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The diary of a young girl- Anne Frank
I had planned read this book years ago, the portuguese version, by the way but I ended up reading other books and postponing the experience with THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL.
Years later, specifically in 2020, came up the opportunity to read the english version, as part o my project to read books in other languages.
It was a great experience. It?s about a real diary written by a young girl, as the book?s name purposes. This young girl is Anne Frank. She wrote it while she and her family were in hiding for two years during Nazi occupation in Netherlands.
They lived there with other jews families trying to survive in precarious conditions to scape from nazism.
During the reading, we can understand more about her routine, the fears and distress of that young girl. Unfortunately, Anne and all her family were apprehended. The girl died of typhus in a concentration camp.
The family lived in Frankfurt and suddenly had to escape to Amsterdam during the World War II. There are many important lessons in this book, like all the people have the right to be in freedom and how dangerous are the intolerance and a sickly mind like Hitler?s.
I highly recommend this book to people that are interested in read more about the damages of the War in a society.