. . . everything can be taken from a man except one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
On this date — September 2 — in 1944, Anne Frank was among 1,019 people on the 68th and last train from Holland to Auschwitz. Anne and others hiding with her had been betrayed and captured a month before and held in the Westerbork detention center.
The Frank family had gone into hiding two years earlier, in July 1942, after Anne’s sister, Margot, received a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labor camp.
Anne was at Auschwitz for two months, then at Bergen-Belsen, where she and Margot died four months later of typhus, just a few weeks before the camp was liberated.
Anne’s father, Otto, was liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army on January 27, 1945. His wife, Edith, had died the previous day.
Otto Frank was taken first to Odessa and then to France before being allowed to return to Amsterdam. He did not learn the whereabouts of his daughters until October 24, when he received a letter informing him they had died at Bergen-Belsen.
This unfortunately was not an unusual family trajectory for European Jews in the 1940s. Anne Frank is remembered from among millions of others because she maintained a blog — I mean diary — so that her experiences, what she did, the thoughts she had, and everything she suffered was not lost.
I suppose the same holds true for everyone, with or without a diary — nothing is lost, nothing can be undone . . . and it may be possible for a life that appears to be quite pointless at the time to attain a meaning, a purpose, even through suffering, failure and death . . .
Last thing…
Eventhough Anne was still 13, her minds and feelings combine into a deep and wise words. I really like her expression on her diary. She’s a smart girl.
anne frank! WOW she was a brave child! It`s amazing all the things she lived… and this Thursday is her birthday… 79! 🙁 ANNE YOU ARE MY HERO!
Happy Birthday, Anne Frank
Manasse from Indonesia
Happy Birthday Anne Frank
Manasse from Indonesia
Hi Everybody –
Today — June 12 — is Anne Frank’s birthday. If she were still alive, like Angelica said, she would be 79 years old.
On her 13th birthday in 1942, she received a diary, in which she chronicled her life from that date until August 1, 1944.
I always enjoy reading the comments here from people in different countries and different languages. I used to think Anne Frank was just a historical footnote. I’ve been amazed to learn how many people have been touched by her life.
Happy Birthday, Anne Frank.
This sounds like a very good story in all the ways I read it in my 6 th grade class this year and just want to know more about it
i love ann frank…
during the 1930s,the nazis,a german political party in power,began to terrorize the jewish population.otto frank,a jewish buisnessman,took his family to amsterdam in the netherlands to escape persecution.but in 1941,germans invaded netherlands and the frank family was endangered.
i loved the story of anne franke it was very movin to me rip anne and margo frank
I do not believe in reincarnation but i do believe that people see things that have happened to others in the past mostly based on what you have learned over the years about the people that you see. Take me for example, i see things in the future, though it is just a couple seconds, mearly that, but we see things on what we have learned. To me Anne Frank is my idol and saturday i am flying to Amsterdam and i will be seeing her secret annex. i too have read her diary and it just ticked me off when people changed her diary to make the movie more juicy. i expressed these feelings through my 8th grade literature teacher this school year, yes i am a freshman now but whatever. Anne’s story has changed my outlook on life and how she made me a better person. Anne will be a part of history forever and no one should be allowed to change something so beautiful and rich to out literature of youth today.
Anne Frank wrote a diary, not a blog. I get your cleverness, but I think we should respect her genre. Thank you.
Anne managed to fulfill her destiny to become a famous writer and to keep on living even after death. If Miep wouldn’t have found the diary, there would have been no Anne. So I think both Miep Gies and Otto Frank deserve credit for their contribution in helping young Anne fulfill her destiny.
I would also like to add that Fritz Pfeffer (Dussel) and that Auguste van Pels (Mrs. van Daan) got me pretty angry too lol.
P.S. Anne finally has her “Petel” (Peter van Pels).
hey i love anne frank…..u r so awesome…thats right i went there!
I’m verry like Anne and he’s family story. I highly regret for Anne. She’s werry alike me… ;/ Were’s she tomb?
I have an awesome coincidence. In my family tree, I apparently have a Great Grandma named Edith who also had a daughter named Anne who coincidentally died at a young age.
I would also like to add that they were German too.
Unfortunately Anne (my Nanna) was born on September 8th 1923 lol. I don’t know when she died because Nanna Barbera keeps the family tree somewhere safe. So, yeah. lol.
I bet that none of you guys know that according to Anne’s best friend Jacquline (as of 1942) Anne was quite possessive.
I wish I could fly to Amsterdam and perhaps visit 263 Prinsengracht, but I can’t due to unforseen circumstances…. such as I don’t have the money. lol.
I would have to admit that going into hiding would be fun if those Nazi SS dudes wouldn’t skrew it all up.
Anybody here ever heard of The Diary of Margot Frank?
Didn’t think so because it was lost.
The only person other than Margot who had a chance to read it was Anne. How cool would it be if Margot’s diary was found?
dude i totaly agree with you jerry that would be fricken awesome for there to be book about margot!!
I had to write a book report on her diary. No offence to Anne, but that book was the worst week’s worth of reading of my life. BOOOOORING! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I am right now reading this book and i think that the way Anne acts is very come because as this war is going on she is not screaming for her life and is not panicing that i would. she is simply talking about her family and about her day. IT is so cool how she does that.
It seems Peter is quite opinionated. No offence.