The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

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August 18th, 2017

Good Morning Blog Readers, Followers, Diary Writers & Visitors ~  We are back here to share the famous Diary of Anne Frank.  There are some interesting details about Anne's Diary that you may not know.  If you have happened to have read The Diary of Anne Frank, then your comments and thoughts would be appreciated.  You may share your thoughts about what you thought about the Diary in the "Comments Section" here on the Blog at the bottom of this Blog Session.

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Who Was Anne Frank?

Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who went into hiding during the Holocaust.  Anne's Journaling of her experiences in her Diary turned into a famous literary work entitled, "The Diary of Anne Frank".

Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929.  She was a world-famous German-born Diarist and a World War II Holocaust victim.  Anne's work, "The Diary of Anne Frank", has gone on to be read by millions.  Fleeing nazi persecution of Jews, Anne's family moved to Amsterdam and later went into hiding for two years.  During this time, Anne wrote about her experiences and wishes.  She was age 15 when the family was found and sent to concentration camps, where she died.  Date of death March 1945.

Anne Frank Quotes:

"It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.  I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too.  I feel the suffering of millions.  And yet when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."  ~ Anne Frank

Inner look at the Diary of Anne Frank

More about ~ The Diary of Anne Frank

The Secret Annex:  Diary Letters from June 14, 1942 to August 1, 1944 included a selection of passages from Anne Frank's Diary published on June 25, 1947 by Anne Frank's father, Otto.  "If she had been here, Anne would have been so proud," he said.  For all its passages of despair, Anne's Diary is essentially a story of faith, hope and love in the face of hate.

On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank's parents gave her a red checkered Diary (pictured above) for her 13th birthday.  She wrote her first entry, addressed to an imaginary friend named Kitty, that same day:  "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support."

During the two years Anne Frank spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her Diary to pass the time.  Some betrayed the depth of despair into which she occasionally sunk during day after day of confinement.  "I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die,"  she wrote on February 3, 1944.  "The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway."  However, the act of writing allowed Frank to maintain her sanity and her spirits.  "When I write, I can shake off all my cares", she wrote on April 5, 1944.

"The Diary of a Young Girl", as it is typically called in English, has since been published in 67 languages.  Countless editions, as well as screen and stage adaptations, of the work have been created around the world.  The Diary of a Young Girl remains one of the most moving and widely read firsthand accounts of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust.

ENDURANCE

Anne Frank's Diary endures, not only because of the remarkable events she described, but also due to her extraordinary gifts as a Storyteller and her indefatigable spirit through even the most horrific of circumstances.

In addition to her Diary, Anne filled a notebook with quotes from her favorite Authors, original stories and the beginnings of a Novel about her time in the Secret Annex.  Her writings reveal a teenage girl with creativity, wisdom, depth of emotion and rhetorical power far beyond her years.

About Anne Frank's death . . .

Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, both came down with typhus in the early Spring of 1945 and died within a day of each other.  The girls were being held at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where food was scarce, sanitation was awful, and disease ran rampant.

Both sisters died sometime in March 1945, only a few weeks before British soldiers liberated the concentration camp where they were both interned.

We will come back here to the Blog to share more about the Diary of Anne Frank because there is a lot more to talk about when it comes to Diary Writing, and in particular, Anne Frank's Diary.  See you next Blog Session!

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By René Allen

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