Books Read By Anne Frank

2 outta 5 Kyians can't read, according to a 1999 Paul Patton Task Force commission report.

“44% of Kentuckians struggle with minimal literacy skills, and 37% of the Kentuckians age 25 and older do not have a high school diploma.” http://www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/rr296.pdf

But hey, Kentucky, don't lose heart. Just look at the good side. If 44% of Kentuckians CAN'T read, then that means that 56% of Kentuckians CAN read, so let's look at the positive side.

Here's Wendy, a Kentuckian, from Letcher County, who I met the other day: 

Many Kentuckians, especially the backwards, racist, and illiterate, love to fuck up their words as bad as they possibly can. “Taters” isn't only stupid... it's childish. Plus, potatoes aren't that great. Potatoes were responsible for killing off a huge Irish population... sure it's one of the world's main basic food staples, but rice, pork, beef, wheat, sugar, etc., are so much more important, and more delicious. Potatoes are bland. They gotta be spiced up just to be edible. Fuck'n tubers.

Kentucky needs more Anne Franks. Less drug-addled and stupid STD-laden "Wendys", and more Anne Franks. Ashley Judd said that the success or the decline of Kentucky will be because of Kentucky's women... and if one can convince a Kentucky woman of anything, then they have changed a nation. Every single woman represents a nation, and so, therefore, having women who are more politically conscious, who care about the poor, about social problems needing to be solved, who are smart, wise, engineers... that's the direction of where the new Kentucky woman should head towards. Being louder, more obnoxious, more stupid... that'll crash the State.

While 40% of Kentuckians can't read, with many more who not only don't give a fuck about reading, or education, or doing anything right or proper, Anne Frank, by the time she was 15—since she was taken by the "super smart" Nazis and gassed to death—had read at least 26 major, intelligent, dense books, which included history, literature, genealogical charts, psychology, plays, a young people's annual, the Bible, Greek myths, Dutch legends, etc., among other topics.

History was Anne M. Frank's favorite subject to read about. Her FAVORITE.

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Even though Anne Frank was living in hiding during the Nazi oppression of the Netherlands, her list of hobbies should put every single stupid Kentucky woman to shame. Her April 6, 1944 diary entry listed her list of hobbies:

1 – Writing. (“but I don't really think of that as a hobby”).

2 – Genealogical Charts. “I'm looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. I've made great progress with many of them, because for a long time I've been taking notes while reading biographies or history books. I even copy out many of the passages on history.”

3 – History. “I enjoy all my other school subjects, but history's my favorite!”

4 – Greek and Roman mythology. “Number four is Greek and Roman mythology. I have various books on this subject too. I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus. I have the wives of Hercules, etc., etc., down pat.”

“My other hobbies are

5 – Movie Stars.

6 – Family Photographs.

7 – I'm crazy about Reading and Books.”

“I adore...

8 —the History of the Arts, especially when it concerns writers, poets and painters; musicians may come later.”

“I loathe algebra, geometry and arithmetic.”

~Anne M. Frank, April 6, 1944

History was Anne M. Frank's favorite subject to read about. Her FAVORITE.

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A curriculum for Kentucky students would do well with just an “Anne Frank” introduction to the world. Fuck a fascist. Fuck all the fascists.

List of Books read by Anne Frank:

1 - *Ammers-Kuller, Jo van. Heeren, knechten, en vrouwen (Gentlemen, Servants, and Women): J.M. Meulenhoff, 1934-35. (Referred to by Anne as Heeren, vrouwen, en knechten. Later Heeren becomes vol. 1 of The Tavelincks: The History of Amsterdam's Governing Families in the Stressful Years 1778 to 1813. Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, 1942. This is a book that was specifically forbidden from Anne Frank.)

2 - Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband (June 30, 1944). A book written in English that Anne Frank was reading, “with the aid of a dictionary”. Ideal Husband. (June 30, 1944). “Bad weather, or bad weather at a stretch to the thirtieth of June.” (written in English in original diary). “Isn't that well said! Oh yes, I have a smattering of English already, just to show that I can, I'm reading An Ideal Husband with the aid of a dictionary.”

