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The Diary of Anne Frank

Saturday, April 1, 1944

Anne longs to be kissed! (Sigh.) She hopes Peter loves her and wonders ifhes too shy to tell her.

Monday, April 3, 1944

Anne writes about food and how food comes in cycles so you will eat

nothing but endive and lettuce for a week. You eat it because youre

hungry. This all sounds very unappetizing. Apparently it isnt a problem

only in the Annex but all over Europe.

Tuesday, April 5, 1944

Anne says that if the war isnt over by the coming September, shell

never go back to school because she doesnt want to be so far behind

everyone else. But then she decides to work hard at her school work again

so she can eventually be a journalist.

She describes a crying episode. Or rather episodeswhen she cant holdherself together when alone. Its descriptions like these that remind you

how much stress and fear Anne lives with every day.

Anne has big dreams. She wants to be a writer, impact people, and be

immortalized by her writing. Isnt this sadly ironic? But also nice that herdream came true?

Thursday, April 6, 1944

Anne lists her hobbies: writing, family trees, history, Greek and Roman

mythology, movies and movie stars, plus a few others.


Somebody tries to break into the office again and the men go downstairs

to investigate. Stupidly, Mr. Van Daan yells "police" trying to scare them

away.

A plank to the door of their secret hiding place gets busted by the

intruder.

Then a married couple comes along and shines a light inside and the menare turned from police to burglars.


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Its amazing how innocent 17 year old boys were back in the 1940s. Anne

tells Peter about female anatomy and he has a few surprises. You have to

read this entry. The humor is too good to dilute by summarizing it.

Today they kiss "near the mouth."

Anne hopes to start talking about intimate and important things, rather

than just lying around in each others arms all the time. She really wants adeep relationship.

Wednesday, April 19, 1944

This entry is short and puppy-lovey, focusing on holding Peter in her

arms and never wanting to be interrupted.

Friday, April 21, 1944

Anne had a sore throat, but is better now.

Yesterday was Hitlers birthday.

She chats on about royalty.

One of the warehouse workers, Mr. van Maaren, is probably the one who

has been stealing stuff from the office, but hes trying to blame it on Bep.

Anne wants to get some of her fiction published in a magazine under a

pseudonym.


Mr. Dussel and Mr. van Daan arent speaking to each other. Basically Mr.

Dussel is all sulky because of security measures. This guy doesnt seemvery in touch with reality and is managing to insult everyone in the Secret

Annex.

Anne is sick and is getting her family sick. Shes worried Peter will get

her cold since he insistson continuing to kissing her.

Thursday, April 27, 1944

Mrs. van Daan complains, as usual.

Anne talks about the many things she learns and does in one single school

day at home.

Friday, April 28, 1944

Anne describes her two selves: one is outgoing and amusing, the other is

shy and desperately wants to be loved.


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The second, more tender Anne came out while she was with Peter, but

shes not even sure if he noticed, which bothers her.

They actually kiss on the lips, although its not clear if that was really the

original plan.

Anne thinks deep and hard about whether what she is doing with Peter isright. She feels utterly torn. She desires the closeness desperately butdoes not feel he would be the right man to marry, so is the intimacy of

their relationship OK or not?

Anne recognizes Peters weaknesses: hes emotionally younger than his

age, and lacks courage and character.

Anne worries that shes giving too much of herself to him too soon, andmaybe she should be saving herself for Mr. Right, not Peter van Daan.

Tuesday, May 2, 1944

Anne talks to her father about her relationship with Peter. He does not

take it well, worried that she cant have a normal teenage relationship

considering the circumstances.

Father tells Anne he would rather she didnt go upstairs quite so often,

and that its up to Anne, as the female in the relationship, to "set the

limits."

Like Anne, her father also sees Peters weakness of character.

Anne and Peter discuss what Mr. Frank said, and Anne reassures Peter

that she trusts him. Peter tells Annes dad that theyll keep themselves under control in the

relationship and not get too serious.

Mr. Dussel finally apologizes for being so annoying and sulky recently.

But since he does this the day before his birthday, were suspicious thathe did it for the gifts.

Wednesday, May 3, 1944

Boche, the cat, has disappeared and Anne is making up stories about what

might have happened to him.

Anne suggests that all people are guilty for a war like this, not just the bigpoliticians and war-mongers. She thinks wars will continue until the

average people no longer have an inner desire to kill.

Anne likes the young woman she is turning out to be, and is making plansto be somebody, not just a housewife.

