Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipovic
Often compared to Anne Frank, this is a young girl's diary of the siege of Sarajevo, mixing school, friends and fear in the same candid, observant teenage voice.
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Books Like The Diary of a Young Girl
If you loved The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Readers come to Anne Frank's diary for its intimate, unfiltered voice: a teenager writing honestly about family friction, first love, boredom and ambition while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. It is both an ordinary coming-of-age story and a document of the Holocaust, and its power comes from that contrast. People who love it often want more firsthand wartime testimony, more young voices, the story of those who helped, and deeper history of the period.
More wartime diaries
Rywka's diary
Rywka Lipszyc
A Jewish teenager's diary from the Łódź ghetto, full of faith, doubt and longing, offering another young writer's inner life under Nazi persecution.
An Interrupted Life
Etty Hillesum
The diaries and letters of a young Dutch Jewish woman in occupied Amsterdam, written in the same city and years as Anne's, but from a reflective adult perspective.
The people who helped
Anne Frank Remembered
Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
Miep Gies, who brought food and supplies to the Secret Annex, tells her side of the story, adding the outside world that Anne's diary could only glimpse.
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
A Dutch family hides Jews from the Nazis in their home, showing the courage and risk of rescuers like those who protected Anne's family.
The last seven months of Anne Frank
Willy Lindwer
Interviews with women who knew Anne after the Annex, gently filling in the history beyond the diary for readers who want the full picture.
Survivor testimony
Night
Elie Wiesel
A short, devastating memoir by a teenage boy deported from his home, giving the firsthand Holocaust testimony Anne's diary readers often seek next.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl
A psychiatrist's account of the camps and how people found purpose there, echoing Anne's search for hope and meaning in confinement.
The Choice
Edith Eva Eger, Esmé Schwall Weigand
A survivor who was a teenage girl when deported reflects on trauma and healing, a moving recent memoir with a warm, personal voice.
Fiction inspired by her era
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
A girl in Nazi Germany finds refuge in words and hides a Jewish man in her basement, capturing the same love of writing amid danger.
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
A Danish girl helps her Jewish friend escape the Nazis; an accessible novel about friendship and rescue for readers moved by Anne's story.
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
Jeremy Dronfield
True story of a Viennese father and son told with novelistic pace, offering another family's experience of loyalty and survival under the Nazis.
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