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During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. [8] [9] According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. [9]
According to David Eisenbach, a historian at Columbia University, Anne Frank's diary "serves as a symbol of the human spirit that is indomitable even under the most horrific circumstances."
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ, Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (15 January 1892 – 27 November 1945) was one of the people who helped to hide Anne Frank and the other people of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. In the earliest editions of Het Achterhuis, known in English as The Diary of Anne Frank, Voskuijl is referred to as "Mr. Vossen", as he was the father of helper Bep Voskuijl, who is named "Elli Vossen" in the diary.
The end of each entry in Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” gave me a sense of dread. Reading the entire classic book for the first time this year, I saw a teenager struggling for optimism ...
The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the ...
The Diary of Anne Frank was presented in June 1997, in a revision of the Goodrich and Hackett adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. Otto Frank was played by George Hearn, Anne by Natalie Portman, Mrs. Van Daan by Linda Lavin, Mr. Van Daan by Harris Yulin, Peter Van Daan by Jonathan Charles Kaplan, and Edith Frank by Sophie ...
heatheronhertravels, flickr For the first time ever, nearly all of Anne Frank's diary is on display. The notebooks and pages are on display at the house where she wrote her diary while hiding from ...