Summary

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The book starts with Anne being 13 and she starts out by discussing her family in her diary, she started keeping a diary to express herself and she called her diary Kitty. In writing to her diary Anne wrote about the Jews and how they began to suffer because of the Germans in 1940 with the anti-jewish decrees and jews had to wear a yellow star to show that they were Jews. When Annes father discussed going into hiding to keep from being takin by the Germans they go sooner than planned to the secret annexe which if Annes father's place of employment. They go into hiding with another family the Van Daan's which at times is overwhelming for everyone because they can't go anywhere and for most of the day they have to be quite so they are not heard. By October they began to hear more about the concentration camps and how the Jews were being taken by the dozens to suffer a horrible fate, Anne and her family are thankful to be alive and hiding from a such a fate.