hhe- married my mother, who was then twenty-five. My ster Margot was bora in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany in 1926, Then I followed on 12 June, 1929. Because we are Jewish, we moved to Holland in 1933. My father is the manager of a company called Opteka, which makes things forthe jam-making business: ‘Affer 1940 things were not so good any more. Fist the war started, and then the Germans arrived in Holland. Out freedom disappeared. Under the new German. laws, Jews ‘must wear a visit Christians, and their children must go to Jewish schools Sunday, 21 June 1942 Everyone at school i waiting to hear what happens next. Who will move up a las, and who will say down? We're all trying to ‘guest! I think my gidlfiends and Iwill be OK, though we'll have ‘to wait patiently to find out. ‘Most of my teachers like me, but old Mr Keesing gets angry with me because I often talk too much! He made me do some extra homework and write about ‘Someone Who Talks Too Mach’. Wednesday, 24 June 1942 It is so hot! Yesterday I had to walk to the dentist’ from s ‘our lunch hour. I wish that we could go on a bus or a ‘course us Jevis are not allowed to do that.2. What did they do to: ty and eniy tte? book ater their heal © keep tt What would you do? 3 Do you think Anne changes in the story? Say how you think she ‘changes, or why you don’t think she changes. 4 Do you think Anne and Peter realy fll in ove? Say why or why nol ey? writing Either: Write a short newspaper report (150 words) about the final ‘of the people from the Annexe. Say who was there, how they lived ‘and who helped them, (Or: You are Anne, and you want to describe your oom in'your diary. Write about what you have there, who you share it with and what happens there (250 words). Use any information the diary. Look atthe plan ofthe Annexe to help you. Review 1 Winy do you think Anne's ary has become so famous? 2 Do you think hat itis enya sad book, or that gives us hope fr the futuro? 4 Do you tke Anne as a person” Dé you think sho isan unusual gi? Say why or why not young gici~ her ing two years of hidh Penguin Readers are simplified texts designed in association with Longman, the world famous educational publisher, to provide a step-by- proach to the joys of reading for pleasure, The series based on todays best activity material, They are pu werds) to Advanced (3000 words Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Poster [5] 6 Adana 000 i LONGMAN Published and distributed by ‘Addison Wesley LongmanTED H. FRANK AN ae Let’ stare with the story of my life. bev Mien Lwin in! “My father — the best father in the world ~ was thirty-six when Lae eee St ae Safell aslep afterwards in the” afternoon: ‘They were kind at the ugh, and gave me something to drink.* didn’t have to go to school. I'm glad its nearly the summer holidays; one more week and our suffering will be over! ‘But something amusing happened too yesterday. A boy called Hello Silberberg asked me to walk to school with him. Hello is sixteen, and tells lots of funny stories. He was waiting for me again this morning ‘Wednesday, 1 July 1942 to write until today. Hello and I know each well now. His parents are in Belgium. He came to sirlfiend called Ursula, interested in her any more. I know he Hello came over on Sunday evening. He told me that his grandmother doesnt like our meetings. But on Wednesday nights, his grandmother thinks that he goes to woodwork lessons ~ he doesn't, so he'll be free to meet me! And he said that he wants to sce me on Saturdays and Sundays too! “But if your grandmother doesn’t want You to meet me, you shouldn't do it behind her back!” g in love and war!” day to meet my Father and was tent yen he brought me home. Father was very angry 0 dangerous to be out after eight o'clock. I promised sme by ten to eight in fature. Sunday, 5 July 1942 ‘My exam results were good! My parents are pleased, of course, ‘And Margot had a brilliant report, 2s usual. Father has been at home a lot lately, because he can’t work at the business any more. It must be awful for him to feel that he's not needed there. Mr Kleiman and Mr Kugler are now the ‘managers in the off ‘When we went out fora walk together a few days ago, Father suid,‘We may have to go into hiding oon? hes-andfirnisare for more-than-a yer Germans could take everything away, and us too? He was very “But when will we go?” “Don't worry ~ we'll arrange everything, Just enjoy yourself while you can!” ‘Wednesday, 8 July 1942 ems like years since Sunda morning. So much has happened. = the whole world has turned upside down. But I'm alive, and that’s the most important ching. (On Sunday afternoon we heard that the Germans were going Saas eerste Sao fone eeicatane concentration camp. ‘Mother's gone to ask Mr van Daan about our hiding-place’ said Margot. Mr van Daan worked in the business with Daddy and is a good friend of his, ‘Then Margot told me later that there was a mistake ~ the 5(Germans had called her up, not Father. How can they take a git » of sixteen away from her family like that? But she’s not going! A hiiding-place ~ where shall we hide? Inthe city? In the coun? When, where, how ...? These questions were in my though I couldn't ask them, a diary frst, then handkerchief, schoolbooks, a comb and some old rs. Memories are more important to me than dresses. Miep and her husband Jan came-to help and share the work. iy cat. The neighbours were going to look after her. We to leave the house ~ we wanted to reach our hiding-place sal was the only thing that m More tomorrow. ‘Thursday, 9 July 1942 The hiding-place is in Father’ office building. Oxi the bottom ance to the and a small dark one at the back. Not many people ‘Me Kugler, Mr Kleiman, Miep and a work in Father’ offices, j twenty-three-year-old typist called Bep Voskuijl. Mr Voskuijl, Bep’s father, works in the warehouse with two helpers, who don't know anything about us. From Mr Kugler’ office atthe back, you go up another four stairs and you come to the private office, Johannes Kleiman and Vitor Kugler. Amsterdam, 1945. srhich' wézy Gne and has good Sarudeure.Up on the third floor is our ‘Secree Annexe’, There are some attics for storage on the left, and on the right is the door to our /hiding-place. I's surprising that there are so many