Hidden in a secret annexe, Anne Frank hunches over her diary, the slight scratching of her pen barely breaking the room’s oppressive stillness. It’s the first day of August in 1944, and as Anne adds another entry to her diary – a battered school exercise jotter, the third notebook that she’s filled with her innermost thoughts – she cannot know these written words will be her last.
The cloth-covered diary that Anne Frank received for her 13th birthday MAIN: Anne was still a schoolgirl when she went into hiding with her family
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