THE VERY FIRST WORDS OF HER DIARY WERE...
*"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" - JUNE 12 1984
Anne Frank, diary entry (19th November, 1942) Dussel has told us a lot about the outside world, which we have missed for so long now. He had very sad news. Countless friends and acquaintances have gone to a terrible fate. Evening after evening the green and grey lorries trundle past. The Germans ring at every door to enquire if there are any Jews living in the house. If there are, then the whole family has to go at once. If they don't find any, they go on to the next house. No one has a chance of evading them unless one goes into hiding. Often they go round with lists, and only ring when they can get a good haul.
In the evenings, when it's dark, I often see rows of good, innocent people accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, bullied and knocked about until they almost drop. No one is spared - old people, babies, expectant mothers, the sick - each and all join in the march of death.
Anne Frank, diary entry (9th October, 1943) Our many Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozen. These people are being treated by the Gestapo without a shred of decency, being loaded into cattle trucks and sent to Westerbork.
Anne Frank, diary entry (11th April, 1944) Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different to all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will then 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.
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Anne Frank, diary entry (11th April, 1944) Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different to all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will then 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.
For more diary entries...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfrankA.htm
