Diary Of a Young Girl

The period of World War II, especially with reference to the German invasions and persecutions of the Jews by the Nazi is one of the darkest periods in the course of humanity. This journal of a teenage girl who along with her family was forced into hiding and had to go through a series of tragedies and total disruption of their everyday lives, brings to light the tortures that people had to go through owing to tyranny of the leaders. The book offers an innocent account of how the girl, Anne, who was transported from her regular life, of school, friends and infatuations, to life of morbid horror and constant fear. An abrupt silent towards the end of the book, screams about the unfortunate end to the plans, visions and future that one weaves with so much hope.