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A collection of articles and memoirs that provide insight into the life, death, and legacy of Anne Frank, a young Holocaust victim whose diary provided first-hand information about her family's experiences hiding from the Nazis.

Contains the letters of a twenty-two year correspondence between a young girl from California, Wilson, and the father of Anne Frank, Otto.

Contains primary source materials, collected to complement the reading of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," that provide information about what was going on in the world outside the secret annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis for two years.

Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.

Presents excerpts from the correspondence between Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, and Cara Wilson, an American girl who turned to Otto for advice in the midst of her chaotic teen years and continued writing him until his death, twenty years later.

Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

Presents critical essays on "The Diary of Anne Frank" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Contains essays, documents, and discussion materials that provide insight into the politcal and social context in which Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," was written.