I read this for one of my college classes. But, honestly, it felt wrong considering what Israel is currently doing to Palestinians. The correlations are staggering.
With such an old book, I’m not sure if I have anything else of value to say that someone else hasn’t already said. 

“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things“ is one of the beautiful things she wrote with this one being just a month before she was captured, on July 6th 1944. Such intelligence and emotional maturity strikes from this young girl to write with such knowledge on both herself and the world around her. Her essence of normalcy in such hard times really advocate for her personality.

The reasons this weren’t a five star review from me is because I didn’t exactly find myself completely compelled to go onto the next page nor do I think I would have typically picked up a book about a 13 to 15-year-old’s life besides the political and historical context. For the context however, I think this is a vital read to understand just one person’s perspective of eight people in this mass genocide.

I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

This was a highly educational and emotional book about the lives of 8 Jewish people in hiding during WW2. Though there were some parts that dragged on a bit, I cannot at all criticize them seeing as this is the diary of a teenage girl with no socialization outside of the 7 people she lived with. I understand what others say about Anne complaining a lot, but once again she was in a small place with 7 other people for two years, so she’s bound to complain. Overall this was sad and interesting.

I loved it! Such a unique look into someone's, but especially a young struggling girls (or women's like how she felt it) mind. things and time are so different, yet the emotions and experience are so the same. Things almost every girl growing up feel, but never says or even sometimes dares to think of, she wrote down and expressed so purely and real (not knowing others would read it). It gives room to think all the while reading on the state of self, families, groups, Country's and cultures, without being imposing or philosophical. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to other girls/women who feel trapped or stuk what ever situation or place.

I have read this book a few times, but not since I was a teenager and I forgot how raw and emotional and graphic and detailed this is. As I was reading this book I started to feel like I was 14 all over again, like we understood each other. And then there would be another mention of the outside world and I would remember the reality of her situation. 
I finished this at work so I had a hard time holding back my tears as I read the afterword. I try not to think about all the work Anne could have done with the years of her life that were stolen. Instead, it seems imperative to thank Anne's father Otto for having followed his daughters wishes and allowed the publication of her work.
"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

 Um memoir sobre a vida de duas famílias em um anexo secreto. Anne Frank deseja se tornar um jornalista/escritora quando cresce, é por este motivo que começa a escrever em seu diário, recebido no seu aniversário. Ela começa a escrever antes de ir para o esconderijo, no qual fica por volta de 2 anos.

O memoir começa bem interessante nas primeiras páginas, acompanhar a vida dela antes deles irem ao anexo, é de fato prazeroso. Entretanto quando o livro vai chegando na metade possui momentos bem monótonos, e por vezes, entediantes. Houve vezes que quase abandonei a leitura, pois, só eram descritos os dias deles nesse local e nada de mais, a Anne no início do diário é bem imatura e por vezes chata, entretanto, quando chega a parte final do livro, sua mentalidade é tão diferente, e mais madura que nem parece a mesma garota (ela até chega a citar isto um momento).
 
Há entradas no diário dela que são incríveis, é impressionante como uma menina de 14-15 anos conseguiu ter um pensamento tão refinado para os padrões de sua idade, enquanto estava lendo, houve momentos que fiquei constrangido, na idade dela não possui nem dez por cento desta maturidade. Há outro ponto bem importante de ressaltar, ela era bem mais madura para a idade dela, porém a que custo? Ela não ganhou essa maturidade de graça. Fica aí a reflexão. Porém vale lembrar, não gostei do início, porém, poderia ser só eu que não estava no momento de lê-lo, você pode gostar do livro inteiramente, não há problema. Vale lembrar que leitura nunca é unanimidade.