Anne Frank’s diary needs no introduction . This beautifully written memoir of a young girl caught in the middle of one of the most horrific periods of human history , is a testament to the indestructible human will to persevere and survive in the face of the most adverse of circumstances . Where Anne Frank herself become one of the victims of the Second World War , her words , crowding every available inch of space in her diary , survived to keep her story and her memory alive for the rest of the world through the ages .