3 - La Belle Nivernaise (October 16, 1942).

4 - The Assault (October 16, 1942). “It's quite amusing, but doesn't touch Joop ter Heul.”

5 - Marxveldt, Cissy van. Een Zomerzotheid. De Stormers. The Arcadia. Joop ter Heul series (October 16, 1942). “Cissy van Marxveldt is a first rate writer. I shall definitely let my children read her books.” … “I've enjoyed the whole of Cissy van Marxveldt very much.” (September 21, 1942).

6 - Een Zomerzotheid. (“The Zaniest Summer”). Anne Frank read this book 4 times. “I still laugh about some of the ludicrous situations that arise.” (September 21, 1942).

7 - Heeren, Vrouwen en Knechten. “Mummy is reading Heeren, Vrouwen en Knechten now, which I'm not allowed (Margot is).” (September 21, 1942).

8 - Koenen. Anne Frank looked up words in the Koenen. (September 21, 1942).

9 - Eva's Youth by Nico Van Suchtelen. (October 29, 1942) A “grown up book”. “I can't see much difference between this and the schoolgirl love stories. It is true there are bits about women selling themselves to unknown men in back streets. They ask a packet of money for it. I'd die of shame if anything like that happened to me. Also it says that Eva has a monthly period. Oh, I'm so longing to have it too; it seems so important.”

10 - Camera Obscura. (June 14, 1942).

11 - Tales and Legends of the Netherlands by Joseph Cohen (June 14, 1942).

12 - Boudier-Bakker, Ina. The Knock at the Door (March 12, 1943). “I can't drag myself away from a book called The Knock […] The story of the family is exceptionally well written. Apart from that, it is about war, writers, emancipation of women; and quite honestly I'm not awfully interested.”

13 - Daisy's Mountain Holiday (“a terrific book”) (June 14, 1942).

14 - The Myths of Greece and Rome (June 14, 1942).

15 - Young People's Annual (book) (July 11, 1942). Given to Anne by “Mr. Koophius”

16 - Cinema and Theater. (January 27, 1944). “Although this little gift is often called a waste of money by the less worldly members of the household, they are amazed each time how accurately I can state who is in a certain film, even after a year.”

17 - What Do You Think of the Modern Young Girl? (July 15, 1944). “The author of this books criticizes “the youth of today” from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as “incapable of anything good”. On the contrary, she is rather of the opinion that if young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.”

18 - Philips, Marianne. Henry from the Other Side (July 29, 1943). “Henri van de overkant” (1936). “Mr. Dussel had specially recommended us this book as being excellent. Margot and I thought it was anything but excellent. The boy's character was certainly well drawn, but the rest—I had better gloss over that.” … Mr. Dussel said, “How can you understand the psychology of a man! Of a child is not so difficult (!). You are much too young for a book like that; why, even a man of twenty would not be able to grasp it.”

19 - Hungarian Rhapsody (June 9, 1944). “The whole of the “Secret Annexe” except Van Daan and Peter have read the trilogy Hungarian Rhapsody. This book deals with the life history of the composer, virtuoso, and child prodigy, Franz Liszt. It is a very interesting book, but in my opinion there is a bit too much about women in it. In his time Liszt was not only the greatest and most famous pianist, but also the greatest ladies' man—right up to the age of seventy. He lived with the Duchess Marie d'Agould, Princess Caroline Sayn-Wittgenstein, ...”

20 - Sprenger. History of Art (June 13, 1944). 5 issues. (given to Anne as a gift).

21 - Maria Theresa (June 13, 1944). (given to Anne as a gift).

22 - Else's Jobs (children's book)

23 - Riek the Scamp (children's book)

24 - The Purge

25 -Gulbranssen. The Woods Are Singing for All Eternity. (October 20, 1942).

26 - Korner, Theodor. (October 26, 1942). Mr. Frank encourages Anne to read the works of German writers such as Frederick Hebbel and the plays of Theodor Korner, such as Hedwig, The Cousin from Bremen, The Governess, The Green Domino, etc. Anne considers Korner “a fine writer”.

