The Diary of Anne Frank , first published in its original Dutch edition in 1947—70 years ago-- documents the lives of two Jewish families living hidden in a secret attic in Amsterdam, Holland between 1942 and 1944, as described through the words of a 13- to 15-year-old girl. She wrote about the group’s day-to-day survival under constant threat of capture—and worse. Her writings, intelligent, witty and candid, deal with her relationships with her fellow fugitives; her first love; her ideals and aspirations; her reflections on good and evil; and her hopes for a future that never came. They were arrested by the Gestapo in the late summer of 1944; Anne died in a concentration camp in February or March of 1945 at the age of 15. Anne’s diary was published in English five years after the original Dutch version, in 1952. Three years later Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted Anne’s writings into a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. In 1997 Wendy Kesselman published her own new adaptation of
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