Introduction

To my dear Kitty
The Jewish Secret Hideout
The eighth refugee
In the midst of fear and despair
Hideout Life Schedule
first love
A past that is gone forever
My dreams, hopes, and writing
Why do we fight wars?
The landing operation finally begins!

Unwritten story
Recommendation · Moon Jeong-hee
Translator's Note · Hong Kyung-ho
Anne Frank Chronology

Anne's True Diary: Growing Up in Violence and Hatred

Anne Frank kept a diary in the form of letters from June 12, 1942, to August 1, 1944.
Otto Frank, the sole survivor of his family, edited and deleted many parts of his daughter Anne's diaries in the process of compiling them into a book.
He deleted any explicit depictions of sex, the shelter residents, or the negative aspects of his mother.
In the edited version, the accusatory nature of racism and war is more evident than Anne's feelings or thoughts.
Because of this, after its publication, it was attacked by some political groups and its authenticity was questioned.

The complete version of "Anne's Diary" contains the contradictory emotions Anne felt as she went through puberty, her rebelliousness toward adults, and her honest sexual desires.
While he is curious about the female body and ponders about its structure and changes, he also writes without reservation about his growing dislike for his mother, which may lead him to slap her one day, and even extreme content such as wishing that both his sister and mother would die.
During her two years in hiding, Anne continued to revise her diary and added new thoughts to her previous entries.
As Anne looks back with shame at the crude criticism and resentment she had poured out toward the adults in hiding, we see her growth as she writes her diary.

Despite the terrifying situation of bombings occurring every other day and neighbors and friends being taken to concentration camps, Anne never lost her wit.
It vividly portrays the reactions of adults preparing for the German army's flood operation, and even likens the condition of spoiled potatoes to a disease.
The humorous dramatization of the conversations between the people in the hideout brought life to the repetitive daily life and bleak reality.

Writing for 'My Own Life'

Traces of intense reflection on life as a woman can be seen in every corner of the diary.
Even though she was forbidden from looking out the window and had difficulty receiving a proper education, Anne consistently read and studied, setting goals for her life.
In her restricted life, the only adults Anne looked up to were her mother, Mrs. Pan Dan, and the employees of Opekta Trading Company, but Anne did not dream of a life like them.
Like many women, I wanted to continue doing something I enjoyed and was good at, rather than just being a housewife and someone's wife or mother.
My dream of becoming a journalist and writer was the driving force that kept me studying, drawing strength from the stifling and scary hiding place.

I have no intention of giving up writing.
It is unimaginable for me to spend my entire life doing nothing but housework like my mother and Mrs. Pandan, and like many other women, being forgotten.
I really want to get something.
Besides my husband and children, I'm talking about something I wouldn't regret giving my whole body to.
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Anne grew up accepting the changes and confusion she experienced during the war in her own way.
I learned more from books than from adults who always nag me.
He criticized the society that discriminates against women and does not accept the given environment, and argued that this structure and way of thinking must be changed.
Under pressure from many people, she hoped that her engaged best friend would give up on marriage for her true happiness.
For Anne, writing was not only a hobby, but also a process of self-formation.

In 1983, the Anne Frank Foundation published the first unedited edition, comparing the a-text and b-text.
The Diary of Anne Frank was finally completed in 1998 with the release of five additional pages of the missing diary.
Through the newly discovered diaries, we are able to fully encounter Anne Frank as a person, beyond the flat image of her as a girl who hid in an attic to escape the war.

When the hiding place was discovered, Otto Frank reportedly told the SS who arrested him that the two years he had spent in hiding had been happy, and pointed to the doorposts that marked Anne's growth as proof.
Anne's diary must have been something like that to her.
Even in the midst of endless horror, Anne never despaired and lived on.
There was a happiness in it that we cannot even imagine today.

Please refer to the German, English, Japanese, and French translations.
A complete translation that most closely matches Anne's original text

The Diary of a Young Girl was first published in the Netherlands on June 25, 1947, and was translated into German and French in 1950. It has since been translated into over 75 languages.
This book uses the complete German translation of 『Anne Frank Tagebuch』 as its central text, but for a more accurate and faithful translation, we also diligently consulted English, Japanese, and French translations, as well as academic materials published by the Anne Frank Foundation, with the help of experts, in an effort to prevent misreadings and mistranslations that could occur during the translation process.

Additionally, in order to preserve the sense of sentence structure that reflects Anne's development in expressive style and her talent, we avoided excessive paraphrasing and faithfully translated the original text.
I tried to accurately write the place names and personal names that appear in the diary according to the original pronunciation of the country to which the name belongs and the foreign language notation rules of the National Institute of the Korean Language.
For example, Peter van Daan and Peter Schip, who appear in the diary, are both spelled 'peter', but the former follows the German spelling and the latter follows the Dutch spelling.
In particular, we paid special attention to correcting Dutch place names and personal names that were misspelled in English, Japanese, and German in the previously published Korean versions of Anne Frank's Diary.

Recent research has moved the November 7, 1942 diary entry to October 30, 1943.
It was also revealed that Anne had pasted two pages of a-text into her diary entry for September 28, 1942.
To respect the author's intentions, this edition does not include any hidden pages.