Have you learned about Anne Frank? In school? In church? In daycare? Anywhere? At the beginning of the School Year of 2005-2006 we learned about Anne Frank, read the novel, watched the movie and researched her.

I thought it was boring but when we watched the movie I realized how horrid it was for her and how horibble the Concentration Camps were. I began to think about how thankful we should be that we're not in Concentration Camps and that we have Freedom.

Anne Frank was born on June 12th, 1929. After she was betrayed by the Nazi's, she and her family and four friends went into hiding during the Holocaust for 25 months. Anne Frank died in March, 1945 of the disease typhus when she was only fifteen years old.

Her Diary became published in 1947, for the first time. Currently, her diary has been translated into sixy-seven different languages, and it is one of the most widely read books in the whole world.

One of her Diary Exerpts:

"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents." - October 9, 1942

I hope you learned something about Anne Frank, I know this was rather short but I have to go. If you'd like to learn more you can go online to www.annefrank.com and find out more about her in her Diary Exerts and by the Timeline with the sequenced events.

Author's Note:Resources: What I learned when we studied it in school and www.annefrank.com