Who on Earth was Anne Frank? Teenager Outsmarted the Nazis w ...

nakamoto hitori

• 28 mei 2025
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Samenvatting:

For her thirteenth birthday in 1942, a girl was given a red-and-white checkered diary. It was just a normal thing — the kind of thing that is not special in terms of design or price.
You could have bought it at any corner store in Amsterdam. But what that girl did with it over the next two years would ripple across continents, decades, and generations. Her name was Anne Frank.
What is it about this one female teenager, among the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, that remains prominent in the thoughts of students, authors, politicians and poets?
Why has her diary been translated into more than 70 languages, read by millions, and staged and filmed the world over? Why not someone else? And, more provocatively still: What if the answer isn’t really a matter of tragedy but something entirely different — something even more subversive?
Anne Frank did not live to see the end of the war. She did not grow old. She did not lead a rebellion or assassinate a Nazi officer or escape on a train to freedom. What she did, instead, was write. But not just about the war.