Friday, May 5, 1944

Daddy is not pleased. He does not want Anne to go upstairs and "neck"with Peter.


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Anne writes her father a little letter about how her life has not been easy,

shut up away as it has been, and she has had to learn to be very

independent, without support from her parents. They have not, and do

not, help her through her difficulties so she has had to become older than

she really is. So now that he wants her to be obedient and stop seeingPeter, she feels she should make her own decisions. Either he forbids orhe trusts her, theres no middle ground.

Saturday, May 6, 1944

Anne puts the letter in her fathers pocket. According to Margot, hes

pretty upset by it.

Everything costs so much more money than it used to Anne lists some

increased prices and life is so much more dangerous. Girls are

disappearing every day.

Sunday morning, May 7, 1944

Anne and her dad finally talk about the letter and they both cry.

He reproaches Anne about her letter, saying he and her mom do not

deserve to be criticized so harshly since they have always protected and

cared for her.

Anne feels terrible and repents having written it, but really only regrets

criticizing her father; she cant take back what she wrote about her mom. She decides to try to start over and be a better person, and feels she can

do it with Peters support.

Monday, May 8, 1944

Anne discusses the irony of how rich her family was both her parents

grew up with a lot of wealth compared with how they live now, withnot even enough to eat.

Anne doesnt believe she needs to be rich, but does want to study in

London and Paris, have beautiful clothes, and live a life of adventure. Miep tells Anne and Margot about a party she went to at a rich cousins

house and about all of the delicious food. The sisters are really hungryand cant stop thinking about the fancy feast Miep enjoyed.


The inhabitants of the Secret Annex learn that they will be restricted from

doing anything during the lunch hour because Mrs. B, who used to be

demonstrator for the business, wants to eat her box lunch in the office at 2p.m. every afternoon.


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This also means that they cant get supplies and potatoes from Bep during

the lunch hour.

The group jokes about getting rid of Mrs. B by slipping her a laxative.

Anne notes Mr. Dussels bathroom use schedule. He seems to go very

predictably at the same times every day.


A little bit more humor in Annes gloomy life: The cat pees and misses

the litter box. It leaks through the floor and down next to the potatoes.

Anne is in hysterics.

Thursday, May 11, 1944

Peter gets a major scolding for being more than a pest to his mom.Probably isnt a good idea to hit your mom.

Thursday, May 11, 1944 (second entry)

Anne is really busy with schoolwork, doing things like reading abiography of Galileo. Shes so busy she has to neglect her "work" (a.k.a.

mythology studying).

Anne wants to publish a book called The Secret Annexand is sure that her

diary with be a big help in the eventual writing of the book.

Anne is writing a work of fiction that she claims is based on her fatherslife.


Pims birthday was yesterday and everyone tried to spoil him.


The van Daans have an argument about who will win the war theGermans or the Allies. Mrs. van Daan thinks that Germans could win,

which makes her husband mad. Theyre incredible bickerers.

The Franks cant resist laughing at the van Daans silly arguments.

Anne does a survey about what kinds of books and subjects each memberof the Secret Annex prefers.

Friday, May 19, 1944

All is well between Anne and Peter. He seems kind of needy of affection.


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Anne decides she will not reveal her inner self to him unless he works forit. Now that shes conquered him, she takes a step back.


Annes entire portfolio of work is soaked when a vase is tipped over,

though most of it is recoverable. Her math book, unfortunately, is alsorecoverable.

Monday, May 22, 1944

The British invasion of Holland hasnt happened yet, so Mr. Frank loses

his bet with Mr. van Daan.

Anne thinks its a bit foolish that the Dutch people think its the duty of

the English to liberate Holland. Anne points out that the first priority ofthe English is to protect their own people.

More Dutch people are beginning to express anti-Semitism and Annehopes that the good, righteous Dutch people will prevail over racists.

Thursday, May 25, 1944

Bep just got engaged, which Anne thinks is a bad idea. She thinks Beps

fianc will hold Bep back from her dreams.

More bad news. The vegetable man is picked by the police up for hidingtwo

Thursday, May 25, 1944 (second entry)

Jews in his house. This is a big personal loss as well, as the girls (Bepand Miep) cant haul potatoes that far.

Friday, May 26, 1944

Anne begins to despair. Will life ever be normal again? Will the war end?Will they make it until the war ends?

Anne briefly mentions how much responsibility and tension their

protectors carry.

The plumbing is broken.

