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One of the most famous and memorable accounts of [[World War II]] and the Holocaust, '''''The Diary of a Young Girl''''' or ''Het Achterhuis'' in the original Dutch, was the title given to the edited version of the Diaries of Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), a Dutch Jewish school girl living in Amsterdam. In 1942, Anne was given a diary notebook for her 13th birthday which is when the diary starts, by that point, [[Nazi Germany|Germany has already invaded]] and occupied the Netherlands for two years. At first, the Franks tried to live out the occupation, but as [[Adolf Hitler]]'s genocidal intentions began to show, Anne's father Otto built a secret shelter in the business building where he worked (by that point, the borders are closed and travel for Jews is so tightly regulated that leaving Amsterdam would have been impossible). On 6 July 1942, Anne's sister Margot received relocations orders to enter a "[[Blatant Lies|work]]" camp, and the Franks, along with van Pels family and another Jewish friend immediately moved into the Secret Annex (as it was called).

 

 

As human nature would dictate, locking eight people in half of a townhouse under such stressful situations meant that each of the occupants immediately proceeded to get on everyone else's nerves. The Diary abound with morbidly funny tales of the occupants arguing over rations, radio channels, people's cooking, and in one memorable story, a low scale campaign over bathroom privileges (note that any small mistake, like a toilet flushing at the wrong time, can get everyone killed).