Anne Frank? What do you think of when you hear her name? Do you only think of a tragic story of a young life cut short by the Holocaust? She was so much more than a statistic of World War II. She was a young teenager whose diary changed the world.

Inspiring Through Her Writing
Anne's powerful words of thought, curiosity, emotion, and inspiration changed the way people who have read her book see the world. That's the only thing that Anne kept dear to herself other than her family and her life. Kitty, the name of her diary, was Anne Frank's way of escaping from the world of negativity and death. Kitty was also there as the friend that Anne could never have due to hiding in a cramped attic/annex. A present she got on her thirteenth birthday now became a present for the world to open over and over again. Anne didn't think of her diary being published in 60 different languages. She did, dream of being a writer. Anne is an inspiration to young writers today. She knew the importance or rewriting her work. She even rough drafted her diary a second time. She was writing a new version of her diary all over again. Anne was a young teen who was working her way up the writer's ladder.

The War Through Her Eyes
Wrting her diary, Anne let the world see the tragedies of World War II through her eyes. Instead of just reading it in a textbook, young people get the experience of what the Holocaust was like through a fourteen-year-old's eyes. Like my Language Arts teacher always says, "Show not tell." This is exactly what Anne has done. Someone our own age has shown us what war is really like.

"This apparently inconsequential diary by a child, this 'de profundis' stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence of Nuremberg put together."
—Jan Romein, Dutch historian

Eleanor Roosevelt described Anne's diary as "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read."

"One voice speaks for six million—the voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl."
— Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer

Anne was just another teenager who was already planning her future. Look at that picture. She represents the innocence lost during World War II. Anne Frank has been inspiring many great people in the world around us. She in many ways has not only inspired the young generation when they read her book, but she has given hope to the elderly who have gone through that tragic time period. My great-grandmother lived through World War II. She has been given a chance to know that there is still hope for a better future for me and my brothers and sisters.