Anne Frank: Hope in the Shadows of the Holocaust

Anne Frank was an ordinary teenage girl. She liked movie stars, spending time with her friends, and talking with boys. Her ordinary life disappeared as the Holocaust, one of the most horrifying events in world history, began to take shape. She and her family went into hiding to try to escape the Nazi "Final Solution" that took the lives of over six million Jews. Anne spent two years in a cramped living space, recording her thoughts and feelings in her beloved journal. Spring Hermann relates the life story of this extraordinary young girl, and explores the history-making events that shaped her life. Told through excerpts from the diary that recorded her thoughts both before and during the terrifying years of seclusion, this book reveals the incredible scope of her courage. Book jacket.