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The Diary Of A Young GirlSee also main article: Anne Frank for further discussion of the diary and her life.'' The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is based upon a diary kept during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands during World War II. Anne Frank was a thirteen year old Jewish girl, when she and her parents and sister went into hiding in rooms connected to her father, Otto Frank's company in Amsterdam. The family was joined by four other people, and for two years they remained in hiding, aided by employees of her father's company. They were then betrayed and arrested, and were sent to concentration camps. Of the group of eight people, only Otto Frank survived the war. Anne Frank and her sister Margot both died in Bergen Belsen from typhus. Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and found that the diary kept by his daughter during their confinement. Various publishers rejected it, but the historian Jan Romein wrote a newspaper article about it when generated interest, and it was first published in 1947. It sold moderately and a second run was published in 1950. It was first published in the United States in 1952. A successful play and movie based on the diary helped to stimulate interest, and the book became widely read in schools throughout the world. In the years since its first publication it has been translated from its original Dutch into many languages, and has been consistently popular over a number of years. The writing style of Anne Frank has been praised for its maturity and literary style, and the author has often been cited as an example of courage and inspiration, with leaders as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt and Nelson Mandela describing her writing as inspirational. The diary has also been the subject of controversy with Holocaust deniers making efforts to discredit its authenticity. A forensic study of the diary in 1986 examined the handwriting and found it to be consistent with known examples of Anne Frank's handwriting, and that the paper, ink and glue found in the diary were consistent with materials available in Amsterdam during the period the diary was written. ISBN 0385473788 (1st US ed.)
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