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The Diary of a Young Girl Author：Anne Frank Series Editors：Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter Published and distributed by Pearson Education Limited Word Level：Intermediate（1700words） Classification：Contemporary British English Number of pages：57 It was during the time of the Second World War in Holland in 1942. The Germans had invaded the country. All the Jews were frightened for their lives. Their freedom disappeared; they must be indoors by eight o'clock at night, they cannot visit the theatre or the cinema and they had to wear the yellow star on their cloth. There were shooting and bombs dropping everywhere. The houses shook like grass in the wind and people caught awful illness. People have to wait in lines for vegetables and all kinds of other things or buy them in the black market because the prizes were too high to afford. Families were broken and many people were sent to the concentration camp and died. The Frank family decided to hide in a secret flat in Mr. Frank's office building. Soon another Jewish family, Mr. and Mrs. van Dann and their son Peter, joined the Franks. Their youngest daughter, Anne, wrote a diary of their lives in hiding. It started in1942 when Anne received a diary as her birthday present from her parents and ended before Anne was took away by the police to the concentration camp and died there in early1945. The diary included what they ate, their surroundings, sounds of shooting and people yelling, airplanes dropping bombs near them and robbers or thieves breaking into houses and stole everything that's valuable. It also included Anne and Peter's love, arguments, danger, hunger and fear. Despite this, they still hope for the best until the final day when the police arrive. It is a story about the awful suffering of the Jews and also a story about love and hope for the future. I've read this history in senior school's history book and I've watched the movie called ''Schindler's List''. It is a movie about a man, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.. I was really shocked when I saw what the Jews had been through and the brutal means the Germans took. I cannot imagine why people had to kill each other just to fit their own stupid ideas like ethnic cleansing. Reading this book makes me know more of their suffering and makes me appreciate of what I have：freedom. I really enjoy reading it and I find myself more efficient this time. 49777071 【JeT】 朱育瑩Julia