ABSTRACT
The continued popularity of The Diary of Anne Frank can be attributed, at least in part, to the successful way in which it identifies the murder of 6 mil lion Jewish civilians in World War II to the experiences of one fairly inter esting but ultimately ordinary young woman who was fated to die along with so many of her people. You can certainly find books about World War II or about the Holocaust that are filled with more facts and figures and names and dates and places and government documents and statistics and speeches and expert sources and so on, but because the focus was on a per son not so very different than you or me, it makes it easier for us to relate to what happened in history.