rooms behind that small grey door. Margot and I share a small room, and Mother and Father’s bedroom is also our sitting-room, Up the stairs again is big light room which will be the kitchen and Mr and Mrs vai Daan's bedroom. There is a very small room for Peter, theit son, and another atic. So that’ our lovely Annexe! Friday, 10 July 1942 ‘Let me continue the story: When we arrived at the warehouse, the Annexe. was fill ofall the boxes that we had stored at the office for the last few months. No one could possibly sleep there unless wwe cleared it up. But Mother and Margot were relly suffering, and they were too tired and unhappy to help. They just lay down, fon their beds, so Father and I did it all. We worked all day, until we \were so tired that we fll into bed too. There was no hot meal, but we didn't care. We worked all the next diy, too, which was _ ‘Tuesday. Bep and Miep took our ration books to buy food. {t-was only on Wednesday that I had time to think about the enormous change in my life. Now I've got a moment to tell you all about it, to realize what has happened, and what is still to happen. Saturday, 11 July 1942 ‘The others can't get used to the big clock outside which tells the time every quarter of an hour. But I like i, specially a night. 1 dont feel ar home here yet. don't hate it though. Ie is like a holiday in a strange litle hotel. My bedroom was very empty Plan of the Secret Annexe,vena bt ve ack wp pion of my frou Sn actors and actesses, I's a lat better now, Margot and Mother are abi beter now too Yesterday Mosher cooked some soup for the frst time, but she went downstairs to talk and forgot all about it! The beans were burnt black, and we couldn't get them out ofthe pot! ase night, the four of us went down to the private office to listen to the news ffom the BBC in England on the radio. I was so frightened that I asked Father to take me back upstairs! thought someone might hear it. We have to be very quiet at night. Friday, 14 August 1942 but not much has happened. July the 13th. The Germans were calling up a lot of people, and they thought it was safer t0 ‘come eatly. Pete, their son, is a shy boy of almost sixteen. I don't sing friend, how, and after three days we began to fel like one big family! The van Daans told us a loe of news, People think we are escaping to Switzerland! Although one oman says that an army lorry took us away in the middle night! And another family say chat they saw all four of us ‘on our bikes early one morning! * Friday, 21 August 1942 [Now our Secret Annexe is really secret! Mr Kugler has buile a bookcase over our lite entrance. It opens like a door tsa beautifil day outside, nice and hot, We can sill enjoy it, lying om a bed in the atic. ~~ aan learning about all my elations. Monday, 21 September 1942 ‘Mrs van Daan is awful. She says that I tlk to0 much, She won't save food ina dish ~ she leaves it in the cooking pot so that it ges spoiled. And she doesn't do-any washing up. Mr Kleiman brings me books to read, and I've begun my schoolwork. I'm working hard at French, and Peter is learning English, Pim — our name for father — wants me to help him with huis Dutch lessons. He makes terrible mistakes! He and I are also ‘working on our family history, and drawing our family tee, 0 1 ‘Mrs van Daan walked into the room just now. I shut the diary auickly “Ame cn jue ook aie “No, Mrs van D: ‘Just the last pag Nant even dhe lt jag Ms van Dan? { nearly died ~ that page was fall of rude things about her! Sunday, 27 September 1942 Mother and had a‘dtcssion’ ody, but [burt nto tears. cant hep it Day is lays nice to me, and he understands me much beter. el srngerr wo eackr other: ‘Mrs van Daan isin a bad mood, and is locking all he things up. She thinks that Tam spoil and aleays ays, If Anne wan ny * daughter ..."I'm glad eh 7‘Tuesday, 29 September 1942 Friday, 9 October 1942 ‘Try to imagine this, We haven't ‘The news is very bad today. The Germans are taking away many to die. Pethaps you dont suffer so much thae way. Tuesday, 20 October 1942 ldn' use the toilet or use water all day. Father suitable pot which we could all use as a toilet! We hhad to sit stil all day and not say a word! That was the most difficule thing for me. * Mr Kleiman’s voice.‘Open up, it’s me!" The door was stuck, anid he couldn't open it We had a good time on Monday. Miep and Jan spent the night with us. We cooked specially for them, and the meal tasted wonderful ‘Thursday, 1 October 1942 Yesterday T was very fightened. At eight o'clock the doorbell suddenly rang, I thought that the Germans were coming to get us. But everybody said that someone only rang for a joke, or that ‘maybe it was the ostman, and I Monday, 9 November 1942 ‘Yesterday was Peter sitteenth birthday He had a game and a cigarette lighter—he doesn smoke much, but the lighter looks good! There was a big surprise too. Mr van Daan heard that the English have reached Tunis, Algiers, Casablanca and Oran, I not the end of the war yet, ut perhaps we can hope forthe end now. Pechaps it will soon be history ‘Well, what about food in the Annexe? A man brings bread -Miep bought new ‘They look like potato bags! * Alarge shop in the cen of Amsterdam 2 3Johannes Kleiman next to the bookcase. every day, a.very nice friend of Me Kleiman’. And we've stored a hundred tins of food here. We can buy ration books on the black market*, and we've also bought three hundred pounds of beans. We decided to move them to the attic, and Peter was given the Job. He succeeded in getting five sacks upstairs, but the sixth sack burst, and a river of beans poured downstairs! T was standing at the bottom of the stairs. Peter couldn't stop laughing when he saw me ‘When people buy and sll things unofficially this clled the “bck marker ‘The black market usually works when fod, clothes or ther things ae hard to find and very expensive 4 {n a sea of brown beans. Unfortunately though, the beans are very small and have disappeared into all the holes. Whenever we go upstairs now, we look fora few more beans! ‘Tuesday, 10 November 1942 Great news! Another person more difficult than seven, an 10 dangerous for Jews now. “We have chosen a dentist call sel. He seems to he nice. Miep knows him, and she will help him to get here. He will have to-sleep