The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank - So You Haven't Read

0:00 literature gives us the opportunity to experience lives perspectives and worlds different from our own though remember friend a good story has many readings and this is but one in june of 1942 while world war ii raged around them 13 year old anne frank and her four friends formed a ping pong club they initially called the club little dipper after the constellation because they thought it only had five stars and when they learned it had seven they renamed their club little dipper minus two just a month later she was hiding with her family in a secret annex above a warehouse where anne recorded all of her experiences in her now famous diary now you're almost certainly familiar with the major details of her life but in the interest of making sure we never forget let's honor anne frank's life by looking at her diary once more

0:47 [Applause] [Music] thanks so much to hellofresh for helping us talk about important works in literature so you haven't read the diary of a young girl by anne frank or maybe you've only read the version of it that was heavily edited by her father or maybe your local school board pulled it from the curriculum so you're just getting around to it now no matter the reason though let's discuss why her writings still resonate to this day this diary of a literal young girl has allowed generations of people to read a firsthand account of the horrors of the holocaust and to form an emotional bond with one of the atrocities millions of jewish victims annalise marie frank known to her friends as anna was born in 1929 in frankfurt shortly after the nazi party came to power her family moved to amsterdam where she quickly learned to speak and write dutch and she received

1:33 her diary with a red and white checkered cover for her 13th birthday on june 12th 1942 in early entries anne introduces us to her friends hanalei son jacques and elsa the other members of the little dipper -2 ping-pong club and she also tells us about her suitors notably a smitten young man named halo and a little about her beloved cat morgie and while she describes some of the restrictions placed on jews in amsterdam since the netherlands capitulated she mostly relates totally ordinary teenage stuff and then everything changes and describes how her sister margot receives a call-up letter from the ss a demand she turn herself in to be taken to a work camp her parents otto and edith had been preparing for something like this and made plans to hide out in a secret annex in a building where otto owned a business early in the morning of july 6th the franks left their home forever

2:19 wearing several layers of clothing and carrying as much as they could without arousing suspicion anne was heartbroken to leave murchi and her close friends behind at the secret annex anne meets the von peels in her diary she gives them the pseudonym the vandans the family friends with whom they'll share the annex hermann august their son peter and his cat maoshi they're later joined by fritz pfeffer a dentist who becomes anne's roommate and of course we meet the people who are protecting them meep geese johannes clayman victor coogler and beth voskagel meep is particularly important in the history of anne's diary after anne and the other residents of the annex were betrayed to the germans it was meep who collected all of anne's writings and hid them for her and when otto frank the only survivor of the family returned to amsterdam and received word that both anne and margo were confirmed dead meep handed the

3:04 diaries to him saying here is your daughter anne's legacy to you according to the anne frank house after reading the diary otto decided that ann's words were an important human document though he omitted some of the parts he felt were too personal particularly passages where anne was critical of her mother he published the first dutch edition in 1947 and wrote about her desire to have her work shared after the war and her father honored her legacy it's since been translated into over 70 languages turned into a critically acclaimed play an award-winning film and informed generations of the horrific consequences of anti-semitism the diaries enduring appeal is also in no small part due to the quality of ann's writing putting on full display her experiences that are at once horrifying and familiar while the constant terror of living and hiding and the shadow of the nazi pogrom hangs over the whole diary there are many moments

3:50 where ann just tells us about her normal teenage experiences throughout it all fighting with her mother envying her older sister and falling in love with her annex mate peter another reason the work is so powerful is anne's choice to format the diary as a series of letters to an invented confidant named kitty whom she often addresses using the you pronoun this gives the reader the feeling that she's writing directly to them and by the end of reading the diary you do really start to feel like you're the one on intimate terms with her and also ruminates deeply on her own identity and beliefs about humanity while she's well aware of the atrocities committed against the jews she maintains a growing sense of hope as the allies land in normandy and start to push their way into nazi territory in a famous entry written on july 15 1944 she said she still believes people to essentially be good at heart and in her final entry

4:38 anne laments that she has to keep hiding the person she wants to be by playing the part of happy-go-lucky anne she longs for a time that she can finally allow her true self to come to the surface but she feels trapped by the expectations of the others in the annex however anne's chance to become her true self was cut short when the nazis arrested her on august 4th 1944 she was separated from her parents and sent with margot to the bergen-belsen concentration camp in germany there she was briefly reunited with her friend honally one last time but lamented that she believed her family was all dead and she was alone in the world then she died in february or march of 1945 during a typhus epidemic at the camp of the five members of the little dipper -2 ping-pong club only honally and jacques survived in fact they're still alive at the time this script was written and by

5:24 contrast died at the age of 15 but if not for the nazis she could have been 93 today which is a reminder that this is not ancient history we're still living in the shadow of the holocaust to this day anne's diary can be at times hilarious and profound petty and forgiving hopeful and full of despair and though the knowledge of her impending fate hangs over the entire book anne's personality and dreams shine brightly through her words there were six million jewish people just like anne with their own personalities dreams and lives murdered in the genocide by the nazis but by reading anne's diary for ourselves and learning of her experiences through her eyes we the readers can feel a fraction of the enormity of the holocaust in a way that only a first-hand account can deliver also yom hashoah israel's holocaust remembrance day is coming up at the end

6:11 of april which means now is the perfect time to honor anne frank the residence of the secret annex and every person murdered in the holocaust by reading or rereading her diary may their memory be for a blessing once again thanks so much to hellofresh for sponsoring today's literary discussion but what's hella fresh you ask why it's a tasty meal kit delivery service that can keep your belly super happy while also saving you a bunch of time by eliminating tedious trips to the grocery store and stressful meal planning you get all of the ingredients you need to prepare delicious meals delivered right to your door and you're eating in a half hour or less now with 50 different meal options available each week i'm always excited to try out new flavors however the second i saw their pork buggy bowls back on the menu i snatched those up right quick because

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