The Diary of Anne Frank (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Dawidowicz, Lucy C, The War against the Jews: 1933-1945,

  Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991.

• This reissue edition provides a thorough history of the origins and development of the Holocaust. Dawidowicz offers a concise overview of Nazism and also delves into the daily lives of the Jews under growing anti-Semitism.

  Gies, Miep, and Alison Leslie Gold, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, Simon & Schuster, 1998.

• Gies recalls what it was like to shelter the Frank family and the other Jews while living under the Nazi regime.

  Lindwer, Willy, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, Anchor, 1992.

• Lindwer’s work covers the final months of Anne’s life from the time she and the others were taken from their attic hiding place to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  Melnick, Ralph, The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary, Yale University Press, 1997.

• Levin, a best-selling author, was instrumental in bringing Anne’s story to the stage. He wrote the first adaptation of the diary, one that was faithful to Anne’s entries, but Otto Frank rejected this version, instead choosing another production team who selected Goodrich and Hackett as the writers. The Stolen Legacy tells this story.

  Muller, Melissa, Anne Frank: The Biography, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber, Owl Books, 1999.

• Muller’s biography of Anne situates her diary within a larger historical framework.