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uwmspeccoll · 11 months

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Milestone Monday

On this day, June 12 in 1942, the German-Dutch Jewish diarist Anne Frank (1929-1945) received a diary for her thirteenth birthday while in hiding with her family during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Frank and her family were famously captured by the Gestapo two years later in 1944 and transported to various concentration camps, where at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Anne and her sister Margot died a few months later, probably of typhus.

The diary, which Anne Frank edited and rewrote portions of for an intended reading public, was retrieved by two women who helped hide the family and given to Frank's father Otto Frank, the family's only survivor, after the war ended and Anne's death was confirmed. The diary's ultimate publication in 1947 made Anne Frank one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and arguably one of the most celebrated diarists in Western history.

The diary was originally published in Amsterdam by Contact Publishing under the Dutch title Het Achterhuis, which is usually translated as The Secret Annex but literally means "the house behind" or "back of the house." We hold the first French edition, published as Journal de Anne Frank in Paris by Calmann-Lévy in 1950, and the first American edition, translated by Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday and published as The Diary of a Young Girl in Garden City, New York, by Doubleday & Company in 1952, with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. In a prelude to her diary, which she dates 12 June 1942, Anne Frank writes:

I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.

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welcometoelliotstable · 8 months

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GUYS GUYS GUYS I GOT THE ROLE!!

IM PLAYING PETER VAN DAAN IN DIARY OF ANNE FRANK!!!!!!

#SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGSSSSS #AHEHS LH SHGDJS #JFISHSJSH #diary of anne frank #actor #Peter van daan

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josiepugblog · 3 months

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Ok I am so freaked out I was just at a bookstore casually eavesdropping on these two young women (Black American, college aged) chatting while they browsed books. Slightly paraphrased:

A: I loved reading in school.

B: yeah me too! I had the best English teacher we had like this book club.

A: it was just so fun. Reading and history were my favorite.

B: of course then I learned the history we were taught wasn’t really what happened. That sucked.

A: Yeahhhh. I remember being like obsessed with the Anne Frank book though.

B: Did that really happen?

A: yeah.

B: ok yeah. That was a good book.

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHST THE FUCKKKK

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING. IM NOT EVEN JEWISH AND A LITERAL CHILL WENT DOWN MY SPINE HOW DO PEOPLE (educated people who read and enjoyed school no less) NOT KNOW THE ANNE FRANK STORY WAS REAL.

I’m sort of hoping this one girl is stupider than she seemed. But I want to blame Tik Tok. Or is it something else??? What the fuck is happening????

#antisemitism #diary of Anne Frank #holocaust denial #whattt the fuck

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yoursannefrank · 2 years

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I couldn’t find this picture directly from my archive, so I’ll post it again.

A rare picture of Anne and Otto Frank from Miep and Jan Gies’s wedding from July 1941 at Prinsengracht 263.

From left to right: Anne Frank, behind her Otto Frank. Next to Anne there is Mrs. Stoppelman (Miep and Jan was living with her until she went into hiding just like the Franks.), at the center two unkown people, then Miep Gies on the right (seated), behind her on the left is Hermann van Pels and on her right is her husband Jan Gies.

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cosmoglass · 8 months

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“The unbosoming of an ugly duckling,” will be the title of all this nonsense. - Anne Frank, Friday 14th April 1944 Notes on 'The Diary of a Young Girl'

Saturday 19th February 1944 The giddy ups and downs of Anne Frank -

Tuesday 7th March 1944 Anne Frank’s advice for those in a state of melancholy -

She’s such a little philosopher, breaking down the flaws in her mum’s advice. Bet she annoyed the pants off the others in the Secret Annex simply by thinking critically and trying to discuss things. That’s why they harassed her with criticisms so much.

Thursday 23rd March 1944 Envious old guys tryna sabotage Anne & Peter, Peter blushing and Anne being shamelessly vain -

Monday 27th March 1944 Every resident of the Secret Annex is crowded around the radio listening to Winston Churchill making a speech. '... I am wearing a nightdress, which is much too small, too narrow and too short.' Anne doesn't say how she feels about this situation. She does say that 'Peter's eyes are popping out of his head' but she attributes this to the strain of listening to the radio.

Tuesday 28th March 1944 I like it much better if he explains something to me than when I have to teach him; I would really adore him to be my superior in almost everything.' DO GIRLS WANT YOU TO MANSPLAIN OR NOT?!

He longs to kiss you too, Anne. It's because he's afraid of rejection, embarrassment and shame.

Tuesday 4th April 1944 "Eva's Dream" is my best fairy-tale, and the queer thing about it is that I don't know where it comes from. Eva's Dream features a rose who is full of herself just like the flower in The Little Prince. The Little Prince had already been published but only six months before this diary entry and in America, not Europe, which means Anne couldn’t have read it.

