1947: Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Author/Editor: Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Mirjam Pressler, & Susan Massotty
One of the best known children’s diaries, this work records the last two years of a 13 year old Jewish girl whose family hid in an Amsterdam apartment during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This first-hand account is an important work in the literature of the Holocaust and serves as a testament to the human spirit.