The collected writings of Anne Frank, the teenager whose diary became a symbol of resilience amid the Holocaust, will be published this month, when the author would have turned 90
By
Tobias Grey
June 17, 2019 10:39 am ET
Ten months before dying in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15, Anne Frank wrote in her soon-to-be-famous diary “I want to go on living even after my death!”
The vivacious journal, written while the Frank family and others were hiding in Amsterdam between 1942 and 1944, has come to symbolize both the extraordinary resilience of a Jewish girl and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Over time, it has revealed the German-born Frank as a complex human being, as much aware of her own flaws as of those around her.
On June 25, “Anne Frank: The Collected Works,” will be published in the U.S., timed to the month when the author would have turned 90. The book includes three versions of the diary as well as several of Anne’s letters to her paternal grandmother never before published in English.
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