[Annelies]

Greetings, members of the Hax Network.

Today is Anne Frank's 83rd birthday!

A very important and historical day, indeed. Today, Anne Frank would be 83 years old if she'd survived the Holocaust -- and to many, including me, she did... Through her diary! Not only is today Anne Frank's birthday, but 70 years ago today was the day she received a diary that would not only change my life, but the lives of millions around the world.

Some of you may not know who exactly Anne Frank is, so I'll tell you! Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born in Frankfurt, Germany but later moved to Amsterdam where she'd end up hiding in her father's jam factory during WWII. Before her family went into hiding, her father purchased a diary for her 13th birthday and Anne wrote in it almost everyday as she hid from the Nazis.

She hid for two years (1942-1944) before she was eventually caught due to an unknown person alerting the Nazis on her family's whereabouts. She was sent to a number concentration camps before dying in 1945. The exact date of her death is unknown but it's estimated to be between February 1945/March 1945.

Anne was oh-so very intelligent for her age. Her lexicon without-a-doubt exceeded my own, and so many of the people I've went to school with even today. She was so smart, and pretty, and everything about her seems so perfect to me.

The things she wrote about were so far beyond anything you'd expect a teenage girl to write about...

If it wasn't for Anne Frank, the Annelies [Me] you see today would be a totally different person. I have cried myself to sleep many times, and I have changed my middle name to Annelies in tribute to Anne Frank, and I plan on doing more.

I don't know how to end this but I love you Anne.

[Honcho]

67 years dead eh long tym


There's one built in on this fone :-)

[mcmrc1]

R.I.P Anne Frank...

[Mackdanny]

Her sacrifice, though sad, has been a pinnacle of history and human understanding for quite some time. This brave little soul did not know she would lose her battle with typhus, but in the end she won the war that was plaguing mankind. I'm not referring to WWII, I'm referring to the war she was fighting against oppression, against segregation, against fear, sadness and social status. She proved that it doesn't matter who you are, it takes just one to make a difference. While I have yet to read the diary, I must give my thanks to Anne for this deed she did for us all, and to Otto Frank for fulfilling her will and cementing her in modern society and history.

RIP Anne Frank

[CrystalWolf]

A very happy birthday may her soul rest in piece.

[JOshISPoser]

not to downplay what you said, but i think most people wrote a lot better back then than they do now. people can barely type/write out all the letters in their words, let alone use a vocabulary past 4th grade. older books can be so difficult for me to read due to pacing and stuff; i'm so dumbed down sometimes

[screwhead]

It' late but Happy Birthday Anne. Her people went through hell for there believes, much respect and empathy

[euss]

Originally Posted by Annelies The things she wrote about were so far beyond anything you'd expect a teenage girl to write about...

Actually, writing about fear, love, dreams, hope, sexuality, first period, breasts, clothing made it for me more expecting what a teenage girl would write about in a hidden journal, when no longer having contact with close friends while coping with "x people in a room and I only like 3" in a stockholm syndrome way.

Old people wanted me believe times where different back in those days, but the journals just showed me the opposite, there was no different morals, no different fears, even no different dreams. In that sense, it made it more real to me, and that the same could happen every day in the future too.

[Annelies]

I never looked at it that way.

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[euss]

It also made me rethink the situation (considering possible future repetition), which role I would/could/wanted/feared to 'play'.
The one giving shelter? Someone in the shelter? Someone knowing, bringing food? Or just someone outside not knowing, walking on the street while X looks outside the window?

I talked to my ancestors about WWII, you might say I have a strange fetish for that era. One uncle went to work on the eastern front for the germans, as a result his wife gotten certain benefits. The whole war she was talked down as a colaborator(/s-wife) by towns people, and after war her husband came back, he was slandered too. Until 10 years after the war when some of the people the wife had kept in hiding came back to thank their sheltergivers in that gruesome time.
(in another familybranch, one man died in prison for refusing forced labour, so that left the wife only option to colaborate with the germans, for which she died in may '45).
I never dared to ask how my grandfather lost 5 toes, I tried once, but he was very vague about it and wished not to talk about it. But his attitude made me think 'he was a bigger man without them', so i'll keep guessing. Just hope I would be as strong minded as he was, if I get my role served upon me.