Review: The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I did a more thorough review of the later published "definitive edition": The Diary of a Young Girl. What makes this edition interesting, is the frontmatter.

There is a brief but moving preface by George Stevens, director of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), the film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. He recalls meeting Anne's father Otto and realizing the depth of courage Anne had.

Eleanor Roosevelt's introduction to this B.M. Mooyaart translation is even briefer, barely two pages. But, she makes a convincing argument for how affecting is the memoir of this "noble" spirit.

At over a dozen pages, the uncredited afterword is more extensive. It is in three parts: WW II in brief, a history of Anne's family, and a history of the book from privately circulated edition to global success.

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