Traumatic Experiences in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl

Abstract

Anne Frank's diary,The Diary of a Young Girlis one of the most celebrated diaries in the modern world. It narrates Anne's severe mental torture in a hideout in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, during the Second World War. Anne, who hardly was thirteen years when the family was forced to a hideout, spent two years hiding in an annex of two rooms and a kitchen with eight members during the mostgruesome days of the War. She penned down, some of her innermost feelings in relation to love, adolescence feelings, way and meaning of life in the hideout in the extraordinary situations of the war. Her portrayal provides a stark glimpse into her extraordinary ordeal gripped from childhood to adolescence. She captives the reader with an innocence that contrasts the reality of her situation, which outwardly looks calm and quiet, but is like a resisting volcano. The suffering of the young girl, Anne is a portrayal of trauma that speaks volume of the trauma of the Jews during the Second World War.