in my room though, and Margot will have to move in with our parents. We'll ask him to fill the holes in our teeth! ing to live here. Eight is no ‘Tuesday, 17 November 1942 Mr Dasecl has arrived. Everything went smoothly. He came to the warehouse, and Miep asked him to take off his coat, so that no ohe could see the yellow str. Then she brought him to the private ‘office. He sill had no idea where he was going, or what was going to happen! When she opened our bookcase door, he was $0 surprised! He thought we had left the country. We were waiting ‘around the table, ready to welcome him with a drink. ‘ After lunch he slept for a short tim: joined us-for tea. We gave him the ‘Annexe chat the van Dans had wri GUIDE TO THE SECRET ANNEXE For Jews and other people without homes Open all year round: Near to the centre of Amsterdam, but in a quiet street with trees.Price: Free, people we know to concentration camps, Army cats go round the Food: Low fat, streets day and night to arrest people. They're looking for Jews {tae tn ee bathroom (sory, no fixed bath) and also on some of J they knock on every door, and ask whether any Jews ie tee ‘When they find a Jewish family, they take everybody away. They {even pay money for information. In the evenings, when its dark, 1 often see long lines of innocent people walking on and on. Sick people, old people, children, babies ~ all walking to theit deaths We are very lucky here, I feel bad, sleeping in a warm bed when our dearest friends are suffering to badly. And only because they are Jews. the walls Space for storing things: Plenty. Private radio: For all guests after 6 p.m. But you must never listen to the news on German radio stations, only music Rest hours: From 10 pam. to 7.30 a.m. 10.15 a.m, on Sundays. This is for your safeey. The Management may also ask you to rest at other times too. ‘Use of language: Speak sofly at all times,and not in German. ‘Eseries Every day, ‘Lessons: Offered in English, French, and other subjects. ‘Singing: Only sofly, and after 6 p.m. ‘Mealtimes: Breakfast 9 a.m. (11.30 a.m. on Sundays and holidays). Lunch: light meal from 1.15 pum. to 1.45 pum, Dinner: Sometimes a hot meal, sometimes not. The time of dinner changes because of radio news broadcasis. Bath: The moveable bath can be used by all guess afer 9 a.m. on. Sundays. You may take your bath in the bathroom, kitchen, private ‘office or front offic. Saturday, 28 November 1942 ‘Mr Dussel complains about me all the time. And they sail that he liked children! He complains to Mother, and then shi with me too. [think about it all in bed at night. Am I s6'ba cither laugh or cry, then I -P, wanting to be different, very confusing, The end ‘Tuesday, 22 December 1942 ‘The Annexe vas delighted to hear that we ar all getting an extra ‘quarter pound of butter for Christmas. We are each going to cook something with buter. ‘Mr Dussel says ‘Quiet, quiet!” to me all night, even if just nara over in bed. But he ges up early on Sundays and puts on the light to do his exercises ‘Yes, we all have to be very sensible here and not gee angry! But | would love to lock the door, or hide his clothes, or do something nota ll sensible! ‘Thursday, 19 November 1942 Tes tue, Mr Dusel isa very nice man, He’ willing to share a room with me, although I don' rally like sharing my things with a stranger, But we all have to give up something here.‘If we can save just one of our fiends, we will be doing something to help says Father. He’ right. Mr Dusse has told us lot about the outside world The nevis terrible, The authorities have taken avay so many fiends andWe are sharing our butter a diferent way now: Everyone gets their own piece on their own plate. But it not done right ~ the van Daans make breakfast for everyone, and give themselves the biggest share of the butter. My parents are too frightened to argue, unfortunately. ‘Wednesday, 13 January 1943 ‘Terrible things are happening outside. People are being pulled out of cheit homes and arrested. They leave with only a small bag and a lle money, len from them. Families ate separated, When children come pparents have disappeared. The sons of Christian families in Holland are also sent to Germany Everyone is frightened. Every night, there are air raids, Hundreds of aeroplanes fly over Holland to drop bombs on German cities. Every hour, hundreds or maybe thousands of people are Killed in Russia and Aftica: The whole ‘world is at war. Although the Allies are doing better now, the end of the war is nowhere in sighs. ‘We are luckier than millions of people. Te is quiet and safe here ‘We have money to buy food, We'e selfish ~ we tlk about ‘after ‘Wednesday, 10 March 1943 could hear the guns all ast night. 1 am always frightened of shooting, and I usually climb into Father’s bed to feel safe. The ‘pane are really loud, and you can’ hear your owa Voice. ‘One night, there were strange noises inside the Annexe. Peter ‘went up to the attic and found ~ guess what? An army of Friday, 2 April 1943 min twouble again! 1 as ying in bed and waiting for Father to come and say my prayers with me, Mother came into the rom, and asked gentyAnne, Daddy ist ready? Sha sten rr prayer tocigh” 'No,Mumtn Td. Mother got up. stood by my bed for a moment, then slowly walked to the door Suddenly she tuned round, and her face was flo pain. She maid dont wan tobe angry with you. 1 cant snake you love me!’ A few ears fll down her cheeks as she went out ofthe door. iy sil. new tate was rat ay thas, but I couldn’ give Ter any other acer {Savery vorey for he. She posed re 07 from her with hex mia jokes. She cried for haf the night, and didnt sleep Father does shoes — no coats or socks. There is no one to help them. They are slays hungry, and ask people on the streets for bread. I could tell ‘you more about the suffering t ‘war has boughs, ‘would make me too sad. All we can do is to wait patiently Saturday, 27 February 1943 Pim thinks here will be an invasion by the Allies at any time now. Churchill was seriously ill, but now he’ gesting better. * Winston Church who led the Bish Government during World War I 19Jook at me, but I know what he is thinkin ‘unkind? How dare you make your mother s0 sad?” But [can't spologic. ‘Tuesday, 27 April 1943 Saturday, 1 May 1943 YYenerdsy was Dusslt birthday. He pretended that he wasn't interned, bur wien Miep arrived with a lange bag. of presents ffom ht fiends, he was a excited sa child! He had chocolat, shared everything with him, Sunday, 13 June 1943 Father wrote something for my bitthdzy ~its very funny! Tes about ‘me, and my hard lf in the Annexe, under the authority of paren who are always telling me what to do! I had some lovely presen to, specially 2 big book of Greek and Roman stories, and sweet ffom everyone — people gave me some fom the last oftheir stores. ‘Tuesday, 15 June 1943 Next month we have to give back our radio to the authorities Its cheerful. Things must get bette Friday, 16 July 1943 ‘There was a break-in lst night, a real one! This morning, Pete? went down to the warehouse and saw that the doors were open fon to the set. We stayed quiet, and dida't ute any water or do a noise. We waited nti eleven-thiry when Mr ‘upstairs, He old us that burglar had broken in and woney Luckily, they didn't find much s0 they soon went ext door to look there. “The Allis are arriving in Sicily! ‘Monday, 19 July 1943, ‘Alot of bombs fell on North Amsterdam on Sunday. Whole streets ‘went in the raid, and they can't even dig out all the bodies yet. ‘They've already counted wo hundred people dead, and many more are hurt. The hospital are fall. atMonday, 26 July 1943 ‘There was a terrible bombing raid yesterday. It started at about ‘wo-thirty in the afiernoon, Margot and I were upstairs, but the guns were so loud that we went down again. The house shook, and the bombs kept on filling. I was holding my ‘escape bag’. But ‘walking on the streets is as dangerous as an air raid on the Annexe, | know that I can't really leave. After half an hour the planes flew- away, and the smell of fire was everywhere. There was thick smoke lover the city like fog. Later, after dinner, there was another raid. The bombs came down again like rain, and we heard from British repores chat Schiphol Airport was bombed. We could hear the noise of the vvery frightened. My legs were still planes all the time;and we shaking when [ay in ‘At midnight, more asleep in my own bed But at seven o'clock in the morning we heard some wonderful news about Italy! Mussolini has gone, and the King of Italy is leading the government there now. ‘Tuesday, 3 Auigust 1943 ‘We just had a third air raid. am trying to be brave. Mrs van Daan ‘used to siy,‘Let them fll!” Now she is the most cowardly of us all ‘She was Shaking like a leaf this morning, and even burst into teats. Our bodies ate very stiff now. We stopped our exercise programme a long time ago. hs * laughing!” I don’t answer the voice, but just lie down on the sofa. Friday, 10 September 1943 Every time I write fo you, something special has happened. asant. But this time, its wonderful! The news was aly out of the wat! The British are now in jermans are in North Italy. ‘Bur there is some very bad news too. Mr Kleiman is going to have a very difficult operation on his stomach, and-he'l-have to stay in hospital for at least four weeks. He's so brave! He's always cheerful and smiling, although he's usually in pain. Friday, 29 October 1943 Me Kleiman is out of hospital now, but his stomach i til bad. He had to go home again today because he wasn't well . ‘Me van Daan hs sold his wife’ best winter coat. She wanted to keep the money to buy new clothes afer the war. Mr van Daan ‘ould not make her understand that the money has tobe used for the Annexe. They shouted and screamed at each other — it was terrible. Tm OK, but I'm not hungry at the moment. People s1j,'You look avwfl, Anne!” Sundays are specially bad. It is deathly quiet then. I feel as though I'am being pulled down into hell. Iam a ‘wings who cant escape. A voice inside me cries, “Let sit t0 go into the fresh air. 1 want to hear peopleWednesday, 3 November 1943 ‘We've decided to start our fire at seven-thirty on Sunday ‘mornings, instead of five-thirty. I think its dangerous. The neighbours may see the smoke, and whae will they think? The curtains are a problem too. They cover the windows completely, bat sometimes someone here will decide to take @ litle look outside. Everyone complains, but the answer is, ‘Oh, nobody will notice! That’ how things tart to get dangerous. We are not quarrelling so much. Only Dussel and the van Daans are enerhies at the moment, Dustel talks about Mrs van Daan as ‘that stupid cow’, and she calls him ‘an old woman'! Monday evening, 8 November 1943 ‘We all have diferent moods here, up and down. And my mood is sad now. Miep says that we are peacefil here. But circle of blue sky: We eight people in the Annexe but all around us ate dark clouds and danger. The circle is getting. smaller, and the darkness closer. If we could fly up into that blue sky, into heaven ... Oh circle, open wide and let us out! Sunday, 2 January 1944 ‘This morning I ead tough some ofthe old pages it my diary. vas very ashamed when I saw what I had written about Mosher. Why did [fel so angry then? Why di I hate her so moc? Te was tre that she didnt understand me. But! didnt understand her ether. 1m older and wiser now, and Mothers not so nervous We ty not to aquarel with each other But I conve her ike acid any more ‘Thursday, 6 January 1944 1 realized what’ wrong with Mother. She says that she sees us rote as her friends, not her daughters. Thats nice, but a fiend is not the same asa mother. T think the changes in my body are wonder, Whenever [have sy period (three times now), its like a sweet secret inside me. “There is pain,and mess, but [look forward to it again. ‘That night in bed I cried and cried. Must I ask Peter to be my friend? I don’t love him, but I do need him. Ifthe van Daans had a daughter, it would be just the same with her-So I've décided to visit Peter more often, and to make him talk to me. ‘Wednesday, 12 January 1944 Tm crazy about dance at the moment! I practise my steps every ‘evening, and I've made myselfa modem dance dress from Mother's clothes. I tried to turn my tennis shoes into dance shoes, but it didn''work. All the exercise is helping — I'm not neatly so stifnow! * Saturday, 15 January 1944 won't tell you all the details of our quarrels in the Annexe. But \we are not sharing our food in the same way now — we've got our ‘own stores of meat and oil, and we even cook our own potatoes. Mother made a wish,‘I don't want to see Mr van Daan’ face for two whole weeks! Unfortunately, her wish is not likely to come 25Edith Frank, May 1935. true. Does everyone who shares a house become like this? Or are ‘we just unlucky? ‘Thursday, 3 February 1944 Everybody is thinking about the Allied invasion! What will happen to us if the British invade Holland. The Germans say that they will let the water from the sea into the counery.