What it is: The book often called "The Diary of Anne Frank" was
first published in 1947 in the Netherlands under the title "The
Secret Annex: Diary Letters from June 14, 1942 to August 1,
1944." It was published in the U.S. in 1952 under the title
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl." It has subsequently
been published around the world. How it changed the world: The
diary, containing the personal musings of a girl trying to
negotiate the tumults of adolescence while hiding with her
family in fear for their lives, brought home the horrors of the
Nazi Holocaust in a way no news reports could. "When you hear
the voice of one girl who was in one of those camps, it's able
to touch you in a way more than all of those statistics," says
Judith Jones, a recently retired legendary book editor who,
while working for Doubleday in Paris after World War II,
discovered the diary in a pile of rejects and insisted that
Doubleday publish it in the U.S. "I think that nobody had
grasped" what happened, she says. "I just think