Tuesday 11th April 1944 "Then they will find Anne's diary," added Daddy. "Burn it then," suggested the most terrified member of the party. This, and when the police rattled the cupboard door, were my worst moments. "Not my diary, if my diary goes, I go with it!" But luckily Daddy didn't answer. .......................... If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason only do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter, we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too. ............................... For the remainder of this epic entry in her diary, Anne takes stock of herself and states some of her dreams for the future after the war is over. An indomitable spirit.

Friday 14th April 1944 "The unbosoming of an ugly duckling," will be the title of all this nonsense.

Sunday morning just before eleven o'clock, 16th April 1944 Poor darling Peter awkwardly fumbling his way towards kissing Anne on the ear. Anne in ecstasy.

Monday 17th April 1944 Dear Kitty, Do you think that Mummy and Daddy would approve of my sitting and kissing a boy on a divan - a boy of seventeen and a half and a girl of just under fifteen? I don't really think they would, but I must rely on myself over this. ............. To exchange our thoughts, that shows confidence, and faith in each other; we would both be sure to profit by it! Yours, Anne.

Wednesday 19th April 1944 It is so soothing and peaceful to feel his arms around me, to know that he is close by and yet to remain silent, it can’t be bad, for this tranquillity is good.

Friday 28th April 1944 First kiss on the lips.

Friday 5th May 1944 Anne shares what she intends to tell Daddy in defence of her right to go upstairs for a snog. Very forthright and long-winded. Poor Daddy. The next day, Pim (Daddy) reads it in a letter that Anne gives him and he's upset for the whole evening. Anne talks about it as if she's being grown up but I think she actually enjoys how much it upsets him, which is very childish. The day after that, Pim tells her how hurt he was by her words and Anne realises how obnoxious she's been and is ashamed of herself.

Wednesday 14th June 1944 Aged just 15, Anne works out the narcissistic defence mechanism that is projection and also understands how being far more self-critical than others has emotional and social consequences for her. She may be over-estimating how much of an inner life Peter has. He's not as brilliant as her and he may just simply not have those profound thoughts and feelings like she has -

Thursday 15th June 1944 It's not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars makes me calm and patient. It's a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; Mother Nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously.

Thursday 6th July 1944 I've so often thought how lovely it would be to have someone's complete confidence, but now, now that I'm that far, I realise how difficult it is to think what the other person is thinking and then to find the right answer.

Saturday 15th July 1944 I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Friday 21st July 1944 With her second last diary entry, Anne is over-excited from optimism about the trajectory of the war and very jokey. So tragic.

Tuesday 1st August 1944 I can't keep that up: if I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if... there weren't any other people living in the world.

EPILOGUE As for the two girls, they had been sent to Bergen-Belsen in Germany two months before their mother's death. There Anne showed the same qualities of courage and endurance which had already made her noteworthy at Auschwitz. In February, 1945, both the sisters caught Typhus. One day Margot, who was lying in the bunk immediately above Anne's, seeking to rise, lost her hold and fell on to the floor. In her weakened state the shock killed her. Her sister's death did to Anne what all her previous sufferings had failed to do: it broke her spirit. A few days later, in early March, she died.

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“I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?” - Anne Frank

Anne, you were wonderful, lovely and amazing, a great writer and a great person, and you always will be.

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onefootin1941 · 8 months

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1959: American actor Shelley Winters cuts vegetables in a still from the film, 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' directed by George Stevens. (Photo by 20th Century Fox/Getty Images)

#shelley winters #happy birthday!#diary of anne frank #1959

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totallyhussein-blog · 11 months

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Anne Franks legacy inspires Manchester book appeal

Have you ever read Anne Franks diary? Thanks to Maurice from West Didsbury, we’ve been back to the Wood Street Mission in Manchester, with copies of Anne Frank’s diary, which Maurice kindly donated to the ’Books Forever Appeal’.

Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. On her thirteenth birthday, just before Anne’s family went into hiding in NAZI occupied Amsterdam, Anne Frank was presented with a diary.

During the two years in hiding, Anne wrote about events in the Secret Annex, but also shared her thoughts and feelings. Writing also helped Anne document her experiences, of being a young Jewish woman in hiding from Hitler’s Third Reich.

Anne Frank had planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex. After World War Two ended, her father Otto Frank fulfilled her wish and since then, Anne Frank’s diary has been translated into more than 70 languages.

Here in Manchester, at the St Johns Garden in the city centre, the Anne Frank tree was planted on June 12th 1998. The tree serves as a lasting memorial to Anne Frank and all children killed in wars and conflicts since WW2.

In 2013, a rose dedicated to Anne Frank was also planted at the Manchester Jewish Museum, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The rose planted had been grafted from one made in the year of Anne’s birth in 1929, and another from the year of her death in 1945.

What also makes this donation from Maurice meaningful, is that the city of Manchester is home to some of the children and grandchildren of those British soldiers, who as liberators of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, bore witness to where Anne Frank lost her life.

Anne Frank wrote in her diary; “where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne also wrote; “how lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world.”

For more information, please visit WoodStreetMission.org.uk or to donate new books for children aged 0-16 years, please send them to Wood Street Mission, 26 Wood Street, Manchester, M3 3EF, The UK.