27 - Panoramas. During the same week, Kugler also brings twelve Panoramas for the group to read (October 26, 1942).

Anne Frank could read Dutch, German, French, Hungarian, Swedish, and English, when Kentucky women can barely speak English.

  

  

For the education of men, just find 10 books that Anne Frank read, and then read them. It'll put you into the time period of Anne Frank, as well make you see how inferior you are to a child who died a long time ago, and that's men and women, most especially the stupid ass Americans who celebrate Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, and anything and everything that is evil and wicked. 

You'll also find out, even the computer geniuses, that the books Anne Frank read aren't readily available online, or in English. So compiling a list of 10 "Anne Frank" books to read will mostly be out of the realm of what any American man can or will accomplish.

In the meantime, men will continue to impress stupid ass fascist sympathizers because they're ignorant ass whores, and can only think with their dicks. Intelligence, solving problems, solidarity... thinking that you should rise with your class, well, that's just stupid! It's better to be racist and anti-semitic, because that's what Americans understand the best.

When Americans speak about how "smart" Hitler, or Jeffrey Dahmer, who was 1/millionth as wicked as Hitler was in terms of body count, they have internalized all of his wicked deeds, either as aspiring Hitlers themselves, or as a soulless follower... only by forming men, women, and children to have personalities bursting at the seams like Anne Frank, as nature intended, where one can feel their soul and humanity being destroyed when they are amongst Nazis, is the only solution to remedy a lost soul.

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NOTES

[Enzer, Sandra and Hyman. Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy.]

“Anne reads stories and articles in addition to books. She refers to Brer Rabbit from Uncle Remus (January 24, 1944), the Grimms (March 16, 1944), and even Popeye (May 8, 1944). Besides her beloved Cinema and Theater magazine (January 22, 27, 28, 1944), she names several others: Libelle, copies of which the group receives one Christmas (December 22, 1943); Rijk der Vrouw [Woman's Realm]; Haagse Post [Hauge Post]; Das Reich; and Prinsen [Princess], the latter one she hopes might publish one of her fairy stories under a pseudonym (April 21, 1944).”

Don Carlos, and other plays of Goethe and Schiller. (October 29, 1942). “Daddy has brought the plays of Goethe and Schiller from the big cupboard. He is going to read to me every evening. We've started with Don Carlos.”

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“Der Man hat einen grossen Geist, Und ist so klein von Taten!” (“The spirit of the man is great, How puny are his deeds!”)

Otto Frank is written that he reads Charles Dickens is one of his favorite authors. (August 5, 1943).

(January 24, 1944). Anne Frank referenced Br'er Rabbit. “Things may alter“, as Brer Rabbit said. […] In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a doll out of a lump of tar and dresses it with some clothes. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the Tar-Baby amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as the Tar-Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and in doing so becomes stuck. The more Br'er Rabbit punches and kicks the tar "baby" out of rage, the more he gets stuck. When Br'er Fox reveals himself, the helpless but cunning Br'er Rabbit pleads, "please, Br'er Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch," prompting Fox to do exactly that. As rabbits are at home in thickets, the resourceful Br'er Rabbit uses the thorns and briers to escape. The story was originally published in Harper's Weekly by Robert Roosevelt; years later Joel Chandler Harrisincluded his version of the tale in his Uncle Remus stories. Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.

“Anne reads stories and articles in addition to books. She refers to Brer Rabbit from Uncle Remus (January 24, 1944), the Grimms (March 16, 1944), and even Popeye (May 8, 1944). Besides her beloved Cinema and Theater magazine (January 22, 27, 28, 1944), she names several others: Libelle, copies of which the group receives one Christmas (December 22, 1943); Rijk der Vrouw [Woman's Realm]; Haagse Post [Hauge Post]; Das Reich; and Prinsen [Princess], the latter one she hopes might publish one of her fairy stories under a pseudonym (April 21, 1944).”