* Each person has his or her own idea. “Well have to walk through the water! “Don't be silly! We'll have to try and Swim, We'll swim underwater, nd then nobody will see that we aré Jews!" ‘make everybody leave Amsterdam? “We'll leave the city with all the other people’ “No, we mustn't go outside! The Germans will send everyone to die in Germany! “A right, we'll say here. LetS ask Miep for some extra pounds of rice. That's it? Our stores ate still quite good. But we do have to feed the people in the office too, ‘Let’ make little bags for our money that we can hide in our clothes if we have to leave here? = * Holland is very fat, and the water early controlled. Once, most ofthe land was nately under wate.‘And so it goes on all day: That’ all hear ~ imvai very calm about it.I don't care now ‘on with my work and in the end. have become my feiends? why he holds Mouschi the eat so Friday, 18 February 1944 so that [can see him. I have and life here is better. like me going up there. She says that She always looks at me oddly wl Peters room. When I come down again, she asks me where I've been. 28Peter says ~ if no one else can heat ce you later! hhe does love me! And its so good to Wednesday, 23 February 1944 him ~ ‘Goodbye, Ann ‘Ob, 'm so happy! talk to him, ‘The weather is wonderful, and I feel better. Almost every ‘morning, [go up to the attic for some fresh air ~ we can open the ‘window there and look out. This morning, Peter was up there too, Friday, 10 March 1944 We have more troubles now: Miep is ill, and Mr Kleiman is stil away from work with his bad stomach. Bep is trying to do ‘everything on her own. ‘Last night, somebody knock ie wall next door while we were having dinner. We were ing. ‘The police have taken Mr M. away. He's the man who sells us potatoes, butter and jam on the black market. Its terrible for him * and also for us. He has five young children and another baby coming, ‘world Ie will help us in all our troubles. ‘Sunday, 27 February 1944 I think about Peter from morning to night. 1 dream about him, and see his face when I wake up. [feel that Peter and I are not really very different, although we sccm to be on the outside, We both have song feelings inside, Which are dificult to control. Neither of us fels that we have ‘other. His mother isn serious; ine interested in my ie but she doesn't understand me at al. ‘Tuesday, 14 March 1944 I’m sitting at the van Daan’ table with a handkerchief over my ‘mouth. Why? Let me start at the beginning. They've arresed the people who bring ous ickets, so we don't have any fats or oils. Miep and Mr Kleiman are ill again, and Bep can't go shopping for us.The food is awful. Lunch today is potatoes and some very old vegetables out of bottles. They smell terrible, is why I have the handkerchief! We've got to eat them too ~ I feel sick when I think about it! Half the potatoes have gone bad, and ‘we have to throw them away, Iflife here was pleasant, the food would not matter so much, But i the fourth year ofthe war, and we are all in bad moods. Saturday, 4 March 1944 ‘Ths ses. the fd Some fox tone. tht wasnt boring. I ‘was because of Peter. I joined the French lesson that Father was tgiving him. I was in heaven, sitting on Father’ chai, close to. Peter. ‘Afterwards, we talked cogether until Ianch-time. Whenever I 30 aLSaturday, 18 March 1944» tov of twelve. But instead ofa, hey send them out of the room and the children have to try and find ‘Then, late, the parents think that 1 of my frends told me ‘woman do together: oud of myselfl She aso told me that babies with Peter sat there dreaming with my eyes closed, and it was ‘wonderful ‘Sunday, 19 March 1944 ‘Yesterday was a very important day for me. At five o'clock I put, fon the potatoes to cook, and Mother gave me some sausage £0 give to Peter. But he wouldn't take the sausage, and I thoughe it was because of the awful quarrel that we had recenty. Suddenly, my eyes filled with tears. I took the plate back to Mother and, ‘went into the toilet (0 ry. 1 decided to talk to Peter, After the washing up, I went to his oom. We stood by the open window as it grew dark ~ its much 22 -Miep Gies ond Bep Voskui. Amsterdam, 1945.otra meses sausage because of our look too greedy! Then ‘good; it was the most Annexe. ‘We talked about the year 1942, and how different we are now. 4 noisy, annoying gid at first! choughe chat told him that we are like two sides of the ‘He thought that and quiet. I said chat [ understand why he goes away to be alone sometimes. And that [like to help him when he argues with his parents, aay lp mee si eee “Because youte days chee That vt the nice thing he will evening. He mut love me oa end, end rtf apd happy Stat. — ‘Wednesday, 22 March 1944 ‘Things ae geting more and more wonderfl here. I think that true love may be happening in the Annexe! Everyone has made jokes about us, saying chat we might get macried if we are all in enough Pethaps those jokes aren so silly at all Peter loves me too, but I don't know in what want to change anything that I said, 34 ‘Thursday, 23 March 1944 ‘Our black market ration book men are out of prison now, things are better here : ‘Yesterday a plane crashed quite neat us, on top of a school Luckily there were no children inside. There was a small ‘ovo people were killed. The men inside the plane were abl cout in time, but the Germans shor them immediate people were so angry ~ it was a cowardly, horrible thing to do! We = the ladies of the Annexe — were very Sight T hate the sound of guns. ‘Tuesday, 28 March 1944 Mother is trying to ime going up to Peters room. She says bat we have to fight against them, and in the end they will make everything more beautiful. When he rests his head on his arms and quite how to behave, he's sweet!” ‘Wednesday, 29 March 1944 [Mr Bolkestein, from