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Name: Ashley Lauren
September 20, 2005 04:40 PM | Location:
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I read Anne Frank's diary and can't believe how strong she was, all the hardships she faced, yet how she knew how to stay cheerful. Her story helped me learn so much more about the Holocuast, and Anne Frank remains a role model to me. | Name: Ariel Uniss Parker
September 20, 2005 04:13 PM | Location:
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Right now in our contemporary world, so many young people destroy themselves never having known even a fraction of their potential. It's a shame more people aren't inspired by Anne's story. Be passionate, grasp your rights as humans on this earth. The right to live. The right to be educated. The right to fight for survival. The right to love and be loved. | Name: Frank
September 19, 2005 02:30 PM | Location:
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I read Anne Frank's diary because I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust. It was very emotional for me. I cried through part of it. I had never before in my life read about someone who had to go into hiding because the Nazis were going to kill the Jews. Anne Frank was a beautiful, talented, and spirited girl who deserved to live longer than fifteen. Her diary has maid me feel thankful for what I have; not what I don't have. | Name: Meegan
September 12, 2005 09:05 AM | Location:
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I am 13 years old, and i have read Anne Franks diary many times. but no matter how many times I readit I cry. It has helped me to go on in life, fighting my personal problems and given me a reason to be thankful. I am certain know that there are many others like myself who feel the same. If only we could thank Anne!!!!! This dairy is a great inspiration to do good and help others. thank you for lettting me express myself, not to the furthest extent but further than i expected. | Name: Megan Maddox
July 30, 2005 06:43 PM | Location:
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I read the diary of Anne Frank after we studied the Holocaust in school.I was deeply moved by Anne's writing, but also deeply sad that someone with her potential was murdered for no reason. What we must all understand,no matter how hard it is, is that she was only one person with a complex life full of meaning, out of the other thousands who were killed by the Nazis. That is what makes her diary so great and profound. It is a true testament of time. It will always be there to remind us of what happened in one girls life, and help us never to forget. | Name: Geoff
July 02, 2005 10:19 PM | Location:
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I, like many others, read Anne Franks diary in school as an assignment. I now have four children of my own and I will have them read the book as well.
I want my children to see the loack of bitterness in a young woman in the middle of a war. I want my children to see that if we treated people as we would want to be treated then we would have no wars. I want my girls to see the spirit Anne showed when her life as she knew it was being taken from her. There is not a man woman or child who is old enough to read who can not learn from the diary of Anne Frank. | Name: Pascuala Brownlee
July 02, 2005 06:27 PM | Location:
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My husband had been
trying to talk me into reading Ann Frank's Diary for almost a year. He had bought the latest released copy of it. I didn't want to read it because I knew the end of it from previous references to it, and movies made about it. I knew the ending, and I knew it was a sad ending, so I had nothing to look forward to I thought. Not that I don't appreciate sad or sudden endings. I just don't like to know ahead of time about them. Even when I see or read a story with a sad ending, I don't regret it if it was appealing to my taste. Finally, I decided to read it as an act of love toward him. I know the love and care that can be behind when we desire so much to share a good book with someone we love. I enjoyed the reading very much. Interestingly enough, thru my reading I found something to look forward to. As I mentioned earlier I knew the ending, but not every detail about it. Well, I learned thru Ann's Diary that Ann and everyone in the Annex were looking forward so much the invasion. Altough their rightfully so best dream was to gain back their freedom to be and become, they also look forward to and cherish the so badly wanted and expected invasion as a sign of hope for their so desire freedom. Well, thru the middle of reading I wanted so bad that at least the invasion would occured before they were discovered, and was happy when I found out it did. They were able to celebrate at least the beginning of the end of such a terrible and sad times of humankind. I was glad to hear that for at least a month they heard that there were great numbers of people with enough courage, commitment, and determination to return humanity what have never should have been taken away from it: To Have The Choice To Live and Die with Dignity.
I must admit that in spite of this, I felt very touched and deeply sad for their fate. However, I am glad I read her Diary. I just finished reading it on yesterday, and I am still digesting the knowledge and feeling acquired from the experience. For now I can only say, that up until yesterday not history book or class, or recording had ever made me feel so much sorrow and absolute confusion to comprenhend the Holocaust. Thank you for providing me with an outlet were to express my still turnoil of emotions as a result of reading the prelude to The Secret Annex | Name: Madi
June 26, 2005 01:48 AM | Location:
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I read Anne's diary as a child, and I was deeply affected by her writings. Now, reviewing her work as an adult has brought new emotions to light. I am married to a Jewish man, and my children are Jewish. It pains me to think that my fellow human beings brought so much calamity to the world. They wounded the world, and we will never truly heal from this hurt. Anne speaks truthfully from her heart, and she still has faith that people are good at heart. What an optimistic view from a child, a beautiful , wonderful, talented child, who was destined to die. We lost so many souls in the Holocaust. Anne makes us remember them. And we should always remember, because we can never sustain a wound like that again. It would destroy us inside . . . and out. | Name: Claire
June 19, 2005 07:29 AM | Location:
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I'm 25 years old and I've never actually sat down and read the diary of Anne Frank, until 2 days ago.I wasnt quite sure what to expect to be honest, I just happened to be in my local libary one day and there it sat looking at me on the shelf and I just grabbed it! It was and is such a deep and meaningful look into the life of this young girl. It has left me feeling many mixed emotions, sadness, heartache, joy, and so many other feelings I cannot discribe into words. Her diary has made me think so much about life, my life and it will continure to make me think for a long time to come. | Name: Kirsten
June 15, 2005 07:19 PM | Location:
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Although the situations that Anne Franke went through seem very different on the surface, she really seems to be recording a sort of speeded up journey through the main stages of adolescent developemnt. The curious thing with her journal is that while it takes place during a war, it still voices the same anxieties that come into my life with the same force in the present, though with seemingly less justification. There is comfort for me in knowing that some feelings are universal, and that sanity can be maintained in the strangest and most frighteningly unfamiliar circumstamces. I like thinking that if Anne could have matured that quickly and gracefully, then I might also go forth with the same hope, and live long enough to act out some of her dearest wishes for humanity. I am only at the beginning my journey at the age of 13, but Anne has certainly given me a glimpse of the person I can become. |
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