The Blog of Anne Frank

 

. . . 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.

— Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

— Anne Frank

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.

Gravestone for Margot and Anne Frank at Bergen-Belsen site

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 . . .

  470 comments for “The Blog of Anne Frank

  1. Nicole
    22 Mar 2007 at 3:53 pm

    wht do u miss her……….u never met her!!!!!!!!!! u are insulting her she deserves to be respected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. karirenize
    26 Mar 2007 at 7:29 am

    ANNE FRANk U WERE A VERY BRAVE PERSON ANd I REALLY ADMIRE tHAt Al0T !!!!

  3. Noor Mostafa
    31 Mar 2007 at 1:17 pm

    i am so sorry anne and margot frank i wish i can help you!

  4. SARAAA
    4 Apr 2007 at 3:03 pm

    this is really sad…there were 1.5 million innocent children killed in the holocost..anne was just the voice who spoke for all of them..so sad..they never got to even live thier feuture

  5. ank
    6 Apr 2007 at 3:57 am

    anne u are immortal

  6. 10 Apr 2007 at 1:05 pm

    well i just want 2 say dat the story is realy nice and how can sum1 say dat da stiry sucks…….i wish they new how she felt well i dont noe dat person,but whhoever it was they are really retared……people r really wierd thez dayz infact thez 2 boyz are…………

  7. sexy
    11 Apr 2007 at 6:38 am

    hey on what month, day, and year did u die on?

  8. 13 Apr 2007 at 4:25 pm

    ANNE FRANK IS SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO THE CHILDREN IT TEACHES THEM ABOUT THE NAZIS HER LIFE AN DHOW SLAVERY WAS GOING ON.=)

  9. 15 Apr 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Anne frank’s story is touching,and warms peoples hearts. everyone should admire her, and respect her… yeah, im talking to you rad and raul, or whatever.

  10. Breanna
    16 Apr 2007 at 6:46 pm

    I dont think anybody is a reincarnation of Anne Frank. She is living life after death in the Lord’s hands. I think that people who bash her and other Jews are a disgrace. You souldnt judged people because in the end, thats all they are. People. Like you and me. So yea. Give some respect. dont go on her site just to bash her. Obviously you need to get a life and dont patronize someone else’s. Now I DARE you to challenge me because alot of people will back me up.

  11. Steve Adams
    17 Apr 2007 at 12:17 pm

    hey whats up me nothin much just stopped by to say that i realy like this book anad when i watch the movie it about made cry. if you have not saw the movie you should really try to find it and watch

  12. Annonomous
    18 Apr 2007 at 4:13 pm

    Hello fello annonomous’s lol annonomous 1 from canada..that seems interesting you see those things…well i’ll email u to discuss these matters about you seeing these things!
    -A boy from America..Age:14

  13. meredith
    18 Apr 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Annes story is really sad but also just because she talked about the future of being a good mother and going back to school! well anne frank wasnt even trying to be a role model it just happend!

  14. hi im olivia
    20 Apr 2007 at 5:40 am

    hi!!
    my name is olivia. and I want to say that anne frank is very inspiring to me.its soooooo sad that she passed away so young. if the guy who turned her and her family waited one more day, then they would not have went to camp. deeennng. im sooo sad everytime I read her book.
    R.I.P.
    alalala

  15. hi im olivia
    20 Apr 2007 at 5:42 am

    me again!!!!
    how r u???
    anne frank rocks!!!
    ………
    bye!!

  16. hi im olivia
    20 Apr 2007 at 5:43 am

    im 13 years young.
    sorry again.
    bye!!!
    have a great day, who ever iz readin’ dis

  17. Anne Frank Fan
    22 Apr 2007 at 5:31 pm

    OMG Alyson Stoner looks SOO much like anne frank!

  18. Iona
    22 Apr 2007 at 6:56 pm

    I agree with Hostile Witness, #5

  19. Iona
    22 Apr 2007 at 6:58 pm

    Hi its me again. you know what sucks? Margot went through the same thing as anne, but you only hear about anne.

  20. Iona
    22 Apr 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Hi, me again…..Alyson Stoner DOES look like anne frank!

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