ANNE FRANK WRITES HER LAST DIARY ENTRY
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.
Three days later, the eight inhabitants of the annexe – Anne, her parents Otto and Edith, her sister Margot, and the van Pels family and family friend Fritz Pfeffer – were arrested by members of the Gestapo. They had been given up by an anonymous source. Anne was sent to various concentration camps, ultimately finding herself at Bergen-Belsen, where she and her sister succumbed to typhus. Anne was just 15 when she died.
The Frank family went into hiding in
