Most important part of the diary is the insight it offers into what it means to be human, says executive director of Anne Frank House museum. FMTNews AnneFrank
PARIS: A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger.
“The most important part of the diary is that it offers some insight into what it means to be human,” Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, told AFP. Addressing her diary as “Dear Kitty”, over the next two years she described her thoughts and feelings about life in isolation with her family and the four other Jewish people they lived in hiding there with.
“She’s their peer. They recognise her voice, what she was thinking of, what she was doing when she was struggling with her relationship with her mother,” he said.There are several theories about why, including that the Franks were betrayed by neighbours or because of black market activities in the warehouse below, but as Leopold says “it’s all unsubstantiated, so we don’t know.”
But the diary had been saved by Miep Gies, one of the people who had helped those in the secret annexe.
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