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. razvan71
    17 Aug 2007 at 4:33 am

    Am vazut filmul “Jurnalul Annei Frank”. Am ramas socat de ororile si tragediile prin care au trecut, secunda cu secunda, acesti copii. Este inimaginabil cum o haita de nazisti imbecili a putut sa savarseasca asemenea acte de cruzime. Este peste puterile unei intelegeri rationale sa poti, fara resentimente, sa executi, sa torturezi si sa ucizi prin gazare copii nevinovati, care nu au puterea si forta de a se apara, care nu doresc decat sa fie lasati sa traiasca langa parintii lor si care au fost asasinati doar pentru ca nu faceau parte din rasa “ariana”.
    Dumnezeu sa o ierte pe Anne Frank si pe toti cei 1.500.000 de suflete nevinovate de copii care nu au mai reusit sa-si duca visele la indeplinire si sa speram ca nu vom mai avea parte de asemenea popoare care sa nasca un nou Hitler.

  2. Holly
    19 Aug 2007 at 5:58 am

    None of you are Anne Frank reincarnated. You only think you are because you’ve read about her and it gets to your head. Reincarnation is more than just having weird dreams or anything like that. Pay some respect for the dead and keep your pointless comments to yourself.

  3. danielle
    20 Aug 2007 at 4:43 am

    Im with holly. Im am so into anne frank i’ve read almost all the books out there.
    all my friends think im crazy they’re like shes already dead get over it. is anybody here that into anne frank?? if so post a blog here.

  4. ruffstuff
    31 Aug 2007 at 2:58 pm

    i have the book “the diary of a young girl”,a 1955 edition,i wanna sell it,if somebody is interested to buy the book, plz contact me:taoussi_khalid@yahoo.fr

  5. beachblonde641
    28 Sep 2007 at 9:51 am

    anne frank is a awsome book it is a very sad book evry 1 should read it because it tells what people had to go through and how lucky we are that we dont have to go through it

  6. 1 Oct 2007 at 2:10 am

    hey!!!
    lamento muxo lo k te paso pero tu fuiste mui valiente pero la valentia no te duro muxo lo sentimos te keremos

  7. Corina Holguin
    26 Oct 2007 at 4:59 pm

    i admire anne frank i think she was a bright,brave,and had a lot of imagnitation. i still wish she would could have made cause it was just a fews weeks more until the americans and thought maybe,just maybe ….. i wish so badly none of this would have happend . espeacally since she was so young she had a long way to go. well that all i have to say .

    by:corina

  8. 31 Oct 2007 at 10:15 am

    That is sad that she had to die they should never put her there

  9. michelle
    5 Nov 2007 at 6:49 pm

    My brother was in a high school play as the dentist Mr. Dussel. I went to the play all 4 nights and i was inspired by the play so i read the whole book and it was GREAT!!!! i wish i could see the play like 100 more times cuz i am really depressed that it is over and i just went last night and through the weekend.

  10. lyann
    4 Dec 2007 at 3:38 pm

    she is sooo brave. just being seprated from my family would be enough for me to give up.i wish hitler wouldnt have killed himself we could have showed him what he put others through ,that retarded hipacritical skank

  11. lexie
    8 Dec 2007 at 11:15 am

    Wow thats so sad that she died but yea it oki i guess

  12. -babyl0ve ^_^
    20 Dec 2007 at 9:54 am

    MY CLASS JUST REAd THiS ST0Ry.
    WE REALLy ENJ0YEd iT.

  13. 5 Jan 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Anne Frank is amazing! I never herad about a teen that did so mcuh and touched so many lives!!!

  14. 5 Jan 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Anne Frank is amazing! I never herad about a teen that did so mcuh and touched so many lives!!!
    I read so many Anne Frank books, like all the books ever writen about her. She is my hero

  15. 5 Jan 2008 at 8:22 pm

    I am really sorry Anne Frank I wish I lived in past and save Anne and her family farewall R.I.P Anne and her big sister!!!!!

  16. Adrianna
    10 Jan 2008 at 3:49 pm

    I am reading Anne Franks Diary and it is a really good book,, And for those of you that think your “recarnaited” Anne stop trippen thats soo dumbb Uhh people like you……but w/e
    Anyways Very sad movie/book

  17. 13 Jan 2008 at 11:14 am

    annonomous- if u were born in the 1940’s, you could be her reancarnation. FREAKY!!!!

  18. anna
    19 Jan 2008 at 5:09 am

    i think anne frank scould not of been killed including her family ive read all this and wot people have said if u do not beleive ur a asucker well r.i.p anne frank r.i.p anne frank family xooxoxxo
    lots of love anna

  19. lisa
    21 Jan 2008 at 10:26 am

    wow this stor need a bit more information it doesn’t even tell the exact date that anne died that is important for the project im doing and i was assuming that it might accually sat that since it does relate to the tomb stone picture that let me to this site

  20. lisa
    21 Jan 2008 at 10:30 am

    hey this is the same lisa that commmented before and i just wanted to let oyu know that this is a very well written document and it provied important informtaion that helped me with me project!! thanks…. good work!

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