On this day, for her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank received an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth and with a small lock on the front which she decided she would use as a diary. She named it Kitty and began writing in it almost immediately. Anne’s family had moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party won the federal election, but after Germany occupied the Netherlands they were forced to hide in an attic. Anne used her diary to describe her everyday life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, gaining fame posthumously and becoming one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust when Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex), commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, was first published in 1947. It is today one of the world’s best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Read Bob Lynn’s short story “The Gift of Words”
about Ann Frank’s 13th birthday HERE
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