Knowing her fate and that of the rest of the family was bleak, they hid there for two years until, on August 4th, 1944, she and her family were discovered, having been betrayed to the Nazis. They went into hiding shortly after Anne’s sister Margot was called to report to a concentration camp.
Anne Frank and her family, along with another family and a dentist, occupied the “secret annex” in a separate part of an office building her father worked in. Most of us who came up through school know the basic story. One small voice who illustrates a daily life cut short, who explains the views and the growth of a mind not allowed to see adulthood, one who comes forward to speak for those who are no longer among us. Instead, we have one representative for those six million. Judging by the Frank pages, that’s true even if the writer is valued more for contributing an historical artifact than for her creative output, and even if she was pubescent.To consider the lives lost, the futures thrown into fires, the endless suffering, and the human cost of the atrocity now called “ The Holocaust” is more than the human mind could ever process or confront. Seuss, a posthumous book from Maurice Sendak-the list is quite long. The publication of the new pages shows that yet again, when it comes to beloved writers, mere existence trumps privacy: Harper Lee’s half-finished manuscript, everything Frankz Kafka wrote, Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, an unfinished story from Dr.
Research into all marginalia of Frank’s writing may indeed be justified, but public consumption is another matter. …From an academic point of view, making them accessible is just as much a matter of course as revealing a hidden image beneath a painting by Rembrandt.” (The Anne Frank House declined to comment further.) “Research into Anne Frank’s qualities as a writer means research into the process of deliberation and of writing and deleting, as this can be deduced from her diary texts. “The diary of Anne Frank is a world heritage object with great historical value, and this justifies research into it,” the museum writes on its site. So The Diary of a Young Girl is already different from the version Frank intended the world to see. Still, does the public have a right to read the “dirty jokes” a teenage girl makes to herself in private? Among other things, Frank’s father left out some passages about his daughter’s emerging sexual curiosity. The version readers know today was published by her father after the war was over and Frank had died it’s an edited combination of the original and revised diaries. After she heard a Dutch politician mention on the radio that he wanted to collect firsthand accounts of the German occupation, Frank started rewriting and editing her diary for future publication. At 13, before her family went into hiding, Frank started keeping a diary. It’s worth remembering that the diary most people know wasn’t a true private diary. The text has “five crossed-out phrases, four ‘dirty’ jokes, and 33 lines about sex education and prostitution,” according to the museum site, and is now available in Dutch (pdf). In her original diary, Frank had covered up the two pages with brown paper researchers were recently able to decipher those pages for the first time without damaging them.
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