Yours Anne

 Remembering Anne Frank on her birth anniversary

 

When I hear the word 'diary', there is only one person who comes to  my mind, It is Anne Frank! If 13 year old Anne would have read this she must have jumped with joy and would have started counting me in her list of 'admirers' 

 
A girl who once wrote, ' who will be interested in the musings of a thirteen year old?', would have never imagined that people will love her through her writings.The reason her diary is so popular is this that it is highly relatable. For a teen it is as such as if you are reading something what you always felt but could not express.She was a great observer considering that she was only 15 when she wrote her last diary entry.She kept writing in it for two years and through the pages one can experience the journey of a bubbly talkative girl to a wise mature young woman(as she calls herself).

I read her diary for the first time when I was in 7th grade but I could not relate much.But in 2020 when there was lockdown and people had to isolate themselves.Then, I could feel what she wrote about boredom and fear.It would be wrong to call her unsung as her diary is the most widely read holocaust account. Her portrayal of their day to day life in secret annex and quarrels gave quite a detailed picture of life in hidding.One of her entry in which she talks about her plans after liberation can break anyone's heart. Hate crimes during Nazi era are one of the darkest phase of world history.The fear of Nazi concentration camps troubled every jew in hidding.This young girl was still hopeful and had a faith in humanity.

Her diary as I said is not limited to a teenager's musings rather it tells a lot about human nature.At the same time she wrote openly about her relations with each member in hiding.She loved her father the most.But equally disliked her mother but somewhere she realises that she had been so unfair to her.Her elder sister Margot also kept a diary but it was lost when Nazi troops raided the Secret Annex.The lives of 8 people who lived,fought, celebrated and again fought is fun to read but the fact that all this happened can make one feel sad.

Her diary immortalised her

She died in the concentration camps only three months short for her 16th birthday.But she is still alive in the hearts of her 'admirers'.

ASMITA