Find Out Why Anne Frank's Diary Was Considered Controversial. It Isn't What You Think

by N/A, 10 years ago | 1 min read

You may have studied the historic book in school, but these facts will give you more of a glimpse into her life.

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1. The diary Anne received was actually an autograph book.

She got it for her 13th birthday and decided it was better suited as a journal.Â

2. Most of her diary was written in the form of letters.

They were addressed to someone named Kitty. Some people believed she was referring to her friend KÃ¤the "Kitty" Egyedi.

3. Anne and her family were found because someone betrayed them.

German officers raided the building because someone told them where the Frank family was hiding.Â

4. Anne died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

She died of typhus three days before British troops liberated the camp.Â

5. Only one of the eight people who was hiding in the Fran home survived.

Anne's father Otto survived the concentration camp.

6. Her father was given the diary by someone who helped his family hide.

Miep Gies, a Dutch citizen, gave it to him and he submitted it for publication.Â

7. Gies never read the diary.

If she had, it never would have been published. She once said that she would have destroyed it because it incriminated everyone who helped hide the family.

8. It's considered controversial.

It's not because of the violent nature of the war. There is a passage where Anne becomes curious about her anatomy, which critics considered "pornographic."

9. Many schools have tried to ban it.

A school in Alabama once tried to ban it for being "a real downer."

10. Some people believe it to be a forgery.

The original has been analyzed for ink and handwriting and has been confirmed to be real.