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(The Anne Frank House has a number of great pieces on the history of the Diary including its survival and editing.) This new complete version has triggered controversy a few times.

Contrary to this challenger’s assertions, the real changes to the Diary were done by Anne’s father and first publisher who removed some material for a variety of reasons. Later in the challenge they demand the “the additions of recent fraud should be removed.” They insist that the book be replaced with “the original text only!!!” This outrage was triggered by the publication of the unedited Diary. The challenger asserts that the Diary has been altered to suggest that Anne engaged in homosexual experiences, or at least thoughts. In the past decade or so, the Diary has returned to controversy and in this post I will discuss a 2016 public library challenge that illustrates this new genre of complaints.

In perhaps the oddest challenge, in 1983, four members of Alabama State Textbook Committee sought to remove the Diary because it was a “real downer” (according to Robert Doyle’s compilation). have tended to focus on the sexual content of Anne’s writing. These nutcases are easily dismissed but challenges in the U.S. Much of this is from Holocaust deniers and other anti-Semites who argue that the Diary was fabricated. It may surprise some to learn that the Diary is a source of controversy. American schools use it to introduce students to the horrors of the Holocaust through the story of a girl who is roughly their own age. Assigned in classrooms across the country, few books are as well-known as the Diary. Today is a challenge to The Diary of Anne Frank. In an effort to be more consistent in my writing, I’ve decided to start doing a regular post highlighting particular instances of book challenges and censorship.