderstood by everyone she knows. Anne starts writing about daily events, her thoughts, school grades, boys, all that.

But, within a month, her entire life changes.

As Jews in German-occupied Holland, the Frank family fears for their lives. When Anne’s sister, Margot, is called to appear before the authorities which would almost surely mean she was being sent to a concentration camp Anne and her family go into hiding. They move into a little section of Anne's father's office building that is walled off and hidden behind a swinging bookcase. The little diagram of the office building and "Secret Annex" in the Thursday, July 9, 1942 entry gives us the layout.