Born on June 12, 1929, Annelies Marie Frank was the second daughter of Otto and Edith Frank, middle-class Jews from Frankfurt, Germany. When Anne was four, the Franks fled the Nazis to Amsterdam. Seven years later, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and Otto, who ran a business selling pectin and spices to Dutch women, immediately made plans to hide his family in the attic annex of a warehouse he leased in Amsterdam’s narrow old quarter.
The Franks and four associates survived undetected for 25 months with the help of some of Otto Frank’s employees until an informer, most likely a warehouse clerk tipped off the Nazis.
Anne and the others were sent to Auschwitz. Nine months after they were arrested, she and her sister ultimately died of typhus and starvation in Bergen-Belsen, another camp, in March of 1945. She was fifteen years old. Of the eight, only Otto Frank survived.
After the war, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam, where he received Anne’s diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies.
“No one will be interested in the unbosomings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.” Anything but uninteresting, Anne Frank’s diary stands as perhaps the single most poignant human document of history’s most inhuman event, the Holocaust. During the time she spent hiding from the Nazis with her family, Anne recorded her innermost thoughts and musings on life, puberty and family. Over every word – written with an honesty, fluency and freshness of insight that would be impressive in a mature writer and are astonishing in an adolescent – the Gestapo threat hangs ominously. Yet a tender and touching optimism pervades the young writer’s pages. The fact that her ultimate fate was such a repudiation of her optimism makes reading her story at times almost unbearably painful.
Anne Frank’s diary was first published in 1947. In 1953, the notebooks were released in the United States as the Diary of a young Girl. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.
One could say that Anne Frank’s adolescent “unbosomings” are an extraordinary testament to humankind’s dual capacities for bottomless inhumanity and irrepressible hope in the face of such brutality.
一九四五年死于 Bergen-Belsen 集中营的安妮·法兰克 (Anne Frank)是
德籍犹太人。她留下来的日记使她名闻遐迩。
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