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This collection first published in Great Britain 2019

The Diary of a Young Girl:

First published in the United States of America by Doubleday 1995

First published in Great Britain by Viking 1997

Published in Penguin Books 1997

Reprinted with further previously unpublished material by Doubleday 2001

Published in Penguin Books 2001, 2007

Copyright The Anne Frank Fonds, Basle, Switzerland, 1991, 2001

English translation copyright Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., 1995, 2001 Photographs copyright The Anne Frank Fonds, Basle, Switzerland All rights reserved

Selected materials from The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition and
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition published by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Translations from the German language by Kirsten Warner and translations from the Dutch language by Nancy Forest-Flier published by arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd.

Tales and Events from the Secret Annexe:

This compilation was first published in Dutch by Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, 1982, under the title Verhaaltjes, en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis

This translation was first published as Anne Franks Tales from the Secret Annexe in the USA by Bantam Books, New York, 2003

The complete and revised edition was published as Tales from the Secret Annexe and Cadys Life in The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, Doubleday, New York, 2003 Portions of this work were previously published in Tales from the House Behind (Worlds Work, Kingswood [Surrey], 1962; Pan Books, London, 1965) and Tales from the Secret Annexe (Viking, 1985; Penguin Books, London 1986)

Anne Franks Tales from the Secret Annexe published by arrangement with Halban Publishers, London

Copyright 1947, 1960 by Otto Frank

Copyright 1982, 2003, 2010 by Anne Frank Fonds, Basle

English translation copyright 2003, 2010 by Susan Massotty

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Contents

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In Memory of Peter Mayer
19362018

The range of Anne Franks work is small yet at the same time extensive. When the Frank family was deported from its hiding place in Amsterdam by the National Socialists, Anne was fifteen years old. The families in the secret annexe had been betrayed. Anne and her sister died after deportation to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen.

Seen against this background, the range of Anne Franks preserved work is immense. In this complete edition, all known texts by Anne Frank have been published together for the first time: diaries, stories, essays, compositions and letters. They are not only evidence of the extraordinary talent of the girl, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, but also show a tradition and culture of writing that had been cultivated in the family (and that may seem somewhat whimsical today and not only to young people).

In this complete edition, the Anne Frank Fonds has made all texts by Anne Frank available in one volume and has done so in a popular edition complete with context, explanations and additional material. The complete edition is suitable as primary and secondary literature for students and for teachers. It brings together, in Mirjam Pressler and Francine Prose, renowned experts on Anne Frank texts and, in Gerhard Hirschfeld, an outstanding and widely recognized historian.

The Anne Frank Fonds was founded in 1963 by Anne Franks father, Otto, the only survivor of the family, and was designated as its universal heir. After the first publication of the diary in 1947 and the reactions from around the world, Otto Frank dared to hope that it would not only be a unique testimony of contemporary history but also a lasting global success. The Anne Frank Fonds uses income from book sales and theatre and film rights for charitable and educational purposes around the world, in the spirit of Anne and Otto Frank.

The main concern of the Anne Frank Fonds is to spread Anne Franks timeless message of peace, justice and humanism around the world for each new generation by means of the authentic texts. At the same time, it has always been an aim of the Anne Frank Fonds to present the history of the Jewish Frank family in all its dimensions and in its historical and cultural context. This publication of all Anne Franks texts bridges a gap and at the same time closes the circle of her work.

BASLE, OCTOBER 2018

Further information is available on www.annefrank.ch

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION

Anne Frank

Edited by Mirjam Pressler

Translated by Susan Massotty

For her 13th birthday on 12 June 1942 in Amsterdam, Anne Frank was given a diary by her parents and started to write letters in it to Kitty, her imaginary friend. In the first weeks, Anne wrote in her room in her parents apartment in Merwedeplein. However, soon after her birthday, the family went into hiding in a secret annexe with four other people to escape the Nazis. At first, Anne only wrote the letters for herself, but in spring 1944, while listening to a banned foreign radio station with her family, she heard a Dutch minister in exile in London, Gerrit Bolkestein, suggest the publication, after the war, of selected diaries and letters documenting the German occupation. Inspired by this broadcast, Anne decided to publish a novel entitled Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annexe) to be published once the war was over; her diary would form the basis of this book.

Annes diary ends with the entry of 1 August 1944. Three days later, on 4 August, she and the other inhabitants of the secret annexe were discovered, arrested, deported and with the exception of Otto Frank who survived the war and was the only occupant of the secret annexe to return from the concentration camp killed. To this day, it is not known with certainty how the occupants of the secret annexe were betrayed and by whom.

PUBLISHING HISTORY

On the day of the arrest, the helpers of the families Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl gathered up Anne Franks notes. During the war, Miep Gies kept them. Once the war had ended and it had been confirmed that Anne was no longer alive, she gave them to Anne Franks father, Otto Frank, on his return from the concentration camp.