The Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Anne Frank · first published 1956
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A personal diary kept by a Jewish girl hiding during the Nazi occupation, offering an honest, human view of survival and daily life under persecution. Moving and thought-provoking for general readers.
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Based on the book ANNE FRANK: DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, the diary of the young Jewish girl in hiding from the Nazis is presented in the form of a play. The coauthor is Albert Hackett.
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on “Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?” ↗…life for the better: * A confession and other religious stories by Leo Tolstoy * Happiness by Matthieu Ricard (a counter argument against French philosophers who believe happiness doesn't exist) * The Diary of Anne Frank * A Life Interrupted by Etty Hillesum (the most beautiful book I will ever read)
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗Anne Frank's Diary
on “What history books would you recommend?” ↗…library was promoting it to children. Another book that is promoted to children that includes explicit discussion of sexuality, and that has been challenged by the parents you're talking about, is the Diary of Anne Frank. I don't think "Gender Queer" belongs in school libraries. I do think the Diary of Anne Frank belongs in school libraries. Can you offer an argument that acknowledges that? I'm skeptical.
on “US library defunded after refusing to censor authors” ↗The books I've chosen over the last year seem to unintentionally have had the common theme of survival under miserable situations. Man's search for meaning, Diary of Anne Frank, Alive!, When breath becomes air, and Blueprint for armageddon podcasts I-VI, are some of them. While providing strategies for living the day to day, they also provide valuable perspective and have made…
on “Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?” ↗Both are valuable and present in a well rounded life. The Diary of Anne Frank and Those Who Leave Omelas cause you to question life in different ways.
on “The Cypherpunk Library” ↗…to his personal correspondence to his wife outweighs his privacy (even from the grave). It’s not a new or novel debate, one of the more famous discussions on the topic would be the publication of the diary of Anne Frank. Unlike Feynman she wasn’t a historical figure, until after publication of her diary. If you agree with the publication do you object to the decision to withhold publication of a number of pages and…
on “No Other Love: Letters from Richard Feynman to His Late Wife, Arline” ↗…message is conveyed to children from authority figures. In my view, parents have a legitimate interest in the party line from adults to children being “no teenage exploration of sexuality for anyone.” The diary of Anne Frank has historical value, and the sexual exploration is incidental. In Gender Queer, it’s quite central to the book. I don’t think a library should be defunded over it, but I do think it’s counterproductive…
on “US library defunded after refusing to censor authors” ↗…Bridge to Terabitha is about enjoying life in the face of that threat of its cessation; The Giver says that we should not accept our assigned place in society and that it's possible to be different; The Diary of Anne Frank illustrates the beauty in a single human life and reminds us that everybody is amazing (a lesson that many of us online tend to forget); and I wrote about Catcher in the Rye a few days ago, but it's not…
on “School Books That Set Us Up For A Lifetime Of Depression” ↗…an introduction. Right, that's what they had said, but now they seem to be saying that that's no longer true. To quote the NYT article: "But now the Swiss foundation that holds the copyright to 'The Diary of Anne Frank' is alerting publishers that her father is not only the editor but also legally the co-author of the celebrated book. [...] 'If you follow their arguments, it means that they have lied for years about…
on “Anne Frank’s Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move” ↗…during high school. The most memorable ones for me all fell into the "modern classics" category - To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, The Diary of Anne Frank, and so on.
on “Why Read the Classics? (1986)” ↗What do US schoolteachers assigning The Diary of Anne Frank say about it, these days? When I was in middle school you could say things like "concentration camps are bad" and "hiding persecuted people in your attic is good" without much fear of controversy, and…
on “Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photos of Japanese American Internment Camps (2017)” ↗…cause. We've got literary masterpieces regarding the Holocaust. I can't think of any that have to do with other genocides; if they exist, I haven't heard of them. There's Eli Wiesel's Night, there's the diary of Anne Frank. Authors wrote a slew of kid's books about the subject, so that a lot of us grow up with the Holocaust ingrained in us. Number the Stars; the Devil's Arithmetic. Those are the books used to teach 10-year-olds…
on “China celebrates 60 years” ↗The diary itself will be out of copyright, the book "The Diary of Anne Frank" - an edited version of the diary (by excision and addition of preface only, it seems) - will still be in part copyright protected. Except possibly in some regions - I think France has an ongoing right…
on “Anne Frank’s Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move” ↗The only place I remember seeing it is in The Diary of Anne Frank. I'd guess it's on British tv/radio, too.
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