Ana Frank's Diary

As this period  we are reading “Fatelessness”, we are exploring the historical context of this novel; the Second World War. This global war, is distinguished by  the genocide of the Jewish population, and their suffering at the concentration camps. People were tortured and kill with now reason, and some of them, wrote their experiences at their own diaries. This is the case of Ana Frank’s Diary.

This diary, can be compared to Imre Kertesz’s novel “Fatelessness”, because is also a written  document of the experiences the author suffered from the German invasion.

 Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. It gain fame because of its accuracy and well-written record of their time in hiding. She wrote it while She was hided in a little apartment in Frankfurt am main, with her parents and sister. They staid there until de German police, specifically the Gestapo found their hiding in August 1944.

 

When Second World War ended, the diary was found and published by a familiar of her family, being now days recognized as one of the more important books of the war.