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. Ilona
    24 Apr 2007 at 1:17 am

    I dont think that anyone is Anne Frank reincarnated. she was Jewish and to say that she she was reincarnated is totally against her religion, and that is why she died….

  2. Tiffany
    26 Apr 2007 at 6:09 am

    anne frank never realy had a chace to kive her lifw as she wanted to. she would have been a great writer.

  3. MistaH J
    26 Apr 2007 at 7:16 am

    Anne Frank is HOTTTTTTTT
    I LOVE HER

  4. Some Guy
    26 Apr 2007 at 7:19 am

    nazis rule

  5. Me
    26 Apr 2007 at 7:20 am

    Some guy ur retarded or something x_x

  6. Emriss
    26 Apr 2007 at 1:23 pm

    I can’t imagine what it was like to live through that, let alone die because of it. It was incredibly brave of all those Jews to endure the holocaust without going crazy. What kind of people would want to wipe out a race in the name of their God?

  7. Lauren
    26 Apr 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Mein Name ist Aneliese Ermelendis-Margot Offen und der Vater von Otto Frank’s, Vater’s Bruder ist mein großer Urgroßvater. Sie ist mein Held. Nicht nur durch Blut aber ich fühle ich habe eine Verbindung. Weil ich das Erste Mädchen Seit Anne und Margot bin. Ich bin genannt nachdem sie Aneliese der kurz ist für Anne und dann Margot mein zweiter zweiter Vorname, wenn Sie irgendeine Frage E-Mail mich ich haben, spreche 14 Sprachen, damit Chancen sind, ich werde unter Gestell Sie An liebe_ist_ein_schlachtfeld@yahoo.com

    My name is Aneliese Ermelendis-Margot Frank and Otto Frank’s father’s,father’s brother is my great-great grandfather. She is my hero. Not only by blood but I feel I have a bond. Because I am the First girl Since Anne and Margot. I am named after them Aneliese short for Anne and then Margot my second middle name if you have any questions email me I speak 14 languages so chances are I will under stand you at liebe_ist_ein_schlachtfeld@yahoo.com

  8. Lauren and Aneliese are here
    26 Apr 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Mein Name ist Aneliese Ermelendis-Margot Offen und der Vater von Otto Frank’s, Vater’s Bruder ist mein großer Urgroßvater. Sie ist mein Held. Nicht nur durch Blut aber ich fühle ich habe eine Verbindung. Weil ich das Erste Mädchen Seit Anne und Margot bin. Ich bin genannt nachdem sie Aneliese der kurz ist für Anne und dann Margot mein zweiter zweiter Vorname, wenn Sie irgendeine Frage E-Mail mich ich haben, spreche 14 Sprachen, damit Chancen sind, ich werde unter Gestell Sie An liebe_ist_ein_schlachtfeld@yahoo.com

    My name is Aneliese Ermelendis-Margot Frank and Otto Frank’s father’s,father’s brother is my great-great grandfather. She is my hero. Not only by blood but I feel I have a bond. Because I am the First girl Since Anne and Margot. I am named after them Aneliese short for Anne and then Margot my second middle name if you have any questions email me I speak 14 languages so chances are I will under stand you at liebe_ist_ein_schlachtfeld@yahoo.com

  9. bob
    27 Apr 2007 at 7:26 pm

    the tragedies that anne and her family had to go through were incredibly hard from my perspective! i can not imagine what would be like to live it first hand!

  10. bob
    27 Apr 2007 at 7:26 pm

    the tragedies that anne and her family had to go through were incredibly hard from my perspective! i can not imagine what it would be like to live it first hand!

  11. 30 Apr 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Hello,
    My name is Micaela and at my school we just got finished reading and watching the movie and the book. This week we are going to watch and listen to the afterward movie and story when she gets takin to the concentration camps.When we watched the movie it was so good but, it was also very sad too. I just wish that she could’ve stayed alive for a long time so she could finish out her life. I was wondering…. how was it like during the two years of hiding? And, was it hard to be so quiet during the day, and not being able to go outside? How was it like when she had to pack only the things that meant the most to her? And wearing all of her clothes. That must have been very hard and very hot! Well i will come back tomorrow. I have to go to bed. Can somebody answer my questions?? Maybe someone that is a survivor form the Holocaust.

    Love,
    Micaela!

  12. GEORGIA GIRL
    2 May 2007 at 3:15 pm

    Anne wuz an amazing girl , and someguy or wateva retarded name that is you oviously dont no what natiz are or maybe u aqre just another retarded guy

  13. 3 May 2007 at 3:01 pm

    hey olivia do you go to mansfeld middle school

  14. Honey
    5 May 2007 at 8:06 am

    well i think this story was very devistating and may anne and margot live on in da thoughts of others that had family members involved in this tragedy

  15. Sam
    5 May 2007 at 10:56 am

    I believe in reincarnation, because sometimes I feel like if I used to live in a concentration camp, I’m not saying Im a direct reincarnation of Anne or Peter, no, I mean, I feel like I suffered all that…

  16. KlLy
    6 May 2007 at 11:38 am

    hey who wrote “do you go to mansfeld middle school” bcuz i go there & i am in ms. rossetti’s class we are doing a project on anne frank and we r waching da movie about her. what grade are u in and do i now u? it wood b cool 2 have pepole from mansfeld on dis web site w/ me my name is kelly liska do i know u olivia? im in 6th grade. it is reelly sad wat happened 2 her i also tink she was reelly brave and i wish i could meet her but i cant and thats sad bcuz she passed away at such a young age.

  17. 7 May 2007 at 12:15 am

    i feel sad for her=(

  18. kim
    7 May 2007 at 2:08 pm

    hitler totaly sucks. Im on page 143 in her diary right now and am doing a report. it is so so so so sad. 5-7-07

  19. 7 May 2007 at 4:25 pm

    anne frank is my hero and it was so sad that she did not survive. I bet she is still looking down at us today.
    God Bless Anne Frank and Everyone Else

  20. 10 May 2007 at 10:36 am

    very odd 4 a guy it is boring

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