. . . 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 . . .
oh, i also wanted to say that im a very big fan of yours 🙂
whoever says anne frank stinks or nazis rock is retarded
anne frank is AWESOME
im reading her diary
its really good
oh and anybody who says they are anne’s reincarnation is a liar
i agree with i rock
reincarnations are not real
nazis stink
anne frank rocks
i feel bad 4 anne and margot
if only they could have lived a little longer
miep is 100 years old now!
it was in the newspaper
i hate nazis
they suck
i am 48 yr. old and i am going to make a movie of anne frank in the secret annex. she wasn’t the most important person in the world but she had a diary. that made her special because she told her life in the secret annex. it will come out on july28, 2010. please it will be a world-wide movie! enjoy!!!! 🙂
hi, i have just returned home after visiting anne franks house. I have wanted to go for the past 15 years and my god it was worth it. I had my 3 yr old with me which made the trip extremely difficult, as i kept comparing my family unit now and how it would have been all those years ago. I look at these idiots now in gangs and think … huh you would not survive in that situation so bloody give up on your stupidity of trying to look hard in front of your mates.
anyway changing the subject whilst i was there i bought the book ‘the last seven months of anne frank.’ it is told by seven women who spent time with her in belsen and it is brilliant. well it is hard reading as in sad. anyway RIP to the frank family and i hope you are all back together now.
IM 14 and im hellla fine.. but this isnt about me its about our beloved sister ANNE FRANK….well im doing a report on this and feel really bad beacsue i know that she had a really tough time and i felt really bad for the fathher to beacase he never got to see his daughters get married… and for that i hate hitler!!! well i look up to her and i dedicate my report to her
ANNE FRANK R.I.P.
well i totally agree with medicatedmoog, those guys will not go far, i find them so immature,and selfish, and just to make the matters worse they really think they´re cool! they don´t know what effort and kindness is, if they only learned that from anne frank they wouldn´t be so miserable.
I am working on this story in my 8th grade class.
I think it is very interesting and i have learned alot.
I learned that Anne Frank was a miserable person in her short life.
But so far what we are working on it has to be a good book.
Any questions email me at gutttaaabiiitch@yahoo.com
Thanks (:
im watching the movie on her in english right now its gotten really sad and suspenseful.
R.I.P the Frank family
una nina fuerte,con una coraza increible contar paso a paso su odisea compartida con otros nos demuestra la fortaleza.Creo que hubiese sido una gran escritora,y lo demostro.bien por su padre que publico su obra.
i read anne frank dariy at lesat 1,000 times becacuse iam miep’s granddather and i love it i also still live in geramey also for the movie they ask my grandma to paly miep but she said NO! she was still very sad that she was DEAD.
really!
How would you like it if your diary was beind read by others
hey everyone! i am reading The Diary of Anne Frank- The Play in English class. We have to make a poster about her. If any of you have interesting or useful information about her, her family, or anyone in the Holocaust, please tell me! it is due on May 15! thanks! if you have any helpful information, please e-mail me at zebrasinstripes@gmail.com . my AIM screen name is fieldhockychck95. tell me there if u want!
im sorry!
Did you know that Anne Frank’s real name is Anelies Marie Frank
dom zeg.
ze is begraven in een massa frank
Anne, I think you are so0o0o0o0o0 awesome! You really should not have been caught! You would have become very famous in Hollywood. I am also creeped out bc her last journal entry is on my birthday :/ You are a very remarkable person and people will never forget your story!
adoroa
E uma história bué triste ='(
a Anne frank e os seus familiares manteram o segredo em ficarem fechados num sitio apertado .
Foram muito corajosos .
achoo que fariria o mesmo nãao só por mim mas tbm pela a minha família