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. Aarti Kumari
    26 May 2007 at 11:19 pm

    Hi guys,
    I found tat most of u just pity Anne….well although she is no more with us she do still live in our thoughts very much n d best way to express ur love to her is by being cheerful ( n brave ) to others as she was….well her death also gives u d msg dat everyone doesnt have a rosy endind

  2. yazmin diaz
    27 May 2007 at 6:25 pm

    so yeah it is intresting too bad im not in canada i live in los angeles weird that she appers were she hidded from the stuped naziz

  3. yazmin diaz
    27 May 2007 at 6:26 pm

    fuck bob the book is the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!its #1

  4. yazmin diaz
    27 May 2007 at 6:28 pm

    hi peoples peace out anne frank #1

  5. Mary
    30 May 2007 at 8:38 am

    nossa.. a Anne é realmente uma heroí­na!!!!!!!!!!!

    daria tudo para visitar o Anexo Secreto algum dia na Holanda…

    é realmente uma história interessantíssima! um suspense!

  6. driellen
    30 May 2007 at 3:59 pm

    oi….
    nao só o livro dela mas com tbm o fime a historia sao comoventes e emocionantes a quem le.fiquei surpreendida com a história veridica de uma garotinha que era simplesmente encantadora que foi mt corajosa em seus atos…
    me entristeço ao lembrar q essa menina morreu de um jeito tao cruel,mas nao perco as esperanças de que um dia encontrarei com ela no céu e esclarecerei todas as minha dúvidas sobre oq aconteceu…
    coragem,justa e acima de tudo realista e sonhadora….
    são essas as qualidades mais irradiantes q Anne teve….
    espero q todos os pensamentos de bondade e justiça nao foram em vao..
    em pensar q a história dela foi apenas uma entre 20000 de crianças né?
    mas fazer oq..fica somente na lembrança…
    Anne simplesmente te adoro e te admiro muito…
    me espelho em vc e na sua coragem incomparável…

  7. jada
    31 May 2007 at 11:09 am

    i feel so sorry for what happened to anne frank and her family but at lest she get to rest in peace with her family!!!!

  8. Mari
    2 Jun 2007 at 4:44 pm

    Ive heard lots of the book an for what I heard its the best out people that are posting dumb things up are very ignorant grow up an learn she is some body to be remembered …Besides my kids an mom she is my heroe

  9. historygirl
    6 Jun 2007 at 8:23 am

    hey ppl my grandma knew anne frank. she was in Auschwitz when anne came into the camp. they stayed in the same bunk area. my grandma said when Margot died and anne found out the life seemed 2 drain out of her. my grandma said she died a few days later. unfortunately it was only six weeks before the war ended. my grandma says that i am alot like anne. i love to read and right, i love nature, and i always look on the bright side of things because even in the darkest places there is light.

    i dont care if u dont believe me i just wanted to tell fellow anne and margot mourners/fans.

    peace out!!

  10. historygirl
    6 Jun 2007 at 8:25 am

    i forgot 2 mention they both were moved togther!

  11. Elianna
    8 Jun 2007 at 6:19 am

    All of you people who said dat dis story sucks, u guys are wrong!! what if u people were Anne Frank?!!

  12. Elianna
    8 Jun 2007 at 6:25 am

    I feel Bad for anne frank, she was so young……..

  13. DIANA SHEFTALL PURO
    16 Jun 2007 at 11:19 am

    EVER SINCE I SAW THE “ORIGIONAL” MOVIE OF {ANNE FRANK) I NEVER THOUGH PEOPLE HAD THE CAPACITY TO BE SO COLD HARTED AND BRUTIAL. BUT I WAS VERY YOUNG AND INNOSENT, I THINK I WAS TEN OR THIRTEEN AT THE TIME AND IT AMMAZES ME THAT ALL THAT ANNE EXPEREANCED SHE CAN STILL HAVE “FAITH IN MAN KIND.” ANYONE OF US WOULD BE BITTER AND ANGRY. ANNE WAS AND IS “TRUELY A CHILD OF GOD” AND THIS IS ALL THAT GOD EXPECTS OF US,KEEP THE LOVE AND BOOT THE HATE. dcsp hoboken n.j.

  14. Christine
    19 Jun 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Hi!!!

    we learned about the holocoust in school and we watched anne frank the movie

    i was so sad

    how can ppl do stuff like that????!!!!!

    just amagine, what would happen if anne frank lived threw the holocoust

    don’t you think her diary wouldn’t have been published

    or maybe since she wanted it to be published before she got tooken she still would have published it

    well, the world will never know

    all i have to say anne frank is a great role moddel for young girls

    PS those ppl that say that you act like her and stuff well, i bet you don’t no one can act like anne she is a person that no one can copy just buy acting like her

    also be happy that that stuff is all behinde us now what do you think would have happend if the Americans and the Russians didn’t come and save the day?

    ?????????????????????

  15. Christine
    19 Jun 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Hi!

    me again

    did you know that some ppl don’t think the holocoust really happended!!!

    that is why others who know it really did happen are trying to educate those who don’t believe it really happened!!

    that is so cool

    PS Anne, you are so awsome i can’t believe how you went threw all that you did

    and Otto Frank, thanks for publishing Anne’s diary if it wasn’t for you, no one would have known about anne

    PSS what about all the other kids that were in the holocoust, they should get a bit of respect too

  16. Elise
    19 Jun 2007 at 6:20 pm

    I believe that it is possible to recall past lives. I have very vivid recollections of being a prisioner and finally escaping on a bus. These visions are very clear. As a young girl, the Diary of Anne Frank was my favorite book that I have ever read. I lived in the Netherlands for 3.5 years. My father-in-law was a neighbor of Anne in Amsterdam. I took a train to Germany and I couldn’t leave fast enough. But, I would never claim to be Anne’s reincarnate… but perhaps someone out there is? The world is full of mystery.

  17. katherine
    22 Jun 2007 at 10:08 pm

    Anne Margot otto edith(annes mom)and everones else who lived in the annex god bless you all and forever hold ur peace. you guys inspier me and i want to be as brave as u guys r . anne and margot and everyone suffered so much……and u know what……. we should be glad that we are still alive!

    r.i.p
    i love you anne margot……. and everyone else who was in the holocost.

  18. katherine
    22 Jun 2007 at 10:12 pm

    its me again…… i forgot anyone who talkes crap about anne sucks!!!!! and i bet alot of people will have my back on dis website!!!!!!!!!!if ur writ say……….right katherine!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. polina
    25 Jun 2007 at 10:48 pm

    ya what katherine said i think that is like so totaly think its messed up 4 people to talk bed about anyone in general that you dont know that have suffered sooo much and ya. so all i wanted to say is you go katherine !!!!!!!!!!!

  20. Sandra
    26 Jun 2007 at 5:53 pm

    I first read the Diary Of Anne Frank years ago – when in school – and I have since reread it and many other books on the subject. Anne was a very couragious young woman at a time when the world was at war (not much has changed since, no? War is hell for all concerned!) and compared to many her age these days – she was very, very articulate. Much can be learned from her.

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