A version of an iconic autobiography detailing a young Jewish girl's two-year experience hiding from Nazis in a cramped "Secret Annex" has been pulled from the shelves of Culpeper County Public Schools.
"The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition," a vivid memoir of Anne Frank's private thoughts during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, will no longer be assigned to CCPS students, according to Jim Allen, director of instruction for the school system.
This book is usually given to eighth-grade middle school English students to read.
Citing a parent's concern over the sexual nature of the vagina passage in the definitive edition, Allen said school officials immediately chose to pull this version and use an alternative copy.
"What we have asked is that this particular edition will not be taught," Allen said from his office Wednesday morning. "I don't want to make a big deal out of this. So we listened to the parent and we pulled it."
Apparently, Anne's father, Otto Frank, the sole survivor of the "Secret Annex," felt the need to censor his daughter's most intimate thoughts as well, eliminating about 30 percent of the original diary published in 1947.
He omitted parts where Anne criticized her mother and other Jews living in the confined quarters as well as some sexually suggestive references.
However, during the 50th anniversary of her death in a concentration camp, the Anne Frank Foundation published the unedited definitive version in 1995.
Sometimes dubbed controversial, this book has been translated into more than 50 languages an English version in 1952, and transformed into a play and several movie versions.
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Teaching the imaginings of an imaginary person is something that should be investigated as fraud
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