During World War II, the Nazis [not-seez], who controlled Germany, conquered most of Europe. They forced millions of people, most of them Jewish, into concentration camps—prisons, where most were killed. Some Jewish people were able to hide from the Nazis.
A young Jewish girl named Anne Frank hid with her family in a secret building in Amsterdam, Holland for almost two years. During that time she kept a diary, or journal. Anne and her family were eventually discovered and sent to a concentration camp, where Anne was killed. Her diary, which had been left behind, was saved. Since Anne’s death, millions of people have read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
In this lesson, you will explore how Anne’s writing demonstrates what she went through while she was in hiding from the Nazis, and how those experiences affected her character—her way of thinking and acting.