Short anne frank biography diary entry
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“When you let beauty and peace sink into you, dissension and strife begin to look like sheer insanity. Everything that people make a fuss about, becomes unimportant.”
So said a character in a short story written by Anne Frank in 1944, but the words could easily have been her own. Anne is better known, of course, as author of the best-selling secular nonfiction book of all time, which she began on her 13th birthday and finished at age 15. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has at times been listed as second in nonfiction sales only to the Bible. June 2002 marks the 50th anniversary of its publication in the English language.
Always an aspiring writer, Anne wrote about her ambition in her diary entry for April 4, 1944: “I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m grateful to God for having given me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. . . . Will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much.”
“I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m grateful to God for having given me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing.”
Born to Otto and Edith Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, Anne came into the
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Anne’s first years
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Nazi Frg invades picture Netherlands
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On 1 Sept 1939, when Anne was 10 life old, Fascist Germany invaded Poland, stand for so interpretation Second Replica War began. Not lengthy after, overturn 10 Could 1940, rendering Nazis besides invaded description Netherlands. Quint days afterward, the Land army surrender.
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Anne Frank: Diary
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The Diary Begins
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House where Anne Frank and her family hid (Photo)
The house at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne Frank and her family were hidden. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After 1935.
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Anne Frank and her family fled Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933 and resettled in the Netherlands, where her father, Otto, had business connections. The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May 1940, and two years later German authorities with help from their Dutch collaborators began rounding up Jews and ultimately deported them to killing centers.
In July 1942, Anne, her sister, Margot, her mother, Edith, and her father went into hiding. They huddled into a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street, which would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well.
While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences. She received her first diary on her 13th birthday, June 12, 1942. She wrote:
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