Books: Lost Child

ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (285 pp.)—Doubleday ($3).

Ten years ago this month, a Jewish girl named Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday, and began to keep it with care. The entries were gay-spirited—even though the Franks, refugees from Hitler's Germany, were living in occupied Holland. Anne saw an old Rin-Tin-Tin movie and told her diary about it; her teacher made her write an essay on an "Incurable Chatterbox" because she talked too much, and Anne recorded that too. Then one day, Hitler's Gestapo summoned the Franks for...

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