June 12, 2022: 93 Years Since Anne Frank's birth; June 25, 2022: 75 years since her diary printed
From the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
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93rd anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth
June 12, 2022 — Today it is 93 years ago that Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main. ‘Annelies Marie, born on 12 June 1929, 7.30 AM, 8¼ pounds, 54 cm’, wrote her mother Edith for Anne in a baby book. On the anniversary of her birth we reflect on her life, significance and diary.
Anne was given her diary for her 13th birthday, on 12 June 1942. It was something she really wanted. Her parents let her to pick one out herself in a bookshop. On the cover she wrote: ‘I 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.’ Three weeks later, on 6 July, Anne went into hiding with her family in the Secret Annex, the hidden apartment at the rear of her father’s business premises on the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam. The diary was one of the first items she packed.
the diary offered Anne the support she desperately needed during the hiding period. Writing was a way of venting her heart and also using her ambitions. She hoped one day to become a famous writer or journalist. On 28 March 1944, Minister Bolkestein’s appeal to the Dutch on radio Oranje to keep important documents about the war inspired Anne: she planned after the war to publish a book about her time in hiding. She also came up with a title: Het Achterhuis, or The Secret Annex. She worked hard. In four months, until the arrest on 4 August 1944, Anne rewrote a large part of her diary, omitted some texts and added many new ones. She describes the period from 12 June 1942 to 29 March 1944.Father Otto, the only one in the family to survive the war, granted his daughter’s wish posthumously. Het Achterhuis, or The Secret Annex, was published on 25 June 1947, this year 75 years ago.
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75 years first print diary Anne Frank
75 years ago, on June 25, 1947, Anne Frank's diary was published for the first time in the Netherlands, just over five years after Anne's thirteenth birthday, the day she had received her diary. She had come up with the title of the book herself: Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex). Looking back, Otto Frank wrote: ‘How proud Anne would have been if she had lived to see this. After all, on 29 March 1944, she wrote: "Imagine how interesting it would be if I published a novel about the Secret Annex."'
Read more about the publication of Anne's diary
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80 years ago Anne gets her diary
On her thirteenth birthday, just before they went into hiding, Anne was presented with a diary. During the two years in hiding, Anne wrote about events in the Secret Annex, but also about her feelings and thoughts. When the Minister of Education of the Dutch government in England made an appeal on Radio Orange to hold on to war diaries and documents, Anne was inspired to rewrite her individual diaries into one running story, titled Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex).
The most frequently asked questions about Anne's diary
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The two versions of Anne’s diary
From 20 May 1944 onwards, Anne rewrote a large part of her diary. She planned to publish this book about her time in the Secret Annex after the war. For a title, she came up with Het Achterhuis or The Secret Annex. What are the most striking differences between the two versions?
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Holocaust diaries by other young writers
Anne Frank was not the only one who kept a diary during the Holocaust. Many other young Jewish people also wrote about their lives and their feelings in those difficult times. Read here about the differences and similarities with Anne's diary:
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/holocaust-diaries-anne-frank-and-other-young-writer/
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The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.Wikipedia
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May 03, 1960
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Prinsengracht 263-265, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Biographical museum, Historic house museum
"And what about hope? Since the beginning, thanks in part to her buoyant, irrepressible spirit and in part to her words:
'I still believe that human beings are good at heart,'
Anne and her diary have been nearly synonymous with a particular form of hope, that is, faith in humanity and the future.
Her words became not only a comfort for millions but a sort of moral imperative, as if to fail at hoping was to fail at being human. Or, alternatively, as if her benediction absolved us all for the moral failure of the Holocaust. But this line – quoted by Meyer Levin, who reviewed the diary in the New York Times Book Review in 1952 and introduced it to America – was plucked out of context and skewed over time to present a message that suited the audience more than it reflected Anne’s more nuanced thinking. The passage, written on July 15, 1944, follows:
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
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.
In fact, hope and its inevitable companion, despair, are among the most prevalent of the themes that run through the diaries of this period. On this subject, too, there are nuances upon nuances across the body of material: some writers expressed determined hope in the face of despair, others voiced fear, supplication to God, resignation, rage, or philosophical acceptance.
If there is a virtue in confronting these writers’ points of view, it perhaps lies in seeing their great multiplicity, which, in turn, prevents us from too easily adopting any judgment as our own. The answers to these most difficult questions must lie somewhere in the material’s wide and endless range."
Anne Frank at her desk at the Montessori School in Amsterdam (winter 1940). In this picture, Anne is 11 years old and in sixth grade.
I am trying to post the scanned jpeg of the cover but it is not posting. I will have to figure out why.
But the edition I have is: "With an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt."
It is a Bantam book, published July 1993. However, this is not the first version I ever bought of this book. I will try to find the cover online...
I found it. This is the cover of the book I have:
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