Miep is all stressed because shes worried that the Secret Annex crewthinks the protectors are anti-Semitic. Mr. Franks is astonished and tries

to talk her out of the idea.

Anne wonders if it would have been better not to go into hiding and just

be dead right now instead of suffering so much.


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Anne finally resorts to discussing the weather but in truth, the heatmakes everybody inside and outside the Secret Annex miserable.

Monday, June 5, 1944

The cat has decided to stop using the litter box and the whole Annexreeks.

Tuesday, June 6, 1944

D-Day! The invasion has begun. The British are invading France.

The Secret Annex listens to a lot of radio, including a speech by

Eisenhower. Anne is so excited and wonders if 1944 will bring an end to the war.

The invasion seems to be going well, and Anne gives some interestingdetails about the number of planes in use and how many tons of bombsare being dropped.

Friday, June 9, 1944

Good news from the Allied front. However, the war will probably not beover until the end of the year.

Everybody in the Annex reads a biography of the composer Franz Liszt.Anne describes him


Anne turns fifteen. She receives an art history book, a set of underwear, ahandkerchief, two bottles of yogurt, a pot of jam, a spiced gingerbread

cake, a book on botany, a bracelet, exercise books, sweet peas, three

slices of full-cream cheeseThe riches are stupendous given that just a

couple months earlier she was eating rotten lettuce and endives. The invasion is going well, with the Allied forces having captured many

French towns.

Anne again points out how foolish the Dutch people are for thinking the

English are lazy because they have not yet liberated Holland.

Anne reviews her faults and wonders if she is as arrogant as people think.

Shes determined to change and tries to refute her accusers arguments

against her character. She takes criticism very deeply to heart.

Anne thinks Peter loves her as a friend, not as a girlfriend. She feels like

he isnt sharing his whole self with her and cant understand why hesholding back.


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Anne is aching to be outdoors and in nature. She feels that nature is

rejuvenating and restores her courage.

Anne is an early feminist. Shes wondering why women have always

been considered inferior to men, and why women have gone along with it

for so long. Shes angry that her culture values the suffering of malesoldiers, but not the pain of women who bear children for thecontinuation of the human race.

As a fine man, but "exceptionally vain."

Wednesday, June 16, 1944

Mrs. van Daan has totally freaked out. Shes talking about lots of morbid

stuff, like getting shot. She quarrels, cusses, and cries. And it makes

everybody else rude or morose. Shes also totally jealous of Peters affection for Anne.

Mr. Kugler has received another call-up for doing forced work by theGermans, but he is trying to get out of it.

Friday, 23 June, 1944

Anne herself says, "nothing special going on here."


Everything is wonderful. The Allies have recaptured and liberated a lot of

land. Everyone is just waiting for them to reach Holland. German women not in military service are being evacuated.

Friday, June 30, 1944

Bad weather.

Tempers are improving, although the van Daans seem to be snagging

sugar. Bep has changed her hairstyle and Miep has the week off.

Mr. Dussel is doing a root canal on Anne, who almost passes out from thepain of the procedure.

Thursday, July 6, 1944

Anne despairs of Peters weak character. Why cant he improve himself?

Hes always looking for the easy way out.

Peter is starting to depend on Anne too much, which she doesnt like at

all.


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She doesnt understand Peter. He is lazy. Why doesnt he like to work or

make goals for himself? Like tons of women before her and tons of

women after her, Anne wonders, whatswrongwith him?

Peter isnt religious and even ridicules it. This bothers Anne as well. She

isnt extremely religious, but values religion because it encourages peopleto live a better life.

Saturday, July 8, 1944

They receive tons of strawberries so they are making jam.

Theres a slight scare of another break-in, but it comes to nothing.

They receive tons of green peas, too a real gift, but it will be a lot ofwork.

Saturday, July 15, 1944

Anne reads the book WhatDo You Think of the Modern Young Girl?She

then discusses her opinion of the modern young girl. She feels that the

writer was attacking youth and wishes to defend herself and her kindfrom the charges laid against them.

Anne says that one of her best qualities is that she is very self-aware. This

seems like a pretty true statement based on reading her diary.

Anne again looks at how she has been raised. She thinks that her family

didnt take her seriously and blew her off with generic parent lingo like"youll grow out of it."

Anne comes to the conclusion that she conquered Peter and that she ought

not to have allowed their intimacy.

She wonders if their lack of emotional closeness is because of his shyness

or just because hes actually more shallow than she thought.

