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Ok, thanks. So they are about the persecution of the Jews but end when she is deported? I always thought she continued it in the concentration camp.
It's a diary she began shortly before her family went into hiding in a secret annex in an office building/warehouse owned by her father's business partner. It ends somewhat abruptly. We only know what happened because of the testimony of her father, who was sent to a different camp and survived to the end of the war, and that of the people hiding her, who kept the diary safe.
It's pretty much what you'd expect. Anne is a clever teenager with a dramatic streak. She writes about being afraid, but also about being bored, or annoyed with her family or the other people hiding with them. She writes about what she wants to do when the war is over, what kind of person she wants to be when she grows up, and what she misses from before. The tragedy of the diary lies outside its pages.
Which is exactly why it's an important read