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On August 1, 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entryHer family was arrested three days later. An excerpt from the article:
"The Frank family went into hiding on June 12, 1942 and Anne began writing in her diary two days later on the 14th. From June 14, 1942 to August 1, 1944, the teenager would document life inside the attic in her diary, which she addressed to “Kitty,” ultimately becoming one of the most complete first-hand accounts of a Holocaust victim…
Three days after her last diary entry, on August 4, 1944, German police entered the attic and arrested all the occupants.
15-year-old Anne’s entry from August 1, 1944 reads as follows:
'Dearest Kitty,
“A bundle of contradictions” was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. Can you please tell me exactly what “a bundle of contradictions” is? What does “contradiction” mean? Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within.
The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always knowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The latter, for which I’m not known, is my own secret.
As I’ve told you many times, I’m split in two...'"
"The Frank family went into hiding on June 12, 1942 and Anne began writing in her diary two days later on the 14th. From June 14, 1942 to August 1, 1944, the teenager would document life inside the attic in her diary, which she addressed to “Kitty,” ultimately becoming one of the most complete first-hand accounts of a Holocaust victim…
Three days after her last diary entry, on August 4, 1944, German police entered the attic and arrested all the occupants.
15-year-old Anne’s entry from August 1, 1944 reads as follows:
'Dearest Kitty,
“A bundle of contradictions” was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. Can you please tell me exactly what “a bundle of contradictions” is? What does “contradiction” mean? Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within.
The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always knowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The latter, for which I’m not known, is my own secret.
As I’ve told you many times, I’m split in two...'"
Anne Frank's Last Diary Entry
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WriterUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Murder
WWII World War Two Literature WriterUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum Murder
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Can't count the number of times I've read this and it's still troubling every time.
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SGT (Join to see) from the grave, a world will have an uncorrupted witness to leave behind a vantage point of a very painful truth immortalized in words.
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