Question

why is Annie's diary regarded as a valuable account of those times

Answer 1

We can learn many things from The Diary of Anne Frank. This book is about survival. It's about prejudice. It teaches how there is nobility in human compassion. And it's also about a young girl trying to survive adolescence. Many teens can relate to such a book because Anne goes through all of the normal adolescent trials in life, even though she's locked up. Anne has a difficult relationship with her mother, as most young girls do. She often says things to hurt her mother, yet she can't help her temper and continues to do so as time goes on. She also goes through the beginning stages of love. She and Peter enjoy each others company, and that leads to a very close bond that many teens experience in their lives. Anne also struggles with her identity. She finds through her writing that there are two Annes: a good one and a bad one. She longs throughout the story to find someone who will relate to her. All of these feelings she has can relate to most teenagers, no matter what year it is. It is a universal book. Although it teaches of the Holocaust and what the Jews went through, it reaches out to the reader to make the story more realistic and believable. We never want such a historical blunder to happen again.

Answer 2

Anne's diary is important because it is a piece of history from someone who lived that history. Anne was an eye witness to the Holocaust, and she experienced it first hand. She was an innocent who had her innocence taken away. She saw the fear, the injustice, the anger, the loss of faith, the selfishness all up front and personal. We can read the accounts of historians, but those accounts will never have the personal bond we have with Anne.