David Barnouw is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher and former director of communications at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He has written more than fifteen books and dozens of articles on World War II subjects. Jeannette K. Ringold has translated over twenty fiction and non-fiction works by Dutch authors into English. She was born in the Netherlands and now lives in California.

"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich

• Author's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography

David Barnouw is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher and former director of communications at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He has written more than fifteen books and dozens of articles on World War II subjects. Jeannette K. Ringold has translated over twenty fiction and non-fiction works by Dutch authors into English. She was born in the Netherlands and now lives in California.

"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich

• Author's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography