Name: Alicia
September 24, 2003 04:49 PM | Location:
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I'm 15 years old ... About the same age as when Anne Frank died. We are learning about Anne Frank and the Holucaust in school in English class right now. I didn't know exactly what the holucaust was all about till now. Anne had to live in a secret Annexe for about 2 years. I can't believe she died in a concentration camp ... just to think of how horible that would be. Some of the thing that happened to her and her family were just horible. Some people are still living today that were in the holocaust. If only Anne and her family could be with us here today on earth that would be awesome! I recommend all the books that deal with Anne Frank .. they are wonderful!! |
Name: Shannon Berry
September 24, 2003 02:43 PM | Location:
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I have been looking over the exhibition for the better part of the past hour. I am currently teaching Anne's Diary in my first year college composition class. I appreciate how you have shown Ann's development as a writer and person, since part of what I am teaching with her book is the development of Anne as a writer. But so much more comes out the discussions I have with my students: Anne's emerging maturity, her insight and emotional content, and of course the complexity of being in hiding. All of my students are required to visit this site. I think the experience here will enrich our discussion and our understanding of who Anne really was. Thank you so much. |
Name: Priscy aka negrita
September 23, 2003 04:32 PM | Location:
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I'm only 16 years old. I haven't lived much and there is so much I still want to do in my life. Anne died at age 15 and that's just horrible that she never got to live her dreams and her ambitions. I read her diary and I can relate to the many feelings and thoughts that she writes down. I can relate to her trials of love, trust and finding herself within the walls of the secret annexe. There were some pats that I laughed because she has a such a livley ways of putting things and she seeemd to always have good humor considering the fact she was enclosed for 2 years. Anne's diary is really something I can realate to. |
Name: Anitha Guna Wijaya
September 20, 2003 12:36 PM | Location:
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I am writing this with anne frank's diary in front of me. This book is the most precious thing ever happened in my life. I first knew about Anne from the Time Article and never took further notice until it showed up itself out of the bookcase 3 yrs later. At the time i felt my life was so miserable, it came to me and somehow told me that there had been a girl named Anne of my age who had the same feelings as i did. After reading it, I feel Anne's presence was no longer staying at the book but it enters everyone's heart who has read it. She has given us a true story about love, teenager's life, and the cruelty of war.
For me, she's already become part of my deepest soul and noone can ever separate her from me. |
Name: undisclosed
September 20, 2003 10:58 AM | Location:
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I am reading the book at the moment. It proves to me that teenagers of that time are exactly the same way now. Anne frank had thoughts and feelings of her own, like many of the teenagers today. She had wanted clothes that were in style. She had more problems living in the Secret Annexe than the adulkts did. I think it is very nice to know what Anne Frank, a young teenagermy age, was thinking ata time of such chaos and craziness due to war and prejudicness. |
Name: Echo
September 17, 2003 01:25 PM | Location:
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I heard many things about this book as I was growing up, but never took the time to read it. Last year in my U.S History class I learned some things about the Holocaust. With just the few things that I learned I was intrested in learning more. So, my mom told me that I should read Anne Frank. Instead of getting it at the library I just went out and bought it. I may be 17 and older then many other people that have read it,but I still agree with some of the thoughts that she had stated. One of them being how she was saying something along the lines of how it is harder for the kids to live in the Annex, then the parents. I also got to learn from a real person her feelings and thoughts through the Holocaust. Anyway, I think everyone should read this book! |
Name: Lyn
September 16, 2003 02:47 PM | Location:
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I was 13 when I first read the diary -- in the mid-1960's -- and it was really the first time I'd ever heard of concentration camps, Nazi's, Jews in hiding, etc. There weren't a lot of movies and books about it then and we didn't study it in history. I couldn't bear it that Anne had died in a concentration camp. It was like losing my best friend. When I was about 16 I found the book by Ernest Schnabel (may not be spelled right), sort of a sequel to the diary in which he told what had happened to each person. In the decades since then I've collected every book about Anne I could find. The latest one I bought last spring, called "Otto Frank The Hidden Life". |
Name: Teresa Fleming
September 14, 2003 06:01 PM | Location:
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I first read the diary at age 12. I was so struck by the similiarities in Anne's life and my own. This was a girl who lived decades earlier and yet she spoke of the same feelings I was experiencing at the time. As I learned more about her and her life, I came to realize just what a precious gift had been lost when Anne had die. I have read many other Holocaust accounts, but I have never been as touched as I was and still am by the simple eloquence of the thoughts and feeling of a young girl hiding in an office in Amsterdam. I truly hope that her words can inspire other to learn not to hate. |
Name: Camille Estanislao, 11
September 14, 2003 05:54 AM | Location:
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Her writings are so beautiful. Since I want to be a great writer and illustrate my books, I got interested in Anne Frank. A short biography stated that her writings are 'completely advanced and very deep for her age' and I've seen that to be true. Her stories -- like Eva's Dream -- are simple yet pretty. |
Name: caity
September 14, 2003 05:43 AM | Location:
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when i read the book in grade 6, i read it to please my mother and found the book intrigueing but slightly boring. I re-read it at the age of 13 and became overcome with emotion as i realised this wasn't a story or a novel. This was real. This actually happened. I then read several other books and saw documentaries and movies, or anything that informed me what i read nad saw....was true. You begin to wonder if there were thousands of other girls like Anne, who had the same dreams, hopes and memories. You begin to wonder what went threw Hitler's mind during WW2.Most people believe he should be brutally murdered. I find that not good enough. I got my idea of what to do to him from Anne of Green Gables. Someone should turn Hitler into a good man, a great man. So he could then realise what he did to those people, and would have to live with what he did for the rest of his life. Anne Frank was as normal as anyone else. But Hitler made her stand apart because of religion. I wonder if she lost faith. Because i know i have, and i never experienced what she or any of the other 6 billion children had to. I want that faith back. I want to become ignorant again. But i have lost faith. |
