On this day in 1944, Anne Frank wrote her final diary entry, just days before the secret annex was raided and the Frank family deported to concentration camps. Her last words were about how she has to “keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if… if only there were no other people in the world.”
August 1, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
“A bundle of contradictions” was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. Can you please tell me exactly what “a bundle of contradictions” is? What does “contradiction” mean? Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within. The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always knowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The latter, for which I’m not known, is my own secret.
A Dutch court ordered the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam to return archival material to a Swiss charity named for the teenage Jewish diarist.
The Anne Frank Foundation must give back the archive to the Anne Frank Fund in Basel by January 1, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on Wednesday.
Since 2007, the archive has been on loan from the Basel organization to the Amsterdam foundation. It contains 25,000 letters, documents and photos from several generations.
The Basel organization demanded the return of the archive in 2010 to realize plans to create a Frank family museum in Frankfurt.
A spokesperson for the Anne Frank Foundation said she could not say at this time whether the organization would appeal the ruling.
The two organizations have a history of strained relations, as the fund has accused the foundation of commercializing the memory of Anne Frank, The Associated Press reported. Judges rejected the fund’s request that the foundation suffer large fines for every day it failed to return the archives.
Anne Frank, who wrote about hiding with her family in a tiny secret attic apartment in Amsterdam for two years during the Nazi occupation, died in a concentration camp at age 15. Her father Otto survived the war and published his daughter’s diary. (JSPACE.COM)
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