. . . 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 read the story Anne Frank young diarist, and it deeply moved me. i love the book, and i am going to read annn franks diary! this story rocks, and those people who said bad stuff about it , the are just plain dumbies.
ummm wat 2 say i feel sorri for any1 tht had 2 go throu tht i do not c the point hitler gained nothin out of only his own death. i own bith the book nd the dvd i ave got 2 admit i never cry at films but i cried my eyes out at this. not 2 mention there still is concentration camps goin on in the world. i do not no bout you’s but i feel priviladged nd well no1 shud go thruo tht pain.
awwwe i felt so sad because as i was reading the story ..i felt like i was getting to know Ann but then she got killed along with over 1000 000 other jews.:(
100 000*
poor anne and her family. Her father is lucky. NAZIS STINK!!!!
i am just reading her diary it is very sad and i feel so sorry for her and her family and feel sorry for every1 who went thro all that stuff but it is a great book
oh i hate the holocaust stories…there too sad!
i’m reading her diary story right now.
its so sad..yet so interesting…yet somehow…quite inappropriate…but i’ll deal.
RIP Anne & Margot Frank:(
anne frank i’m really sorry 4 u … but the same time i’m happy because u published u’re book!!!
gran libro increible diario tambien!!!
were learning about the holocaust at our school and it is davestating to hear how many people have died because of one person
hey guys
i have to do a 10 page report page report and this whole topic is sa sad
hey ya’ll h ow u been ?
I’ve seen many good things and bad things that happen on some of your books… I feel unhappy about these horrible deaths and bad news…I hope your true friend Hannah Goslar is well as well as you are. I’ve only read these books about you: The Memories of Anne Frank as well as The Diaries of a Young Girl-Anne Frank. I hope you are well up in the sky(heaven) where you release your stress and don’t worry about these problems in the earth. Sometimes I say to myself, “Why must Anne Frank go through these terrible disasters and heart-breaking emotins?” I was here on 2/10/07… You are my hero Anne Frank
Anne Frank i feel very bad about how you, and your mother died.
omg i can talk to anne frank… so wats up anne frank
omg omg you are like my role modle but im a boy soo u ar my hero. bye anne i love you
hi anne frank you were very funny and i think you were the best duaghter your dad could have had and i idolize you so much that i played your part in the play we did in our class for at least half the book.R.I.P
hi again i love you anne frank ummm i read the play book of you and hiding in the secret annex i love your personality and how you were very energetic amd funny ok so bye
Does anyone know where that grave is, Holland or Germany I presume?
RIP Margot and Anne, and Edith Frank.
Sara –
The picture shows a memorial at the former Bergen-Belsen site in Germany. It’s not an actual gravesite, though. People who died in the camp were buried in mass graves.
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anne sorry u couln’t though your but we learn about in history its amazing how u made it untill u got cought!
hey anne frank i just wanted to say dat u r funny in the book and that u have a great personality i wish u had survived u just had a few weeks left or some days left