the Government, was speaking on the Dutch 35| eg RETSE Divo. Fownamanebsooemy synergies a after the war they wanted ‘war ~ they would be an tus, the Jews who were hiding, ‘we talked about. Bur although I tell you a , you still know very little about us. For ‘example, how ffightened the women are during the air raids. Last ‘Sunday, 350 British planes dropped their bombs on Ijmuiden, so that the houses shook like grass in the wind. Or about the awful yould take me all day 1. vegetables and all, sick, since their so many thieves around that you ask what has happened t0 the Dutch ~ why are they stealing so much? Little children, eight- and cleven-year-olds, break the windows of people’s homes and steal whatever they can. People don't dare to leave the house even for five minutes, ing may be gone when d Everyone's hungry. A week’ food ration does days. We're waiting for the Allied invasion, but everyone wears old clothes and repair shoes, and ifyou give your shoes to 2shoemender, you may never see them again, *}Friday, 31 March 1944 most people have fad nothing to for a month now. It sounds awful, doesn’t it? But wwe ate hopefil about the Russians, who are doing well They've reached Polind now, and the Prut River in Romania, They're Close to Odes too. “The German Army bas invaded Hungary. A milion Jews sil lve there there no hope for them nove. Nothing special is happening here. Today is Mr van Dan's bie. He received sever presents aid cake: The cake wasn't peter, because we cant buy the right things to make twit, bot it tasted wonderfull anyway! People are not saying so mach about Peter and me now We'e very good frends We spend alot of time together, and we talk bout anything and everything. I couldn lk to other boys Ike this, We even talked about periods. He thinks that women are ‘Mrs van Daan, Mr van Daan and Vicor Kugler left. Amsterdam, 1941. strong enough to lose the blood, and that Iam too. T wonder why he thinks that? + better now, much better. God has not left me, ‘Monday, 3 April 1944 1T'm going to describe our food rations, Food is @ dificult and important problem not only for us in the Annexe, but for everyone in Holland, all of Europe and even farther away. We've lived here for twenty-one months, and often at any one time there was only one kind of food to eat. For example, one kind of vegetable or salad. We would eat it with potatoes, in every possible way that we could thi f ‘We have potatoes, and _ hhave some packets and” , le bit more interesting. But is beans with everything, even in the bread. ‘The most exciting moment is when we sausage once a week, and put some jam on of course! But we're still alive, and much of the tastes good too, a thin piece of ‘Wednesday, § April 1944 For a long time now, 1 ha schoolwork. The end of the war isn't over by September, I won! ‘want to be two years behind, Peter filled my days, nothing but Pet thoughts, until Saturday night when I to school, since I don’t fothing but dreams and 39floor in my nightdress and said my prayers.‘Then I just lay down fn the floor and cried. But I knew I had to fighe against it and, {inally, when I climbed back into bed atten o'clock, the suffering. ‘And now it really over, I've realized that fk: I want to make something of my life. I wa a really good writer. newspapers, | can always write for myself ‘Mother, Mrs van Daan, and all the other women who their work andave then Torgéten. T need more than just a husband and children! 1 want to be wsefil, and to bring enjoyment co all people, even those that I've never met. I want to {0 on living afr my death! tefl t9 God for my writing. So T'l go on tying, and willbe al ight, because I'm not going to give upl ‘Tuesday, 11 April, 1944 I don’t know where to start ~ so much has happened. Thursday, ‘when I svroteto you, everything was as usual Friday and Saturday 00, Then.on Sunday evening at nine-thit, Peter knocked at our door. He asked Father to come upstairs and help him with some English words. But I did't believe him “That's strange’ Isai to Margot.‘ think we've got burglars! T was right. They ere breaking into the warehouse at that ‘moment. Father, Mr van Daan and Peter went downstairs 28 ‘quickly as posible. Margot, Mother, Mrs van Daan and I waited. Four fightened women need to talk, so thats what we did ‘Then we heard a loud noise, but nobody came back until ten o'clock Anne, Amsterdam, 1941,and get upstairs quietly! The police willbe heres "The men went back d had happened. Buc ten mina that burglars broke down the warehouse do Daan had shouted ‘Police!"They tried to put the burglars kicked it down again. Then a man and a woman this was Mr van Hoeven, the man who brings us potatoes, and. wife) ‘We waited and waited in the dark until after eleven “Then there was more noise downtais, and finally someone tried ‘to move the bookcase. We were so frightened. I houghe the police ‘were going to take us away: But then the person went away, and ‘quiet. We had to stay quiet all night too, and use a toilet. We tried to sleep on the foor = "We should hide the radio!"said Mrs van Daan, “If they find us, it doesn't matter if they find the radio too!) answered Mr van Daan, “Then they'll find Ann sy father. (Ob, not my diary! go too! Bur fortunately, nothing was done, ‘At seven, we rang Me Kleiman, an at hast Jan and Miep arrived. ‘They had to go off again to the police to inform them about the tidy up the house and get lly mess! We were in terrible danger that night, Just think, the police swere by the bookcase, but they didn’ find us. God was truly “That’ what our prayer is now, From now on, we must be more careful too. Dussel will do his work in the bathroom, and Peter will walk round the howe ity and nine-thisty every evening. So 's window was open, so he must keep hha reminded us that we are Jews, and that we must live like Prisoners. We must forget our personal feelings and be brave and strong. One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews! Who has made like this? Who fas separated us fiom all the other people? God has made us like this, but God will it us Up again, Pethaps afterwards, if there are any Jews lef, our suffering will teach people something, Perhaps they will learn this is why we have to suffer, We st English — we will always be