Anne Frank
I wonder what was going through her mind when she opened her dad's gift on her 13th birthday? Her father bought her a red checkered diary. This became her best friend as she went into hiding along the side of her family during the Holocaust. Faithfully she wrote to "Kitty" her imaginary friend and recorded her young thoughts that streamed from her old soul. Anne Frank with her family lived in hiding for two years from the Nazis under Hitlers command who where hunting Jews to exterminate.
August 4th, 1944 they were betrayed and sent to Auschwitz on September 3rd, 1944. The men and women were separated. This is the last time her father Otto saw his wife and children. Anne and her sister Margot were eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen a concentration camp in Germany where there was little food and full of diseases. Anne and her sister both became ill with typhus in early March and died just days of each other. In just a few weeks later, Russian soldiers liberated the camp. Anne Frank was just 15 years old when she left this earth along with over 1 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. Her words still live on to this day through her birthday gift from her father Otto.
What is so honored about this young girl is her thoughts that have touched generations and generations to come. We can learn to deal with dark times in our lives by Anne Franks example. Here are just a few of her quotes taken from her diary.
August 4th, 1944 they were betrayed and sent to Auschwitz on September 3rd, 1944. The men and women were separated. This is the last time her father Otto saw his wife and children. Anne and her sister Margot were eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen a concentration camp in Germany where there was little food and full of diseases. Anne and her sister both became ill with typhus in early March and died just days of each other. In just a few weeks later, Russian soldiers liberated the camp. Anne Frank was just 15 years old when she left this earth along with over 1 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. Her words still live on to this day through her birthday gift from her father Otto.
What is so honored about this young girl is her thoughts that have touched generations and generations to come. We can learn to deal with dark times in our lives by Anne Franks example. Here are just a few of her quotes taken from her diary.
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"I live in a crazy time."
"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."
"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death. ... I think ... peace and tranquility will return again."
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