Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler translated by Susan Massotty and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel author of Night.June 1942 I hope I will be able to confide everything to you as I have never been able to confide in anyone and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.In Amsterdam in the summer of 1942 the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years they another family and a German dentist lived in a secret annexe fearing discovery. All that time Anne kept a diary. Since its publication in 1947 Anne Franks diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition giving us a deeper insight into Anne Franks world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality the conflicts with her mother her passion for Peter a boy whose family hid with hers and her acute portraits of her fellow prisoners reveal Anne as more human more vulnerable and more vital than ever.One of the greatest books of the twentieth centuryGuardianA modern classicJulia Neuberger The Times