The Diary of a Young Girl

I finished this and cried. This is the hardest thing i've ever read.

This feels all too modern in the year 2020 - 2021. It was easy to connect on several levels and seemed much much more personal. While she aches to go outside and to go to school, I felt this being sheltering in place and think of the school kids who want to go to school again. Easy to understand her longing - the difference is stark - one in hiding from a tyrannical government for their lives and the other the combat a pandemic to try to protect others.

Living through historical events with hardly any good news. Disturbed, power grabbing, and hateful people are allowed to rule and their followers encouraged to commit violence. I had to take a break from the book a bit on Jan 6th when white terrorists attacked the capitol building. One of them wearing a shirt “camp auschwitz” (along with other symbols of hate). I thought of Anne and cried. I for a moment thought she was alive, like a friend who was hidden, all because it was so real and happening.

It has been a journey...

She writes so extraordinarily well, the details, the emotion is true and hers. At some point, you understand that she wrote this for you. She wrote this for everyone to be shared - she would have been a great journalist. When you read this, know that Kitty is her name for you. You are her friend...and as you get closer and closer to the end... you know that that is the end - unfinished and unjust.

Everyone must read this book in full and unedited. Her heart lives on in us ~