. . . 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 . . .
i feel so sorry
I wish she could have lived longer and survived the Holocaust because, she was a very bright girl and she would’ve been able to tell more about how she and her family was in hiding. It’s very sad right now I’ am 13 and just thinking about someone the same age as me and going into hiding and then going to a labor camp and experience the horror, it’s just terrible not for just Anne Frank but for all the kids. Sometimes i don’t understand why people do so horrible stuff to people. don’t we all wonder what it would be like if we had peace in the world. If there was violence. If we could just live forever and be happy.
I just finished watching the movie i am in many ways bothered,i have much emotion that feels suffocated by the outcome that led to her untimely young death,hatred is an ugly demon that lurkes still today God rest the tortured souls of the jews that died
ive read the book,and so the movie,it makes me want to cry out its very terrible of what the germans would do,even though im a decent german!
Deutschland in der Vergangenheit war sehr akzeptabel und sehr hart zu den Juden
Juden fühlen sich frei
After going to Amsterdam to visit the home of Anne and her family. I felt saddened but amazed just walking through the house and thinking what they endured. The pictures on the wall of her bedroom just make you wonder. one thing that made me giggle quietly tho was the toilet lol a goldish color if i do remember rightly. It is definitely a place I would like to return to as I cant seem to get enough of wondering round the house, (as I am very noisy). I think it was an experience that everyone should hold.
I really love The Diary of Anne Frank. I read it all the time at school and all the time at home too. If it wasn’t for Miep Gies, Annelies Marie Frank and her childhood would have never been remembered unless you built a time machine and went back in time to WW2 and discovered her. I think we should all remember her thinking about Anne Frank. Sadly Miep Gies died on the 11th of January which wasn’t that long ago. She died 5 days before my 10th birthday. Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother) has the same birthday as me (16th January). Isn’t that cool, having your favourite WW2 person and her mother having the same birthday as me. Maybe I could have a joint party with her! Sadly she isn’t alive either. None of the innocent Franks, Hollanders of Gies’s are alive, but we still remember them in our heart! Well done Anne, Margot, Edith and Otto for living a very hard life! I wish you were all still alive…
I also wish that I was sisters or even BFFL’s with Anne. Never mind, everyone has to go one day…
diz iz a really sad story everybody sud read Annes diary its areally gud book but its really sad i almost creid @da end
i love this book!!! but its sad how she died i feel the same ways as her and she is like me
but let me say this to you anne in a better place i love you with all my heart and i will always take care of you R.I.P ANNE FRANK I HOPE I SEE YOU WHEN I DIED BYE 🙁 🙁 🙁 (CRYING)
i love the diary of anne frank and think that the war was terrible how they captured jews for no reason and i am truly sad for all jews and soldiers who died in the wars mainly 2nd w w
R.I.P ann frank
i have they book and im reading it its really sad which makes it hard to read but it is a very good book
I have done a project on Anne Frank. I was shocked a young girl and her family got treated just because of their religion.
A girl at 14 went into hiding with her family because they were being called for concentration camp. Anne’s family was betrayed.
Anne Frank, her mother and sister died a couple of weeks before the Amercians set the Jews free.
On Anne’s 13th birthday , her father Otto got her a diary which Anne used to write in everyday she was in hiding. Otto Frank survived the war and publishes the diary. Otto published his daughter’s diary. I think he is proud of it because it’s showing young ones what troubles his daughter and Jews went through.
I have done a project on Anne Frank. I was shocked of how a young girl and her family got treated because of their religion.
On Anne’s 13th birthday her father Otto got her a diary which she used to write in everyday, when she was in hiding. She was a 14 years old girl when her family went into hiding because they were being ordered to go to a concentration camp.
Anne’s family were betrayed. She died along her mother and sister just 2 weeks before the war ended. Her father survived and published the diary.
Nossa , eu li o livro , é mt emocionante , e a História é linda ;/
You was very wonderful Anne!
it is so sad about anne frank she did not desever that jews should not be persacuting
we will miss you
Beautiful, young and hopeful Anne Frank was but one of millions of beautiful, young and hopeful lives snuffed out by human atrocity. The lesson to be taken from this is that if human nature is possible of this kind of cruelty it is always possible and must be guarded against and never again be allowed to happen. That the goodness in Anne must triumph over the evil of those that murdered her. This is Anne’s legacy, to point out the duality in human nature and the fight for goodness to prevail must be ever present.
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