A review by craftymoni
Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar

4.0

I remember being very touched by The Diary of Anne Frank when I was a kid. I would have really liked this book as a companion. It includes lots of snapshots of Anne and her family, as well as pictures from her diary. The book includes a biography of her life and what happened to her when she was arrested and sent to Westerbork and then to Auschwitz. One of the reviewers had reservations about the section regarding the Concentration camps and whether or not it is appropriate for kids. I think it is. At least some kids. I read all kinds of books on the Holocaust as a child (after reading Anne Frank) and there were more gruesome pictures in the books I read than the ones in this. I was deeply affected by these pictures and remember the way I felt when I looked at them to this day. But I don't think it was bad that I was exposed to them at a young age. It didn't mess me up psychologically. If anything it made me more compassionate about human suffering.