“Ode: “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” by William Wordsworth. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Today is the birthday of Anne Frank (born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1929), who died at the age of 14 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust. Frank, her family, and four other people hid for two years in an attic space above Frank’s father’s business warehouse. The space was called “The Secret Annex,” and they survived through the help of Otto Frank’s employees, who brought them food, newspapers, and sundries. The space was small and cramped, and the eight people had to follow strict routines about when to use the bathroom, when to go to bed, and even when they could talk, for fear of rousing the suspicion of the workers in the warehouse. The Secret Annex was entered through a revolving bookcase. We would probably not know of Anne Frank’s life, or certain details of what life was like for Jews during the Holocaust, if Anne had not left behind a little red and white checkered diary that she called “Kitty.”
Thank you for the repost on Anne Frank. Coincidentally, I converted to Judaism on her birthday back in 2019. I did not choose the date, I let my Rabbi do that. It was an overwhelming/surreal feeling when I realized the importance of the date, not to mention my actual birthday was her last diary entry and so many other dates of hers line up in my life.
Do not forget Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Thank you for the repost on Anne Frank. Coincidentally, I converted to Judaism on her birthday back in 2019. I did not choose the date, I let my Rabbi do that. It was an overwhelming/surreal feeling when I realized the importance of the date, not to mention my actual birthday was her last diary entry and so many other dates of hers line up in my life.