A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.
Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive edition. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature.

"Special, strange, and peculiarly potent... Extraordinary." --"Variety" One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began to massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night or of the weeks leading up to it. Then came a friend's disturbing dream, and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: what was he doing during the hours of slaughter? Challenging the collective amnesia of friends and fellow soldiers, Folman painfully, candidly pieces together the war and his place in it. Gradually, the blankness of his mind is filled in by scenes of combat and patrol, misery and carnage, as well as dreams and hallucinations. Soldiers are haunted by inexplicable nightmares and flashbacks--snapping, growling dogs with teeth bared and eyes glowing orange; a recurring image of three young men rising naked out of the sea to drift into the Beirut battlefield. Tanks crush cars and buildings with lethal indifference; snipers pick off men on donkeys, men in cars, men drinking coffee; a soldier waltzes through a storm of bullets; rock songs fill the air, and then yellow flares. The recollections accumulate until Ari Folman arrives at Sabra and Shatila and his investigation reaches its terrible end. The result is a gripping reconstruction, a probing inquiry into the unreliable quality of memory, and, above all, a powerful denunciation of the senselessness of all wars. Profoundly original in form and approach, "Waltz with Bashir" will take its place as one of the great works of wartime testimony.

Ari Folman et David Polonsky,
scénariste et illustrateur de Valse avec Bachir,
ont réalisé cette adaptation en roman graphique
du Journal d’Anne Frank.
Anne Frank est née le 12 juin 1929
à Francfort. Sa famille a émigré
aux Pays-Bas en 1933. À Amsterdam,
elle connaît une enfance heureuse
jusqu’en 1942, malgré la guerre.
Le 6 juillet 1942, les Frank s’installent
clandestinement dans « l’Annexe »
de l’immeuble du 263, Prinsengracht,
où Anne écrit son journal.
Le 4 août 1944, la famille est arrêtée
vraisemblablement sur dénonciation.
Déportée à Auschwitz, puis à Bergen-Belsen,
Anne meurt du typhus en février ou mars 1945,
peu après sa soeur Margot.