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“No one argued, however, with Anne about her favorite author, Cissy van Marxveldt, a prolific writer who composed in Anne's lifetime four of the five books in the Joop ter Heul series, still popular in Holland. The series about a young girl growing to maturity with a most unusual name for a female made Anne “enthusiastic” when she read it in September and October of 1942, and she claims that she enjoyed “very much” all of van Marxveldt's works, having read Een Zomerzotheid (“The Zaniest Summer”) four times. She did not like De Stormers (“The Storm Family”) as well as the Joop series, although she found it “amusing”. Anne describes van Marxveldt as “terrific” and also as one whom she will let her own children read one day. The fun-loving Joop, who corresponds with her friend Net until her father limits her letter writing and she turns to keeping a diary, also has a friend named Kitty, perhaps Anne's inspiration for her imaginary correspondent. Anne also refers to another van Marxveldt books, The Arcadia, about a voyage to Spitsbergen that she receives from Mr. Kleiman on October 18, 1942.”

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“In fact, October 1942 is a busy month for Anne in regard to reading. On the tenth, Mr. Kleiman gives her two of his children's books: Else's Jobs and Riek the Scamp, and on the eighteenth The Purge, all books that she does not comment on.”

“Two days later on October 20, 1942, Anne joins Peter and Margot to read Gulbranssen's The Woods Are Singing for All Eternity, which she characterizes as “a beautiful books, but very unusual.” Also Mr. Frank encourages Anne to read the works of German writers such as Frederick Hebbel and the plays of Theodor Korner, such as Hedwig, The Cousin from Bremen, The Governess, The Green Domino, etc. Anne considers Korner “a fine writer”. During the same week, Kugler also brings twelve Panoramas for the group to read (October 26, 1942).”

[Enzer, Sandra and Hyman. Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy.]

“Anne reads stories and articles in addition to books. She refers to Brer Rabbit from Uncle Remus (January 24, 1944), the Grimms (March 16, 1944), and even Popeye (May 8, 1944). Besides her beloved Cinema and Theater magazine (January 22, 27, 28, 1944), she names several others: Libelle, copies of which the group receives one Christmas (December 22, 1943); Rijk der Vrouw [Woman's Realm]; Haagse Post [Hauge Post]; Das Reich; and Prinsen [Princess], the latter one she hopes might publish one of her fairy stories under a pseudonym (April 21, 1944).”

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Eva's Dream. Anne Frank wrote “Eva's Dream”

Cady's Life. I haven't worked on “Cady's Life” for ages. In my mind I've worked out exactly what happens next, but the story doesn't seem to be coming along very well. I might never finish it, and it'll wind up in the wastepaper basket or the stove. That's a horrible thought, but then I say to myself, "At the age of fourteen and with so little experience, you can't write about philosophy."

"Eva's Dream" is my best fairy tale, and the odd thing is that I don't have the faintest idea where it came from. Parts of "Cady's Life" are also good, but as a whole it's nothing special. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't. Unless you write yourself, you can't know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn't draw, but now I'm overjoyed that at least I can write.

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In 1934, I went to school at the Montessori Kindergarten.

“The Lighthouse Keeper” (a Rin-tin-tin film)

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Karl Brandi's The Emperor Charles V, Zsolt Harsányi's biographies of Galileo and Franz Liszt, Karl Tschuppik's Maria Theresa, and others. Her reading—of books originally published in English, German, French, Hungarian, Swedish, as well as Dutch, of myths and legends, popular young-adult novels, articles on psychology, movie and theater magazines, a young people's annual, plays, and even the Bible

her reading of Professor Brandi's biography of Emperor Charles V, over which he labored forty years while at Göttingen University in Germany. Göttingen, founded by George II of England and Hanover in 1734, certainly contained by the early twentieth century, most of Johnson's and Boswell's works, for its collection has long been noted for its rich English holdings. Brandi emulates Johnson's ideas in including not just the significant events, but also the minutiae of his subject's daily life; his stated goal is to paint not a hero's portrait, but a man's with frailties and virtues (12).