Jews a: well. Be brave! There will be a way out. God has always looked afer ts, All through history, Jews have had co suffer, but there are still Jews, and the sulfering has made ue stronger. [thought chat I was going to die that night. I waited for death like a soldier. But now that I'm stil alive want to stay in Hollind after the war, I love the Dutch, I love this country, [ love the language. I want to work here God lets me liv, I will do more than Mother ever did. want iy voice to be heard! I'll go out into the world and work forall ‘human beings! ‘Sunday, 16 April 1944 Remember yesterday’ date, because it was special for me. When itl gets her firs kiss, it’ always an important date. Last night I was sitting with Peter on his sfi-bed, and he soon put his arm around me.I put my arm round him too, and we sat very close. We've st like this before, but never as close as we were otAt eightthire I stood up and went to the window, where we always say goodbye. I vas sillAnne number two. He came ove to sme, and I thtew my arms around his neck and kived him on his Was 2 great shock to my heart. The gentle Anne doesn't appear very often, and she's not going to go away quickly. ‘Oh Peter, what have you done to me? What do you want from me? ie wanted to marry me, whit would I ouldn't matty him. Peter isnt strong enough 25 a person, a child. ‘Tuesday, 2 May 1944 ‘On Saturday night [ asked Peter whether I should tell Father about us. He thinks that I should. 1 was. sensible As soon as | came downstairs, F went with Father to get some water, ‘other boys and gids, and you slferent things. But here, you Father says tha I shouldn't go upstairs so ofen, but I still want to.¥es,I'm going! ‘Wednesday, 3 May 1944 For the last wo weeks, we've been eating lunch at cleven-thirty ‘on Saturdays. From tomorrow, itl be like that every day Thae will be one meal less each day. tes sill very hard to get vegetables. This afternoon we ate some bad cooked lettuce. Add some bad potatoes, and you have a meal fine enough fora king! a T haven't had my period for more than two months, but it finally sareed ast Sunday. Although it’ a trouble and a mes, Cm. lad.You can imagine we often sy,'Why are there wars? Why, ob. ‘why, can’ people live together peacefilly?” No one can give a rally good answer. Digger and beste aeroplanes and bombs, 2 building new houses? Why do governim ‘day for war, when they spend nothing on met Is not only governments who make war. No, the common ‘man i guiley too! We give our governments the authority to do it. ‘There’ something in people that makes them murder and kill. — ‘Unles all human beings change, chere will still be was Tm often sad here, but {stil se our life in the Secret Annexe 26 an adventure, Its dangerous but exciting. 've decided that I want to live a differen kind of lf, not like other girls, and that I won't be an ordinary housewife. Living here is an interesting beginning to my life, and thats why I laugh at the amusing side of it, even ‘when its dangerous, Tm young, and I'm strong, happy and cheerfl growing up mote every day and that the end of the avy. Nature is still beautiful, andthe people around me are good. Every day, I think what an interesting adventure this is! So why be sad or frightened? 2 | Saturday, 6 May 1944 {tis bard to believe it when Jan, Mr Kugler and Mr Kleiman tell tus about the prices of food in the outside world. Everything is $0 expensive, and people buy and sell on the black market. One person can sell you litle bit of wool, another some ration books, and another some cheese. Stealing and murder happen every day. 46 Even the police and the night watchmen are doing it, Everyone ‘wants food to put in their stomachs, and they can't earn enough ‘money to est Monday, 8 May 1944 Have [ ever told you anything about my family hnave, so let me begin. Father was born in Frankfurt: wil be very usefl! Friday, 19 May 1944 | Tele awfal yesterday. I was sick, and had a headache. I'm feeling beter today. I'm very hungry, but I won't eat the beans that wee having for dinner. Everything is going fine between Peter and me, We kiss eich. goodnight every evening, and he always asks for another to know that somebody loves him!colder, though. Peter’ a lovely boy, but I've closed the door to the ‘Anne deep inside. fhe wants to find her again, he'll have to break down the door ‘Monday, 22 May 1944 ‘We've heard something very sad and frightening. It seems that a Jot of people are thinking differently about us Jews now. People ae against us who were once totally on our side. Some Christian ~the Jews are tling the authorces about their helpers, and then thoie people are arrested. And then, of course, the punishment that they get are terrible Ye, its all tae, Bat they should ask themaelves this if Chrsiane wer in our place, would they behave differenly? Could anyone, Jew or Christian, say silent whea the Germans are trying to make them tlk? Everyone knows that its almost imposible, so why do they ask us, the Jews, to do something impossible? have only one hops tat the Dutch will not be agains ws for “rong. They should remeber again in their hears whats righ, because this isn’ right atl Thursday, 25 May 1944 Something happens every day now. This morning they arrested Mr van Hoeven, thé man who brings the potatoes. He was helping owo Jews, who were hiding in his house, The world is ‘turned upside down, The best people are in concentration camps and prisons, while the worst decide to put them there. Its terrible for Mr van Hoeven, and for those poor Jews. Ics also very difficult for us. Bep can’t possibly carry all those heavy potatoes, so we'll 48 hhave to eat less of them. Mother says that we won't et breakfast; lunch will be bread and something simple; and dinner will be potatoes. If possible, we'll eat vegetables or lettuces oace or twice 2 week. That’ all there is, Monday, 5 June 1944 ‘There are new problems in the Annexe now. There's a quarrel berween Dussel and the Franks. We can't agree how to share out the butter. = ‘Then the van Daans don't agree that we should rake a cake for ‘Mr Kugler’ birthday when we can’t have one ourselves. Ie all very ily. Mood upstairs bad. Mrs van Daan has 2 cold. ‘The weather is awful. The Allies are bombing the Pas de Calais and the west coast of France. = No one is buying American dollars siow, and they” aren't interested in gold either. We shall soon come to the bottom of our black money-box. How will we have enough money ¢o live next month? = = ‘Tuesday, 6 June 1944 “This is D-Day’ the BBC said on the radio at twelve ‘'clock."This is the day’ The invasion has begun! ‘The German news says that British soldiers have arrived on the, coast of France, and are fighting the Germans there. ‘At one o'clock the BBC said that 11,000 planes are flying in to hhelp the invasion, They're carrying soldiers, or on bombing raids. 