Gramercy Book Club to Discuss Anne Frank's Diary in February!

In a special Gramercy Book Club program, the selected book for discussion will be in partnership with a Capital University initiative commemorating the legacy of Anne Frank. The book discussion will be moderated by Meghan Crawford, Capital University Institutional Memory Librarian, and Daria Arincheva, a Capital University professor who teaches a course on Anne Frank and Women’s Voices. Arincheva’s grandfather published the first Russian version of this book.

A ticket to this program includes a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl.

It is strongly encouraged that registrants read the book prior to the program.

CAPITAL UNIVERSITY is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

Said The New York Times Book Review: “The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”

In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

ANNE FRANK was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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