Views of Anne Frank

One of our best fiction writers, Francine Prose, examines The Diary of Anne Frank as a literary work in Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. Cynthia Ozick pulled no punches when she wrote in a New Yorker article in 1997 that early editions of the diary had been “bowdlerized, distorted, transmuted, reduced; it has been infantilised, Americanized, sentimentalized, falsified.” (In a heavy dose of irony, American immigration authorities had refused to grant the Frank family an entry visa during the war.) Before it was finally picked up by Doubleday in 1952, a reader at Alfred A. Knopf found it “very dull,” calling it a “dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions.”
As Joshua Hammer wrote in The New York Times,

Prose rebuts the charge that Frank’s diary was a “found object” — the inconsequential scribblings of an adolescent whose death elevated it far beyond its value as a work of literature. In fact, Frank intended her writings to reach as wide an audience as possible, inspired by a radio address given by a Dutch minister of education in exile who was determined, once the war was over, to establish an archive of accounts of life under the Nazis. In the spring of 1944, Frank, then 15, rewrote and amended earlier entries, making scenes more vivid, deepening characters, shifting seamlessly, as Prose puts it, “from meditation to action, from narration and reflection to dialogue and dramatized scene.” .... She makes a persuasive argument for Anne Frank’s literary genius.

The room Anne shared with Fritz Pfeffer (her pictures of movie stars and royalty festoon the wall). Fritz (an adult) came to the annex alone, with no family but with a non-Jewish girlfriend to whom he risked sending letters. Anne called him a "tattletale" and "dimwitted" while he deemed her "Ill-behaved."

This 3-D, interactive exhibit at the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam takes you through the moveable decoy bookcase to a tour of all the rooms of the "secret annex" in which Miep Gies protected Anne, her family, and their friends—eight people in total—for two years. In this video, Anne's descriptions take you through the hiding place.
I must confess to not having read the diary (yet). Comments from those who have would be welcome!