Name: Stephanie
June 28, 2007 10:07 AM | Location:
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I attempted to read it when i was 19 but couldnt do it wells so i gave up but yesterday I found it and decided to read it (Im 15 now) I read the whole book in about 4-5 hours it really moved me and im really happy i tryed reading it again, now im starting a diary as well. I look up to her she was just....i cant explan it she was just an unique person amazing, |
Name: Amber
June 27, 2007 02:59 AM | Location:
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In 6th grade I was required to read this book and I fell in love with the story it was so hard to believe a girl at my ( back then) was put through all that, anne frank became my hero she has inspired me I collect anything and everything i can get about her I want to thank her father otto frank for publishing her diary if it wasnt for him publishing her diary nobody would know what jews went through during the holocaust. I am still inspired to this day by the frank family, they were incredable people I dont understand how people could do that to others especially because of their religion. God bless you all. |
Name: Beverly
June 25, 2007 04:44 PM | Location:
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I read the diary when I was 12. I am 44 years old.I have never had a book (other than The Holy Bible) leave me shook.I am so glad I read it. I believe Anne's diary should be required reading, lest we forget. Thank you, Otto, for sharing Anne's writing with us. Because of her diary, I became interested in WWII, and the Holocaust. I visited Dachau in 1998, and I believe I got the courage to do so because of Anne.Please make sure Anne's diary NEVER goes out of print. She is one of those people who are stronger in death than in life, and I mean that in a respectful way. |
Name: maribel c
June 24, 2007 02:56 AM | Location:
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i 1st read her diary when i was a 5th grader now i am only a few mins 4rm turning 14 and just 2day i enjoyed once more ready her diary. she is so wonderful and full of strenghth she is my role model.i wish she still lived she never deserved to die. i want to be a famous writer just like her...i consider her a close friend...& understand how she felt then... |
Name: cassandra
June 21, 2007 05:26 PM | Location:
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I am 11. I read Anne franks diary and now i read all the time and mostly i read about the holocaust. Her diary made a great impression on me. I feel that it was so wrong what the Nazis did to the Jews. They are just like everybody else. At the end of her diary i cried. Tears were dripping down my cheeks. I hope everybody learns about the holocaust so nothing like that will ever happen EVER again. Also I will always read about the holocaust. |
Name: W
June 21, 2007 05:23 AM | Location:
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I read the diary when I was 13 and it made a huge impression on me. I started a diary myself and kept diaries for a long time afterwards till I got married. Recently I started reading more about the Holocaust and that period in history. I bought a copy & re-read it and I still found it very sad and moving...I cannot understand how this awful thing happened but then I look around and the same awful things continue. While Anne's voice still continue to talk to us, we are remaining deaf. I wish she had lived. |
Name: Em
June 20, 2007 11:37 PM | Location:
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I am 11 and Anne frank is well known in my class. I will never understand why any one would want to kill someone,even if there Jewish! One of my closest friends is JewishI wish I had the same courage she had. Anne Frank wanted to be remembered in life and she is. Never stop talking about her, let her live on forever! |
Name: Monica
June 11, 2007 04:53 PM | Location:
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I read Anne Frank in elementary school:it was so difficult to read, as her suffering was conveyed w/out pretense. The child in me knew the child in Anne Anne. I saw Anne as a survivor despite her death. Without me knowing it at the time her diary taught me in my youth--that all life is based in spirit. Now I am an adult writer. Anne's writer's voice, as she wished, survived her death beyond her wildest dreams. That gives some consolation for the grief I feel about the scope of her tragedy. Her voice is too clear and simple not to be believed. I was a history major in college, and the way we studied was using the Annales school, which emphasizes gathering history through source materials "from the ground up" as is Anne's diary. Her writing tells history the best way--a direct source with little intervention (only her father's editing, a minimal influence). Her idealism against the backdrop of what they endured is a testament to the best in humanity. But we must take warning and stop similar repression happening again today. We must ask ourselves to look at our current times with the eyes of Anne's experience, let ourselves see clearly and take action in some way to stop holocaust from happening again. Holocaust,like history, repeats itself unless we take responsibility for protecting vulnerable groups. Holocaust repeats itself when gov'ts are allowed to dispose of and brutalize human beings. We must take heed from Anne's experience: people "bought into" the "party line" and let themselves be deluded into scapegoating Jews. Hatred became necessary to support the state. Why does a society degenerate into such moral decay? Where is it happening again now in the West? These are the questions that must accompany our treatment of Anne Frank. And finally, what will I do? What will we do? How do we keep people aware? |
Name: Katy
June 11, 2007 08:29 AM | Location:
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The Diary of Anne Frank was definitely one of those books that stuck with me my whole life. As a child, I identified a lot with Anne.
The thing I came away with most, aside from all the pictures and even that snippet of film with Anne in it (I never even knew that existed!) is how profounding smart she was.
Her father must have been so proud of her. I don't know very many adults who have a tenth of her wisdom, insight and character.
The thing I think about most when I think of Anne is what kind of an amazing woman she would've grown up to be. |
Name: feeza
June 11, 2007 02:22 AM | Location:
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eversince i've first read about anne frank, i've started to take in great interest in her childhood lives and at times, i wouold imagine her surviving the war. how it would be like for her if only she wasn't diagnosed with the disease ... i would very much like to be like her and have the courage as strong as her cause i've idolised her from the very beginning when i first knew of her existance ... i really salute her and her easy going self throughout the war and her fearless character had made her an even more stronger person at heart. she's changed the way i've looked and judge people and everything else around me. i hope everybody around the world will look up to her the way we all do =D |