Anne also emulates the eighteenth-century biographers in various ways; her introspective method, for one, reveals her ability to view herself as an outsider, her awareness of a prospective audience, her desire to be a writer, and her abundant possession of the autobiographer's primary prerequisite: knowledge of self. Though sometimes confused by her own conflicting emotions, typical of the teen years, she possesses a relentless interest, curiosity, and objectivity which provoke her to examine her own activities and thoughts intimately

Van Marxvelt's Joop ter Heul novels for teenage girls had a notable influence on the writings of Anne Frank, who addressed her diary letters to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne Frank scholars, as well as Anne's friend Kitty Egyedi, are united in their belief that Frank's Kitty was based on a character created by Van Marxveldt: Kitty Francken, a friend of Joop's and a frequent recipient of her letters.

Joop ter Heul was a fictional character in a series of five books written for teenage girls by Dutch novelist Setske de Haan (1889-1948), who wrote under the pen name Cissy van Marxveldt. Joop was high-spirited, headstrong and stubborn. The first four books, published over a six-year period (1919-1925) deal with her high school years, her young adulthood, her marriage, and her sons. The last book was not written until more than 20 years later. The initial four books are best remembered today for being a very strong influence on diarist Anne Frank, both in the character of Joop, whom she identified with, and in the epistolary style in which the books were written, which she adapted for her own diary.

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Literary and Philosophical References

Van Hildebrand, Camera Obscura (June 14, 1942)

Dutch Sagas and Legends (June 14, 1942)

Daisy Goes to the Mountains (June 14, 1942)

Cissy van Marxveldt, Joop ter Heul series; “The Zaniest Summer” (September 21, 1942).

Nico van Suchtelen, “Eva’s Youth”

Theodore Korner, Hedwig, “The Cousin from Bremin”, “The Governess”, “The Green Domino” (October 14, 1942)

Trygve Gulbranssen, “Beyond Sing the Woods” (October 20, 1942)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (October 29, 1942)

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (October 29, 1942)

Ina Baker Boudier, “A Knock at the Door” (March 12, 1943)

Charles Dickens (May 16, 1944)

“Maria Theresa” (June 13, 1944)

Oscar Wilde, “An Ideal Husband” (June 30, 1944).

“What Do You Think of the Modern Young Girl?” (July 15, 1944)

Historical References

Winston Churchill’s speech: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." (November 9, 1942)

Princess Elizabeth of York (April 21, 1944)

Princess Margaret Rose (April 21, 1944)

Prime Minister Gerbrandy (May 11, 1944 – first entry)

Galileo Galilei (May 11, 1944 – second entry)

The Bible (May 11, 1944 – second entry)

Emperor Charles V (May 11, 1944 – second entry)

Pop Culture References

Rin Tin Tin

Mrs. van Daan says she has never explained sex or reproduction to Peter, and she assumes that her husband has not. Neither parent knows where Peter has obtained any knowledge of sex. Anne has learned a few details about human reproduction from a sex education book. Peter shows Anne that his cat Boche is a male by pointing out the cat’s sexual organ. Anne knows the Dutch word for vagina, but neither she nor Peter is sure of the word for penis. Peter says he plans to ask his parents to tell him the word for the male sexual organ. Mr. and Mrs. van Daan have frequent arguments and sometimes shout at each other. Their son, Peter, seems embarrassed by them. Mr. van Daan yells at Peter when he disobeys. Mrs. van Daan hits Peter’s arm when he makes a sarcastic remark. Peter hits her arm in return before receiving another punch from his mother. Peter roughly pulls his mother around the room by her wrists to keep her from hitting him again. Mrs. van Daan says that in their old home, she would have hit him with a belt for being so insolent.

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“Gorgeous photograph isn’t it!!!!

I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.”

~Anne Frank. 12 June 1942.

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“Sunday 14 June 1942.

I think the next few pages will all have the same (page) date, because I still have a lot to tell you.

I’ll start with the moment I got you, or rather saw you lying on my birthday table, (because the buying, when I was there as well, doesn’t count.)

