They publish an edition of "Anne Frank's Diary" which includes an unpublished version

A special edition of the "Anne Frank's Diary" which will arrive tomorrow at the German bookstores under the title of "The house of the back" ("Das Hinterhaus – Het Achterhuis") will include for the first time the denomination "version B", that the young He was rewritten in the hope that the text would be published at the end of the war.

Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt and died in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, would have been 90 in 2019.

UNESCO included the diary written by the Jewish girl in the hiding place where she had been hiding with her family in Amsterdam in the "Memory of the World" register.

The so-called "B" version comes about when Ana partially rewrote her diary after listening to the call of a Dutch minister on the radio to document the suffering of the Dutch under the German occupation.

The young woman dreamed of becoming a writer and hoped that the text would be published after the end of the war.

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"Version A" is the journal such as Ana wrote without a draft and, initially, solely for herself.

"It is truly a unique book, and for us it is one of the central works that also carries what we represent or what we want to occupy as an editorial house: education, human rights, the time of national socialism … it is at the center of our editorial identity, "said Alexander Roesler, director of the documentary literature program at Fischer, in Anne Frank's diary.

For Roesler, the text of the young woman, translated into dozens of languages ​​and which, in many countries, is a school reading, has a universal message that goes beyond the era of National Socialism and the experience persecution and exile of the girl. .

"Anne Frank finds language for this particular puberty period in which one develops," said the publishing entrepreneur.

Conflicts with parents, search for one's own voice and all this in the special conditions of the underground.

"This is of course a very strong text, you do not have to keep it artificially, it talks about it to a lot, especially at this age, beyond national socialism," said Roesler. (Télam)