The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) | Anne Frank

I am angry. Why in the world did this happen. I thought this was going to be a sad story. And it is but it has made me angry that a person rose to power with the ideals of killing people. I saw Schindler's List when I was a teen, roughly the same age when Anne wrote the diary. I remember it being a big deal at the time. But I didn't get to have any emotional weight to it. It appeared as something that only grown ups talk about.

This is different. This was a girl that had a bright future ahead, with great possibilities. But no. I don't know why this upsets me. I remember being at that age. I went to school, had a good home, had good friends. Similar things that a child at that age should have gotten to have. She didn't get to complete that. I never had a younger sister. But it certainly felt like, I should have taken care of this girl. A tribute to Anne's writing and perspective that this book has survived the decades.

 She wrote these lines when they were in the middle of their hiding in the "Secret Annexe".
"... i looked out of the open window too, over a large area of Amsterdam, over all the roofs and on to the horizon, which was such a pale blue that it was hard to see the dividing line. "As long as this exists," I thought, "and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy."
What must it have been like for her during her last few days. She left this diary before they were taken by the Gestapo. Having no knowledge of the significance of what it will become. This probably would not have been in her mind. She might have thought of her dad, what her mom is doing and how her sister is. How the people around her are being systemically exterminated. Terrible thing for a child to witness and be part of. Terrible for a human being. 

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