On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o’clock, and no wonder; it was my birthday. But of course I was not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to contain my curiosity until a quarter to seven. Then I could bear it no longer, and went to the dining room, where I received a warm welcome from Moortje (the cat).

I closed the communicating doors of course. Soon after seven went to Mummy and Daddy and then to the sitting room to undo my presents, the first to greet me wasyou, possibly the nicest of all. Then on the there were a bunch of roses, a plant, and some peonies, and more arrived during the day.

From Mummy and Daddy I got a blue blouse, Variety, which is the latest party game for adults, something like Monopoly, a bottle of grape juice, which to my mind tasted a bit like wine, and which has now begun to ferment and I may have been right, since wine is made from grapes after all; then a puzzle; a bottle of peek-aroma “with acorns” (I got that later, I mean “the acorns”; a jar of ointment; a 2½ guilder banknote; a token for two books; a book from Katze, the Camera Obscura, but Margot has got that already, so I swapped it; a plate of home-made biscuits, baked by me, of course, for I’m very keen on baking biscuits at the moment; a little dish of molasses candy, but it is horribly sticky; a bowl of “truffles,” from Daddy; a little plate of Marie biscuits; a letter from Grandma, right on time, but that was an accident, of course; and a home-made.

Then I came home at five o’clock, because I had gone to gymnastics, (although I am not allowed to do it because my arms and legs go out of joint) and I chose volleyball for my classmates as my birthday game. Later they all danced in a circle around me and sang “happy birthday to you.” When I got home Sanne Ledermann was already there, and I’d brought Ilse Wagner, Hanneli Goslar and Jacqueline van Maarsen along with me from gymnastics, because they are in my class. Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends, and people who saw us together always said there they go Anne, Hanne and Sanne.3 I only got to know Jacqueline van Maarsen at the Jewish Secondary School and she is known as my best friend. Ilse is Hanneli’s best friend, and Sanne goes to a different school, where she has her friends.

Five of us formed a club called “the little bear, minus 2” or t.l.B-2 for short. That was because we thought the little Bear had 5 stars, but we were wrong there, because it has seven stars, just like the great Bear; minus 2 therefore means that Sanne is the leader and Jacque is the secretary and that we (Ilse Hanneli and I) are left to make up the club. It’s a ping-pong club.

I was given a lovely book on the occasion namely Tales and Legends of the Netherlands by Joseph Cohen, but unfortunately they gave me the second part, and so I swapped the Camera Obscura for Tales and Legends of the Netherlands part 1, including a book from Mummy, for it is very expensive. I got 6 beautiful carnations from Hello. Hello is a second cousin or a first cousin once removed of Wilma de Jonge, and Wilma de Jonge is a girl who takes our tram and who seemed very nice at first and actually is quite nice, but she talks all day long about nothing but boys and that gets a bit tiresome.

Hello has a girl friend Ursula or Ursul for short.

But I am his real girl friend odd isn’t it!

Everyone thinks I’m in love with Hello, but that is absolutely untrue. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle; aunt Stephanie a lovely little brooch; aunt Leny a marvelous book Daisy’s travel adventures, and a bracelet from Anne with a kiss; Mr. Wronker a box of Droste and a game; Mrs. Lederman a roll of acid drops; Mrs. Pfeffer a roll of acid drops; Mr. van Maarsen a bunch of sweet peas; Peter van Pels a bar of milk chocolate, Mrs Pfeffer and Mr. Wronker flowers as well and so I was thoroughly spoiled. This afternoon I also got something from the children in my class. Yesterday evening we showed a film “The lighthouse keeper,” with Rin-tin-tin; and we’re going to have it this afternoon again, lovely!!!!

I shall still get the Myths of Greece and Rome with my own money. Another book from Mr. Kohnke and at Blankevoort’s a box for storing Variety. Now I must stop next time I’ll have so much to write in you again, that is to tell you, bye-bye, we’re going to be great pals.

