FRANK, Anne.

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Het Achterhuis. First edition of "the best-known personal document associated with the Holocaust and one of the most widely read books of modern times" (Graver, p. 222). Edited by Anne's father, with an introduction by the historian Annie Romein-Verschoor, it was published under her chosen title, Het Achterhuis (Dutch for "back house", that is, the rear extension of the building)."Anne's diary is both a fine piece of literature and the testament of a vivacious, lively, and insightful adolescent during very troubled times... [It] put a human face to the unfathomable statistics of the millions of individuals who suffered and died" (Cargas, pp. 52-3). It has since been translated into more than 70 languages and was included in the New York Public Library's landmark "Books of the Century" exhibition of 1996.

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