Anne didn’t just keep a diary. She also wrote tales and planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex. After the war, Otto Frank fulfilled her wish. Since then, Anne Frank's diary has been translated into more than 75 languages. Discover the story behind the diary of Anne Frank.
The complete works of Anne Frank When reading about The diary of Anne Frank, most people assume that a single diary is all there is. But in reality, Anne's work comprises much more. Here you can read what Anne wrote and how it all merged into the book you can now find in the bookstore.
How did Anne Frank's diary become one of the most-read books in the world? And how did Anne become an international icon? Read here how Anne's diary still inspires millions of readers.
Anne Frank's diary is now available in over 75 languages. Until his death in 1980, Otto Frank continued to receive reactions from readers from all over the world, who had been moved by the book.
The handwritten manuscript of Anne Frank's diaries on the basis of which Otto Frank compiled the first edition of The Secret Annex (1947) consists of a red-checkered booklet, two cardboard notebooks and over 200 sheets of copy paper. Otto also included four short stories by Anne in his edition. [1] It is customary to refer to these manuscripts successively as diary A1, A2, A3 (A-version) and ...
Many readers of Anne Frank’s diary do not know that Anne also kept a special ‘book of beautiful sentences’, as she called it (diary, 18 April 1944). In this notebook, Anne copied texts from books she read in the Secret Annex.