Daisy’s mountain holiday is really a very beautiful book; I was deeply moved by the story about the girl who was so rich and yet so good and who died at the end, but that was inevitable and precisely what makes it so beautiful.

This morning in my bath I was thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin-tin-tin. I would call him Rin-tin-tin too and he’d be at school all the time with the caretaker or if the weather was good in the bicycle shed. I have made a rough sketch of my underground palace, as I call it to myself. I hope that this wish of mine will be fulfilled one day, but there would have to be a miracle then, since it doesn’t usually happen that food and money and things like that are supplied all the time and that you can set sail even to America or that you can just disappear under the ground and then live there, it’s too beautiful to be true. Mummy always wants to know who I’m going to marry, but I don’t think she’ll ever guess that it’s Peter, because I managed without blushing or flickering an eyelid, to get that idea right out of their minds.4 I am fonder of Peter than I have ever been of anyone else, and I keep telling myself that it’s only to hide his feelings that Peter goes round with all those girls; he also probably thinks that Hello and I are in love, which is quite untrue, because he is just a friend or as Mummy puts it one of my beaux.

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Monday 15 June 1942.

I had my party on Sunday afternoon, my school friends thoroughly enjoyed Rin-tin-tinI was given a little brooch by G.; Leny also gave me a brooch; E.S. a bookmark; J., Nanny van Praag and Eefje, a book called good morning milkman; Henny and Betty also gave me a book Lydia’s troubles. I shall now say a few things about our class and our school, beginning with the pupils. The pupils in class 1LII.

1.) Betty Bloemendaal, looks rather poor, but that’s what she is I think, she lives in Jan Klasenstraat in West and none of us knows where that is. She is very clever at school, but that’s because she works so hard, since cleverness isn’t all it seems.

She is a fairly quiet girl.

2.) Jacqueline van Maarsen, considered to be my best friend, but I’ve never had a real friend, I thought at first that Jacque would be one, but it turned out badly.

She’s always having little secrets and going off with other girls such as J.R.

3.) D.Q., is a very nervous girl, who always forgets things and gets one detention after another. She is very kind-hearted especially towards G.Z.

4.) E.S., is a girl whose dreadful tittle-tattle is beyond a joke. When she asks you something she’s always fingering your hair or fiddling with your buttons.

They say that E. can’t stand me, but I can manage to put up with that all right since I don’t think she’s all that likeable either.

5.) Henny Mets, is a nice, cheerful girl, except that she talks much too loudly, and is very babyish when she plays in the street. It’s a great pity about Henny’s friend Betty, who has a really poisonous effect on her, since she’s a horribly mean and dirty-minded girl.

6.) J.R., you could write whole chapters about her. J. is a swanky, whispery, nasty, boastful, underhand, hypocritical girl. She has got right round Jacque which is a real pity.

J. cries at the slightest little thing, is really petty, and on top of everything else horribly affected.

Miss J. always has to be right. She is very rich and has a wardrobe full of gorgeous dresses, but they’re much too old for her. She thinks she’s very beautiful, but she is just the opposite. She has a perky but cheeky (chutzpahish) expression. J. and I can’t stand each other.

7.) Ilse Wagner is a nice, cheerful girl, but she is very fussy and can go on and on about something for hours e.g. when she has wet feet, first she decides to come back to my place and then she wants to go home. Then instead of going home and putting on dry stockings, she comes with me but never stops going on about it. Ilse is very fond of me, she is very clever but lazy.

8.) Hanneli Goslar is a bit of a strange girl, she is shy on the whole and very cheeky at home, but quite unassuming with other people.

She blabs everything you tell her to her mother.

But she has an open mind and I respect her a lot particularly recently, continued next time.

Tuesday 16 June 1942.

Hanneli or Lies as she is called at school, did something silly again to Ilse and Jacque, I don’t really know what to think of it.

9.) Nannie v. Praag-Sigaar, is a funny little, sensible girl, I think she is very nice. She is fairly clever as well, there isn’t much one can say about Nannie van Praag-Sigaar.