4,000 boats are arriving on the coast between Cherbourg and Le 1n armies are already fighting there. is teally the beginning of the end of theNow that the invasion has started, I feel that friends are coming! Maybe, Margot says, I can even go back to school in September or October! Friday, 9 June 1944 Great news of che invasion! The Allies have taken Bayeux, village 1 coast of France. They're now fighting for the town of Tuesday, 13 June 1944 cant go up to his room for a day or two, I want him badly again, kind and good, but in some wi 4 person, He doesn! 50 haven't been outside for so Long chat everything in the natural ‘world seems wonderful to me nove I remember a time when T didn't notice the blue sky, or the flowers, o hear the song of the binds. All chat has changed. When I can, | ery to watch the moon, fo the dark, rainy sky through our windows, And when I look at the moon and the stars, I really do feel calm and the best medicine, and I am stronger afterwards ly have to try and look through dusty ndows. curtains and very direy ‘Tuesday, 27 June 1944 ‘The mood has changed, and everything outside is going very wel, The Allies have won Cherbourg, Vitebsk and Zhlobin, In the three weeks there have been rain and storms every “Americans have fought hard, Il be on 27 July? How far do you think Saturday, 15 July 1944 | know that { won Peter as a friend, not the other wy round. | ‘was the one who tried to make it work. And I made a picture of We talked about very as deep in my hes ly shy, or is there 5Bur I made one big mistake. T wanted him and now we can‘ be friends any other way. And ‘me too tightly. can't see how to change this now. Friday, 21 July 1944 ‘Now at las, chings are going well! Great news! Somebody tried to ki die was actually a German army official who tried to do itt This shows us that many of the German soldiers have had ‘enough of the war too, and would like to end it ‘Tuesday, 1 August 1944 T'm two people, really, as T've often told you. One side of me is cheerful and amusing, and enjoys a kiss or a rude joke. This is the Anne that people know, and they will be amused by me for an afternoon, but after that they've had enough of me for a ‘month! No one knows the other side, the better side of Anne. I's even for fifteen minutes, she won't sp ‘number one to talk, Then?before I realiz again, So Anne never comes out in front of other people, always there when T' ange, and I'm trying hard, bi‘what I would like to be, and what I could be if -..if only there ‘were no other people in the world, + ANNE'S DIARY ENDS HERE. AFTERWORD On the morning of 4 August 1944, a car arrived at 263 ‘Annexe, German and (Thy policed iol: j Rapirgsnd Klein oogeycbon Amsterdam. On 11 September 1944 they were sent to a concentration camp in Amersfoot, ako in Holland, Because Kleiman was ill, he was allowed to go free on 18 September. He lived in Amsterdam until he died in 1959, Kugler later escaped, and he went to live in Canada, where he died in 1989. Bep’ real name was Elisabeth Voskuijl Wijk, and she died ir ‘Amsterdam in 1983, Miep Santrouschite Gies is sil living in Amsterdam, but her ‘husband Jan died in 1993. ‘The eight people from the Annexe were frst taken to a prison, jn Amsterdam. Then they were sent to Auschwitz, the ‘concentration camp in Poland. Ie seems that Mr van Daan died by gas at Auschwite, and his ‘wife was taken to several more concentration camps. She died in a 54 ee chai concentration camp, though nobody knows exactly how. On. 16 January 1945, Peter van Daan had to go on the terrible * prisoners’ walk from Auschwitz to Mauthausen in Austria, where he died on 5 May 1945. He died only three diys before the Allies got to the camp, Albert Dussel died on 20 December 1944 in the Neuen Gamme concentration camp. ‘Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hanover, in Germany. A terrible illness attacked the prisoners there. They both died in the ‘winter of 1944-5. Anne must have died in late February or early ‘March. All the bodies ofthe prisoners were thrown together. The British army arrived at the camp on 12 April 1945. ‘Otto Frank was the only one of the eight still alive. After, Russian soldiers reached Auschwitz, he was finally taken back to ‘Amsterdam. In 1953, he moved to Switzerland, married again, and lived there until his death in 1980. He spent the rest of his life trying to share the message of his daughter’ diary with the rest of the world.EXERCISES Vocabulary Work ‘Check each Dictionary Word and make sure that you know what it 1 Wie sentences using the following pars of words cattle , 3 Some words in this book are used mostly in wartime. Write a ‘sentence for each one, showing that you understand the meaning. arald ‘ «facts about the past? ‘Comprehension Look in the diary to find the answers to these questions. On questions 1-8 use the dates to hep you: June 1942 1 Why did the Frank family move rom Germany to Helland? 2 When and in what way did things get worse for therm in Holland? ‘From July-November 1942 {3 Where did they decise to hide? 4 Wry wast called ‘The Secret Annexe’? 5 Who hid there? - uy 1943 z 6 What dangerous things were happening on the streets of ‘Amsterdam? 7 What dangerous thing happened in he Annexe? February and June 1944 {8 What cid people think would happen soon in the war? tein the Annexe 9 Describe dltfrent ways in which the Frank family heard news trom the outside world, : 10 Where ois their food come from? ‘11 What ad Anne want todo with her life when she grew up? 12 When and how did their if in the Secret Annexe end? Discussion oe 1 What problems were there for the eight people who were trying to live together? How would you ty to solve them? 37