I didn't start reading the book till I started my journey to Mumbai from London and yeah it helped me kill the long waiting time in both Heathrow and Mumbai airports....
The book starts with Anne's school days in Amsterdam, where she introduces us to her family and her friends.Ann got the diary for her thirteenth birthday and Kitty was the name of the diary.Kitty was her best friend throughout her rest of the journey until she was killed.Oh yeah the important thing Anne is a Jewish girl who had to go into hiding with her family so they are not killed by the Nazis.All of a sudden she had to move from her happy school life to hiding in a house which she called "Annexe".Anne's family and another fmly totalling to 8 individuals had to share this place to risk capture by the Nazi's
Anne pens down in her diary of her day to day life in Annexe her views on the world, her relationship with her mother and other inmates of Annexe.Any reader will feel and suffer with Anne in her moments of heart-thumping terror when noises are heard downstairs, her moments of frustration at the constant murmuring over food, and her moments of hope for the future where she sees a free world.Anne writes about how they survived, terrified they would be discovered, frustrated and fearful at their life in hiding.
Out of the eight in hiding in The Annex only her father survived the concentration camps, all the others died in captivity.Anne's dream was to become a published author, a feat she has now achieved.A must read for all and I cant wait to visit the Annexe where Anne lived during here hiding....GOD willing I can make a visit to Amsterdam
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