The Diary of a Young Girl (Still about Anne Frank)

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1945 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved by Anne's father, Otto Frank, the only known survivor of the family. The diary has now been published in more than 60 different languages
First published under the title Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 June 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (The Annex: diary notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947, it received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Valentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952. Its popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they subsequently adapted for the screen for the 1959 movie version. The book is in several lists of the top books of the twentieth century.


Anne Frank's story has become symbolic of the scale of Nazi atrocities during the war, a stark exemplar of Jewish suffering under Adolf Hitler, and a dire warning of the consequences of persecution. However, there have been many claims that Anne Frank’s diary was fabricated.
Holocaust deniers such as Robert Faurisson have claimed that the diary is a forgery, though critical and forensic studies of the text and the original manuscript have supported its authenticity.
Otto Frank had stated that prior to the book's publication he cut many passages from the original manuscript that he thought would be of little interest to the general reader and that he had assigned pseudonyms to protect the identities of those Anne Frank had mentioned by name. Some, such as David Irving, have suggested this was evidence that the published version was not an accurate transcription of the manuscripts, and even that the work had been written wholly or partly by Otto Frank or one of his associates. In his will, Otto Frank bequeathed his daughter's original manuscripts to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. After Otto Frank's death in 1980, the Institute commissioned a forensic study of the manuscripts. The material composition of the original notebooks as well as the ink and handwriting found within them and the loose version were extensively examined. In 1986, the results were published; the handwriting was found to be consistent with known examples of Anne Frank's handwriting and the paper, ink and glue found in the diaries and loose papers were consistent with materials available in Amsterdam during the period in which the diary was written.
The survey of her manuscripts compared an unabridged transcription of Anne Frank's original notebooks with the entries she expanded and clarified on loose paper in a rewritten form and the final edit as it was prepared for the U.S. publication. The investigation revealed that all of the entries in the published version were accurate transcriptions of manuscript entries in Anne Frank's handwriting, and that they represented approximately a third of the material collected for the initial publication. The magnitude of edits to the text is comparable to other historical diaries such as those of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy in that they all revised their diaries after the initial draft, and the material was again posthumously edited into a publishable manuscript by their respective families.

                                      ~ The First Edition at 1947
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl