How many versions of Anne’s diary are there?
Anne started to write her first diary on her thirteenth birthday, June 12th 1942. This diary she wrote for herself, and is referred to as version a. After hearing on the radio that the Dutch government in exile were collecting witness accounts of the war, she was inspired to write a diary for publication. She edited and rewrote her first diary, taking out parts she deemed uninteresting and adding in others from memory. This became version b. She also changed the names of others in hiding with her.
