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Anne's first diary was given to her for her 13th birthday by her father, Otto Frank.
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This was the very first time Anne wrote in her diary.
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Anne's entire diary spanned across four volumes. This was the last entry in her original diary.
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Anne's second diary was lost presumably when the police arrested the family. Luckily Anne had finished rewriting these entries for publication so we still have entries from that time period.
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Anne heard over a radio broadcast that Gerrit Bolkestein, an exile from the Dutch government hoped to read many stories about Jew's experience in hiding. This convinced Anne to rewrite her diary for publication.
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This the first entry in the final diary Anne ever wrote
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This was her last entry in her third diary. She wrote another entry this same day in her fourth diary.
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This was the first entry in Anne's final diary.
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This is the day Anne wrote her final entry to her diary before they were captured.
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After Anne and her family's arrest Miep collected all of Anne's Diary she could. Miep then hid it to give back to Anne if she survived.
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Otto comes back to Amsterdam after he was allowed to return months after his camp was liberated.
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The Dutch historian Jan Romian reviewed Anne's Diary as presented by Otto Frank. This caught the attention of Amsterdam's Contact Publishing with whom Otto signed on with to have Anne's Diary published
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1,500 copies of her diary were published. Her diary was named "Het Achterhuis" meaning The Black Door in English.
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Anne's Diary is translated into English.
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Anne's Diary has now been published internationally. This is a huge step in the process of showing others what happened to Anne and her family. This also had an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Anne's Diary is now being read in many parts of the world and is on Broadway.
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This is the first movie that was made out of Anne's Diary.
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Otto mounts to lawsuits against people who publicaly anounced that the diary was forgery. Once the man recieved a six month prison pension for a pamphlet he handed out in the court room.
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This version of the diary includes things about Anne's sexuality and her relationship with her mother that were not origonally in the published diary.
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Five handwritten pages from Anne's diary were bought from Cor Suijk with whom they were entrusted by Otto by the dutch government. These were in all future publications of the diary.
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This is the most comprehensive edition of Anne's Diary. It has all three versions side by side plus notes and more info on the diary and Anne. The three versions are the first one Anne wrote for herself, the editied version of her origonal that she wanted published, and Otto's version of the diary.
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The diary was made into another movie
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Anne's Diary has now been published in more than 60 languages. There are versions of the diary that include everything that Anne wrote. Also many movies, plays, and books with more about Anne have been made.