Anne cant see a way to go back to just being casual friends with Peter,which is what she wants. He leans on her too much now.

She is surprised she hasnt lost all her ideals and faith in justice, given hersituation.

Friday, July 21, 1944

Good news: somebody has tried to kill Hitler. Unfortunately, Hitlermanaged to get away with just a few scratches and burns. But it shows

that a lot of generals and officers are sick of the war, too. Maybe itll

make the war end sooner.

Hitler lets his army know that they may shoot anybody who was involvedin this attempt on his lifewithout a trial.


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Tuesday, August 1, 1944

Anne reflects on the fact that her personality is a "bundle of

contradictions." She is a dual personality but she never shows the nicer,

softer, gentler inside Anne to peoplethey only see the frolicsome, flirty,easy-going outside Anne.

She says that when she tries to show her more quiet and serious side,

everyone thinks shes either in a sour mood or sick and pumps her full of

medicine. This is the last entry of Annes diary.

On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone has

betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then

on to Auschwitz. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Anne ends up in the

same barracks as her mother and sister. Later, Anne and Margot are taken to

Bergen-Belsen. Anne dies there in March 1945, at the age of 15. Otto Frank is

the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. The others all die.

The identity of their betrayer has never been established.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Annes diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly

after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical

girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes,

and her academic performance at school.

During the two years recorded in her diary, Anne deals with confinement and

deprivation, as well as the complicated and difficult issues of growing up in thebrutal circumstances of the Holocaust. Her diary describes a struggle to define

herself within this climate of oppression.

Annes diary ends without comment on August

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1944, the end of a seemingly

normal day that leaves us with the expectation of seeing another entry on the

next page. However, the Frank family is betrayed to the Nazis and arrested on

August

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1944 . Annes diary, the observations of an imaginative, friendly,

sometimes petty, and rather normal teenage girl, comes to an abrupt and silent

end.


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From April to August 944

On April 15, 1944, Anne gets her first kiss. Anne suddenly feels she is very

advanced for her age. She writes that the longer the war drags on, the more

difficulty she has imagining ever being liberated. She then thinks about trying tohave a fairy-tale published in a magazine.

Anne writes about her schoolwork and also includes the familys war-ration

recipe for potato kugel in her diary. She asks Peter if he thinks she should tell

her father about their relationship, and he believes they should. Mr. Frank says

that he thinks it is not a good idea to carry on a romance in the annex, and he

asks Anne if Peter is in love with her. Mr. Frank tells her not to take it too

seriously and that it is her responsibility to show restraint.

Anne wonders about the point of the war and laments that money is being spent

on fighting rather than on medicine, the poor, and the arts. She reflects on

human nature and concludes that until all of humanity undergoes a profound

change, peoples tendencies toward violence will lead to endless wars and

destruction. Anne writes that she is young and strong and living through a big

adventure. Her father complains that she is going upstairs to see Peter too

much. Anne wants to explain why she visits Peter a lot, so she writes her father

a letter, which makes him very upset. He tells her it is the most hurtful letter hehas ever received. Anne feels deeply ashamed and decides to try to improve

herself.

Anne tells her diary the story of her family, including her parents biographies.

She writes that her wish is to become a famous journalist and writer. Mr. Frank

has lost a bet with Mrs. Van Daan about when the war will end, so he has to

give her five jars of yogurt in payment. Anne hears that anti-Semitism is

becoming more common among the Dutch, and she is deeply disheartened. Shegrows depressed again and wonders if it would not have been better to suffer a

quick death rather than go into hiding. She counteracts this thought by writing

that they all love life too much.

On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the BBC announces that the Allied invasion of

France has begun. The residents of the annex are very excited. Anne turns

fifteen and writes that the liberation is going splendidly. Her mood improves,

and she contemplates her love for nature and the question of why women are

thought of as inferior to men. Near the end of July, Anne writes about an


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assassination attempt on Hitler and hopes it is proof that the Germans want to

stop the war themselves.

On August

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1944, Anne describes her new insights into her own character

and muses that perhaps she could become the kind of person she wants to be ifonly there were no other people in the world. This is the last entry of Annesdiary.

On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone has

betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then

on to Auschwitz. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Anne ends up in the

same barracks as her mother and sister. Later, Anne and Margot are taken to

Bergen-Belsen. Anne dies there in March 1945, at the age of 15. Otto Frank is

the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. The others all die.

The identity of their betrayer has never been established.

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