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__** Anne Frank's Journey **__

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death." -Anne Frank


 * On August 1, 1944 Anne writes in her diary for the last time.*



The Frank family started their journey at Westerbrook. There they recall their stay as "pleasant." Their hopes of of staying their was soon outlived. The Nazis told them to get ready to be moved. That only meant one thing: they were going to a concentration camp. In October 1944, Anne and Margot were separated from their mother. They were sent to Bergen- Belsen. Living conditions were much worse and food was even more scarce. Typhus swept through the camp. Margot was the first to die. A few days later, just before the end of the war, Anne died. She was 15 years old. As for their mom Edith, she died at Birkenau. The only surviver of the Annex was Otto Frank. Miep read Anne's diary a year later and thought that if it was made into a book, "Anne's voice would never be lost." Otto was first resistant to having Anne's diary to be published but soon gave in. Gradually, the diary's fame spread and it was translated into many different languages. In 1957, a movie about Anne Frank was made. As for Otto, he remarried a lady who only her and her daughter survived. One of Anne's diary entries wrote, "everything is so different from ordinary times and from ordinary people's lives. What can a person do in the face of such evil?" Anne Frank helps us to remember he Holocaust. She is often referred to as a symbol for the lost promise of the children of the Holocaust. Today, Anne Frank's legacy lives on.

The following video is in memory of Anne Frank. It contains some photos of her and her family.

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