On the Second History of Anne Frank 1 • Deborah P Britzman • Resume: Le Journal d'Anne Franlc est l'une des oeuvres de la Shoah les plus enseignees dans le milieu scolaire. Toutefois, l'histoire de la reception de ce journal depuis sa publication en anglais est largement ignoree. Dans cet article, Deborah Britzman etudie la presentation du Journal en milieu scolaire de maniere a comprendre non seulement comment les jeunes leteurs perr;oivent l' experience douloureuse d'Anne Frank mais aussi comment l'espoir que la diariste tend a insuffler a ses lecteurs se transforme chez ceux-ci en une esperance de la voir eclwpper a son des tin. Summary: Tize Dimy of An ne Franlc is one of the most-taught Holocaust texts in the school curriculum. And yet, the history of its reception since its English publica- tion is largely ignored in the teaching of the Dimy. This article considers the argu- ments surrounding the packaging of An ne Frank's Dimy in order to understand not just how the difficult knowledge Anne Frank conveyed is encountered but also the ways in which An ne Frank's hope for her readers transforms into the readers' hopes for An ne Frank to be rescued. T n the last year of enh·ies to her Diary, a fifteen-year-old Alme Frank re- - sponded to a London radio broadcast calling for diaries that documented for fuhu·e generations the experiences of war. "Of comse," writes Alme Frank on March 29,1944, everyone pmmced on my diary. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret A1mex .... Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate, and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. Although I tell you a great deal about om lives, you stilllmow very little about us. (243-244) Al1ne Frank names the pedagogical mystery that is her Diary: as a place of secrets, how can we be told a great deal and still know very little? As for its pedagogical pmposes, this mystery becomes crystallized in two of its hatmt- 120 Canadian Children's Literature I Litterature canadiemze pour la jemzesse •