The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, published in English in 2018, has found itself at the center of a growing number of controversies involving book removals from school libraries.

Anne Frank’s diary depicts the Holocaust, which should make readers “uncomfortable”. Anne Frank’s diary was written by a 13-year-old girl who at times writes about her own body.

A photograph of Otto Frank with his daughters Anne (center) and Margot is displayed alongside the yellow stars Dutch Jews were forced to wear, at an exhibit in New York on February 14, 2007.

Foto: Anne Frank Foundation / AP 16 / 17. Anne Frank's great-grandparents Elkan Juda Cahn and his wife Betty, who lived in Frankfurt's Hochstrasse.