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After two years of collective disinterest in Anne Frank's story, I'm looking for something new - and hopefully, engaging. I've been looking, for teaching purposes, for some fresh titles in the historical genre that I will just describe, rather baldly and awkwardly, as 'war stories.' Although Diary of a Young Girl enthralled me when I was thirteen years old, it has not been enjoyed by my students.

For people that went through the Holocaust, it's impossible to get it out of mind. but I guess I'm really lucky because it only affects me for an hour or so and then I can forget about it and move on to other things. Every time I read it I just felt depressed for an hour afterwards. Overall, REALLY sad but very well-written and realistic. It's also incredible that any of these people were able to move on with their lives after what happened to them, and even have families and normal jobs. I didn't think that was humanly possible. It's hard to believe that people even survived at all - for example, the author once went seven days without eating or drinking anything. It was extremely well-written and I couldn't put it down, but at the same time I kept thinking to myself, 'Ahhh stop reading!' because it was just so sad. When I started the book, I didn't even know it was about the Holocaust (I have an old version that just says 'Ellie' on the cover and there are no pictures) so I had no idea what I was in for. It was even more graphic and disturbing than Night. This is definitely the saddest holocaust book I've ever read.

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