Happy birthday Anne Frank (12 June 1929 - March 1945)
This is also the day that she received her diary for her 13th birthday in 1942.
My dearest Kitty,
‘This is D-Day,’ the BBC announced at twelve. ‘This is the day.’ The invasion has begun!…
…A huge commotion in the Annex! Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation? The liberation we’ve all talked so much about, which stil seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? Will this year, 1944, bring us victory? We don’t know yet. But where there’s hope, there’s life.
—Excerpt from Anne Frank’s diary entry on June 6, 1944
(Just under two months after this entry the Frank family was arrested by German police.)
The only film footage of Anne Frank in existence. (~20 seconds)
This date in history:
Anne Frank and her family are deported on the last train ever from Westerbork concentration camp to Auschwitz.
Three days later they would finally arrive. At 15 years old, she was one of the youngest people in the train to arrive and not be immediately gassed to death.
Upon arrival she was stripped naked and disinfected, had her head shaved, and given a tattooed number on her skin.
September 3, 1944 - 67 years ago today