10.) Eerfe de Jong, is a wonderful girl I think. She is only just twelve years old, but is quite a lady. She acts as if I am a baby.

Eerfe is also very helpful, and so I like her a lot.

11.) G.Z. is probably the most beautiful girl in our class she has a darling face, but is pretty stupid at school, so that I really think that she’ll be kept down, which is something I don’t tell her of course. To my great astonishment G. wasn’t kept down after all.

12.) And finally of our 12 girls there is me, sitting next to G.Z.

There is a lot, as well as very little to say about the boys.

Maurice Coster is one of my many admirers, but is rather boring. Sallie Springer is terribly mean, and rumour has it that he’s gone all the way with a girl. Still, I think he’s great because he’s very funny.

Emiel Bonewit is G.Z.’s admirer but that doesn’t mean much to G.

Rob Cohen was also in love with me, but now I can’t stand him any more he is a hypocritical, lying, whining, crazy, boring little boy, who thinks he’s the cat’s whiskers.

Max van de Velde is a country boy from Medemblik, but very eligible as Margot would put it.

Herman Koopman has also got a filthy mind just like Jopie de Beer who is a terrible flirt and mad about girls. Leo Blom is Leo Blom’s bosom friend but is also infected with dirty-mindedness.

Albert de Mesquita comes from the 6th grade of the Montessori School and has skipped a class, he is very clever.

Leo Slager, comes from the same school but is not so clever.

Ru Stoppelmon is a small, funny little boy from Almelo, who joined the school later.

C.N. does everything he’s not allowed??????????????????????????

Jacques Kocernoot sits behind us with A. and we laugh ourselves sick (G. and I.)

Harry Schaap, is the decentest boy in our class, he is really nice.

Werner Joseph (ditto, ditto) but too quiet because of the times we live in so he appears dull.

Sam Solomon is just a brat from the slums, a bit of riff-raff.

Appie Riem is slightly orthodox but she’s a nasty piece of work too.

My own story

I was born on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt a/M. I lived in Frankfurt until I was 4, then my father Otto, Heinrich Frank went to Holland to look for a post that was in June. He found something, and his wife Edith Frank-Holländer moved to Holland in September. Margot and I went to Aachen, to our grandmother Rosa Holländer-Stern, Margot went on to Holland in December, and I followed in February, and was put on Margot’s table as a birthday present.

Soon afterwards I joined the 6th grade of the Kindergarten of the Montessori School. I stayed there until I was 6, then I went up into the first form. I found myself in 1B with Mr. van Gelder, I stayed with him into the 4th form, then Mr. van Gelder left and Miss Gadron took over, after one year in the 5th with Miss Gadron, I ended up in 6C under Mrs. Kuperus the headmistress, at the end of the school year we had to say good-by, we both wept, it was very sad. But after the vacation I was back with Mrs. Kuperus, I was supposed to stay with her into the 7th year, but it didn’t turn out that way since I was accepted at the Jewish Secondary School where Margot was going too. My reports surprised every one, but perhaps they are not yet good enough to go up. In the summer of 1940 Granny Holländer fell very ill, (she was staying with us by then) she had to have an operation and my birthday didn’t mean much. It didn’t in the summer of 1940 either, for the fighting in the Netherlands was just over then.

Granny died this winter 1941-1942. And no one will ever know how much she is in my thoughts and how much I love her still.

The celebration of this 1942 birthday was to make up for everything then, and granny’s little light shone over it.

xxx

Friday 19 June 1942.

“This morning I was at home, I slept a long, long time, then Hanneli came and we had a bit of a gossip, Jacque has suddenly become very taken with Ilse and behaves very childishly and stupidly towards me, the more I know her the less I like her.”

~Anne Frank

xxx

Favorite Books or books within the diary-

“Tales & Legends of the Netherlands” by Joseph Cohen

“Daisy’s Mountain Holiday” (wizard book)

“An Ideal Husband” by Wilde

Galilei

Sprenger's “History of Art”

“Maria Theresa”

“Hungarian Rhapsody” – film

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

~Anne Frank, page 137