Lately i ve beenthinking about Ann Frank, anyone else?

[Bilboard]

Just that really, with the current clima i ve been thinking about them a lot. I remember reading her diary years ago. Her family along with another family had to live in hiding from the Nazis. They all( i think 7) lived in an attic, about 40sqm, for two years.
My thoughts keep going back to them, how did they manage? I definitly need to re read the book.
Anyone else?

[NewName54321]

Although a name we associate with events a long time ago, I always find it shocking that she was younger than the Queen, and could still be alive today had she survived. I remember watching her father on Blue Peter in the 1970s. It's still out there on YouTube if you search for it.

[Pelleas]

I have often wondered what else Anne would have written had she survived.

[midnightstar66]

@Pelleas thanks, tracked it down on YouTube will watch with DD later

[BarefootHippieChick]

I recently read the book for the first time as bought it for dd for school history lessons. It's an amazing book and the way it just ends is heartwrenching.

[Bigfishylittlefishy]

Loved reading AF as a child, she inspired me to write my own childhood diaries. Such a stunning writer, who also acknowledged herself she was more fortunate than others. I think we can read it and feel inspired by it, whilst also realising we are far more privilege (obviously).

[Bigfishylittlefishy]

*privileged.

[Bilboard]

Thank you for suggestions, links and book recomendations, really need to get back into reading :0)

[ssd]

We visited her house in Amsterdam. Walking up the narrow wooden staircase is chilling, thinking how loud the nazi's heavy jack boats must have sounded up there in the attic. It's truly terrifying.
Thought provoking thread.

[LittleCabbage]

From the extract linked to above by ViciousJackdaw. (Thank you, that was extremely interesting).

It is particularly tragic how close Anne and her sister were to being liberated. I will definitely re-read her diary with my children once they are old enough.

[ssd]

Dhs dad was in the army that liberated Belsen. He said you could smell it 5 miles away. Horrendous, doesn't bare thinking about.

[KonTikki]

I remember reading about a stage production of Anne Frank where the young actress playing her was pretty awful.
So much so that when the Germans came on stage searching for her, someone in the audience shouted "she's in the attic" !

Sorry - I'll get my coat 🤢

[Vitaceae]

I've also been thinking about Anne Frank and her family recently. I read her diary when I was around 12 or 13, remember watching her father on Blue Peter too, and have visited the house where they hid in Amsterdam.

I suppose lockdown has led into thoughts of how other people have struggled in the past, through wars, or disease etc and how, although life is very different for us at the moment, it isn't anywhere near as bad for us as it was for them.

I've been thinking about rereading her diary. I read The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es recently and that made me think about how Anne Frank's life could have turned out differently. There is a small connection between the two books in that someone, as an adult, recalled having been in the same class at school with Anne Frank 😢