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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]
Hillary Clinton, in her acceptance speech for an Elie Wiesel Humanitarian Award in 1994, read from Anne Frank's diary and spoke of her "awakening us to the folly of indifference and the terrible toll it takes on our young," which Clinton related to contemporary events in Sarajevo, Somalia and Rwanda. [136]
In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in a secret attic apartment where she would write the remainder of the diary. After Frank's family was arrested in 1944, the diary was ...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex. The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal (first ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982198237. Anne Frank (2003). David Barnouw; Gerrold Van der Stroom (eds.). The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Compiled by H. J. J. Hardy.
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 ...
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 ...