really isnt anything I can add that many other reviews havent already done, Its a five star read because it is important, because it is real and because the holocaust is something we should never forget, For herth birthday Anne Frank received a diary she dubbed
Kitty, Shortly after her birthday with the fear that her older sister, Margo may be taken by the Nazis the Franks disappear into the night and go into hiding, It is through Kitty that Anne records her thoughts and daily life living behind a bookcase in the secret annex,
When I was younger I went through a "holocaust" phase before moving on to Harriet Tubman and slavery, The funny thing is that Anne Frank's Diary was not the first Holocaust book I read, I think that was The Devil's Advocate, Anyway,I soon became fascinated by the Secret Annex and the secluded life she lived for two years, Unfortunately she and the other occupants of the Annex were betrayed and sent to concentration camps with only her father Otto Frank surviving, The tragic thing not to minimize the inhumanity of it all is that Anne died mere weeks before liberation, Anne's dream was to have her diary published after the war and after liberation her father saw that happen, making Kitty a time capsule to an unfathomable past,
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How can you not give this classic diary the coveted:
Note: this book is listed as one of the most popular books to be banned, over the past decade, from both schools and private libraries.
Support freedom of expression by reading and buying banned books! While her story is sad, the naked Emperor cult around this book is unmerited,
The key quotation about people being basically good at heart is absurd in the light of the story, and from a theological perspective, just plain wrong,
Dear Mom and Dad, Dear Friends,
Thats my end, They have come to take me to be shot, To hell. Dying at the utmost of victory is a little unfortunate, but what cares The importance of an event is just in humans mind, Pierre Benoit/ February,/ Free interpretation from Letters of Those Who Were Being Shot,
A letter to Anne Frank
My Dear Little Girl,
Until today, it has never occurred to me that going through a page of a book into the last page was so annoying and distressing.
I have read too many books that its author has left it in the middle but any open ending and unfinished one hasnt been so painful for me, If I read the book disregarding your story, it is nothing more than the personal notes of a freshly mature girl: description of unimportant stories, the passionate feelings of adolescence and nags about food and living conditions during the Second World War.
But now that I know what happened to you, will I can leave easily your wishes, the future you imagined for yourself, your dreams and hopes without grief and tear You wished to be devoted to something, you wanted to be useful and make joy for all those who you might never saw.
You wanted to live even after your death, Although your memories didnt end the way you wanted, Although the story of your grey but hopeful days remained unfinished, I followed your unwritten story up to the top of Auschwitz chimneys, until the BergenBelsen mass graves.
Your wish came true. You are a symbol of innocence, hope and depredated childhood for me and thousands of others, Though you lost your life, your love to the life, to the tree, to the sky has become a power in our heart to fight that part of human nature which took the living chance from you to not portray your fate in other children To you and Peter be the last children of human being who were drawn to the cross of injustice and discrimination.
Yes, we swore and we will stand up to the day that human being is the helper of the other one,
Tehran, February,
پدر و مادر عزیزم دوستان عزیز! این پایان کار من است, آمدهاند که من را برای تیرباران شدن ببرند به جهنم. مردن در منتهای پیروزی کمی تاسفآور است اما چه اهمیتی دارد اهمیت یک واقعه تنها در خیال آدمیست پییر بنوآفوریه/ برداشت آزاد از نامههای تیرباران شدهها
نامهای به آن فرانک
دخترک عزیزم
تا امروز هرگز پیش نیامده بود که گذر از یک صفحهی کتاب به صفحهی آخر برایم چنین عذابآور و ناراحت کننده باشد, کتابهای زیادی خواندهام که نویسنده آن را نیمهکاره رها کرده اما هیچ پایان باز و به سرانجام نرسیدهای این اندازه برایم دردآور نبود. کتاب را اگر فارغ از سرگذشتت بخوانم چیزی نیست جز دلنوشتههای یک دختر تازه بالغ: شرح ماجراهای بیاهمیت احساسات پرشور دوران نوجوانی و غرولندهایی دربارهی خوراک و وضعیت زندگی در دوران جنگ جهانی دوم. اما حالا که میدانم چه بر سرت آمده مگر میتوانم از آرزوهایت از آیندهای که برای خود متصور بودی از رویاها و امیدهایت به سادگی بدون اندوه و اشک بگذرم تو آرزو داشتی وقف چیزی شوی میخواستی مفید شوی و برای همهی آنها حتی کسانی که هرگز ندیدی لذت بیافرینی. میخواستی بعد از مرگت هم به زندگی ادامه دهی. اگر چه خاطراتت آنطور که میخواستی به پایان نرسید اگر چه داستان روزهای خاکستری ولی پر امیدت ناتمام ماند اما من داستان نانوشتهی تو را تا بلندای دودکشهای آشویتس دنبال کردم تا گورهای دستهجمعی برگن. تو به آرزویت رسیدی. تو برای من و هزاران تن دیگر نمادی هستی از معصومیت امید و کودکیای که به یغما رفته است. اگرچه زندگی تو از دست رفت اما عشق تو به زندگی به درخت به آسمان در قلب ما نیرویی شد برای مبارزه با آن بخش از سرشت انسان که فرصت زیستن را از تو گرفت تا سرنوشت تو در کودکان دیگر تجسم نیابد تا تو و پتر آخرین فرزندان انسان باشید که به صلیب بیعدالتی و تبعیض کشیده میشوید. آری ما قسم خوردیم و تا آن روز که انسان یار انسان باشد مقاومت خواهیم کرد
تهرانفوریهI'm really surprised by the number of people who thought this book was boring,
I could understand how an adult man might find the musings of a young girl rather dull, but how can people in general not find this journal utterly fascinating Here is a teenage girl who up until the end wrote with the same emotional consistency as when she began.
Whoever thinks this books is boring is because they simply fail to realize, or even imagine the conditions in which this diary was written under, To think how this young girls personal life continued beyond the details of the war is rather remarkable,
What would anyone else have written about in their diary as young boy or girl in the same predicament as the Franks
Anne is surprisingly strong and mature for her age, impressively intelligent, and although there was a World War going on, her own particular world never abated.
Her personal life was just as important, if not necessary in order for her to survive the day to day living conditions at the Annex,
Yes, there were brief moments of panic, but she had to live life, even if her living space was limited, She carried on as if being in hiding was a mere temporary inconvenience, She wasn't going to let that rob of her of her right to claim her passage into womanhood, . her God given right to experience puberty, moodiness, emotions, and even love,
Here I thought I was about to read the semiinteresting scribbles of a blooming young lady, with ambiguous references to the war, But there is nothing cryptic about her diary, She shoots straight from the hip in this incredibly and shockingly honest account of what life was like for her and her family living in hiding during the WW, It's not what I expected at all, I expected something rather tame, but it's far from it, This young girl was very interesting and quite special,
You can't read this journal and think it's just an ordinary diary of a young girl, because it's not, Anne's diary is a representation of how other Jewish families lived and coped during the Nazi war, That's a pretty powerful thing, Many people don't realize how fortunate we are thanks to Anne Frank, her Father Otto Frank and Miep Gies to have some insight on how it must have been for the Jews to coexist this way.
Because of Anne, we have an idea of how it was like to live under floorboards, in between walls, and behind bookshelves, This diary humanizes and brings back to life the Jewish people who mysteriously disappeared but who had not yet died,
I love this diary and I'm so grateful to have read it,
It must have been extremely difficult for her father Otto Frank to read his daughters diary after her death,
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