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Anne Frank
said
[...] let the end come, even if it is hard, then at least we’ll know whether we will win out in the end or go under.
— 26 May 1944 (Version A of the diary)
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
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- Germany rank#31
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Updated 2026-08-30
A teenage girl's diary written while hiding from Nazi persecution became one of the most widely read documents of the Holocaust, translated into over 70 languages and read by millions who would never meet her.
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Born in Frankfurt in 1929, Annelies Marie Frank moved with her family to Amsterdam in 1934 after Hitler rose to power. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, the family was trapped; two years later, as Jewish persecution intensified in July 1942, they went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where her father Otto worked. For two years she documented their everyday life in the attic. The Gestapo arrested them on 4 August 1944. Anne and her sister Margot were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in November 1944, where they died of typhus in Februa…
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Anne Frank
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Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through my library of treasures. “Algebra,” Margot said.
— 20th May 1944, Version A of the diary ('either' would be a more accurate word than 'too' in this context).
Anne Frank
saidundated
Het is voor iemand als ik een heel eigenaardige gewaarwording om in een dagboek te schrijven.
— For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that
Anne Frank
saidundated
Ik sus mijn geweten nu maar met de gedachte, dat scheldwoorden beter op papier kunnen staan dan dat moeder ze moet meedragen in haar hart.
— I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
saidundated
Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
— Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
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Momentum0.2
Historical33.8
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Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
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