The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
A Dutch family hides Jewish neighbours in their home, showing the courage and risk of the helpers who made lives like Anne's in hiding possible.
6 books to read next
Books Like Anne Frank
If you loved Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Readers come to Anne Frank's diary for an intimate, honest voice: a teenage girl writing about family friction, first love, boredom, ambition and fear while hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam annex. What stays with people is how ordinary and funny her observations are alongside the constant danger, and how clearly she wanted to become a writer. Many readers then look for other first-hand wartime accounts, books about the Holocaust and hiding, and stories told through a young person's eyes.
The world of the annex
Survivor testimony
Night
Elie Wiesel
A short, devastating memoir of a teenage boy's experience in the camps, continuing the young witness perspective that makes Anne's diary so affecting.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl
Frankl reflects on how people find purpose amid unimaginable suffering, echoing Anne's own determination to hold onto hope and inner life.
The Choice
Edith Eva Eger, Esmé Schwall Weigand
Deported as a teenager, Eger recounts her survival and long healing, a moving account for readers who wondered what a young woman like Anne might have become.
Fiction through young eyes
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
A young girl in occupied Denmark helps her Jewish friend escape, capturing the friendship, fear and everyday bravery that readers responded to in Anne's diary.
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
A girl in Nazi Germany finds refuge in words and hides a Jewish man in her family's basement, a novel that shares Anne's love of writing and reading.
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