The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank received her diary as a present on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942. She and her family are Jews living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Holland, during World War II. Anne uses her diary to document every day details, events, and occurrences that she and her family encounter during the war, as well as reflections on her thoughts and emotions.
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"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end."
- February 3, 1944
"It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more"
- July 15, 1944