revered diary of Anne Frank, a posthumously famous teenage girl that hid from the Nazis in Holland in the 1940s begins. It is still the most famous personal diary in the world — translated into over 70 languages and read in nearly 60 countries worldwide — but why do we still read her? We read Anne Frank because it gives us hope, it helps us see the humanity in one of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and it makes us want to keep history from repeating itself. We read Anne Frank because