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Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
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English
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"The Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and her feelings in her diary for the next two years. Cut off from the outside world, she and her family faced hunger, boredom, claustrophobia at living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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"People who don't have secrets imagine them as dark and hidden. It's just the opposite. Secrets are bright. They light you up. Like the bare lightbulb left on in a cell day and night, they give you no rest."
So thinks Joop, the narrator of this brief and bitter tale, whose secret is like no other. He has kept that secret for more than sixty years, but now his brother--whom he has not seen since the end of the war--has suddenly shown up at his door.
Having...
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English
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"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com.
In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt....
10) Margot
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
1959. Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind. Margie is really Margot Frank, older sister of Anne, who did not die in Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who instead escaped the Nazis for America. But now, as her sister becomes a global icon, Margie's...
15) Anne Frank
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Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Profiles the young Jewish teenager who hid with her family for two years in a secret attic before being captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp.
16) Anne Frank
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Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Graphic novels aren't just for superheroes! Anne Frank has been plucked from history books and her life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels. The subject's birth, childhood, education, and holocaust experience have been skillfully told with detailed art. Further reading lists, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles useful in classroom discussion.
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Anne Frank hoped that one day she would be a published author. She couldn't have known that the diary she kept while in hiding from the Nazis would become one of the most widely-read accounts of World War II. With her sharp observations, wit, and optimism, teenage Anne described her narrow world in the secret Annex, where her family and four other Jewish refugees hid for two years. Her diary wouldn't shy away from the hardships the experienced. Anne...
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Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived during World War II, when people like her were killed just for being Jewish. Anne and her family were forced to hide in a tiny, secret space to try and survive, and Anne began keeping a diary to practice her love of writing and pass the time. In her writing, she described what life was like as a Jewish person during the war. She also wrote about her hopes, dreams, and the future she wanted when she could...
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