Anne Frank’s diary is a true personal account of a teenage girl confined to a hiding during the Holocaust. It is not justifiable to analyse it as a novel or any other work of fiction. It was not intended to be anything than a personal diary. The diary of Anne Frank demands a thorough understanding of the horrible atrocities that were perpetrated on the Jews by the Nazis in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Anne’s diary covers a period of roughly 26 months. It starts from her thirteenth birthday on June 12, 1942 and ending on August 1, 1944 just after her fifteenth birthday. Being a sensitive girl Anne records every detail concerning her life, her friends and her family. The life in the annex and the reports of the persecution of the Jews in Holland, Germany and other parts of Europe are described in detail. The diary reflects the different stages of her maturity and her mental, emotional and physical development during her adolescence.
Anne matures as an adolescent throughout the course of her diary entries. She writes freely about her personal thoughts, puberty and the period, her love and passions and finally about sex and sexuality. She writes about her love with Peter Shriff and Peter Van Daan. When her mother, elder sister, Mrs. Van Daan, Dussel and other adults disappoint her, she turns to Peter. She can share her feelings and can talk about sex and sexuality with Peter only.
Anne shows a remarkable maturity and clear understanding of the horrible political developments and the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. She hopes that war will end soon and bring a new dawn for them. The diary abruptly ends on August 1, 1944 as they were found and sent to different concentration camps by the Nazis.
