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    LIFE Anne Frank: The Diary at 70: Her Life and Her Legacy
    LIFE Anne Frank: The Diary at 70: Her Life and Her Legacy
    LIFE Anne Frank: The Diary at 70: Her Life and Her Legacy
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    LIFE Anne Frank: The Diary at 70: Her Life and Her Legacy

    By The Editors of LIFE and Bill Clinton

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    In 1942, a young girl named Anne Frank was given a diary as a 13th birthday present. In it, she recorded her thoughts and experiences as her family-German Jews living in Amsterdam-went into hiding to attempt to escape the Nazi regime. They were finally found out and did not survive to the end of the war, but the subsequent publication of Anne's moving, mature and often beautiful diary made her into one of the most significant chroniclers of the Holocaust. The diary has been translated into 70 languages, with 25 million copies sold, and the lessons of Anne Frank's life continue to be learned anew every day.

    Includes:
    • How Adolf Hitler came to power-and how the Frank family realized they would have to go into hiding
    • The experiences that convinced Anne Frank she was meant to be a writer
    • What happened to Anne and her family after they were discovered
    • The world's response to the publication of Anne's diary in 1947 and the impact it has had in the seven decades since
    • Plus: An introduction by President Bill Clinton
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife
    Release dateMay 12, 2017
    ISBN9781683309253
    LIFE Anne Frank: The Diary at 70: Her Life and Her Legacy

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      LIFE Anne Frank - The Editors of LIFE

      Contents

      The Lessons of Her Life

      By President Bill Clinton

      Gareth Patterson/AP

      President Bill Clinton in 2015 dedicates an Anne Frank exhibit at his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas—home to a sapling from the Achterhuis chestnut tree.

      But where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

      Anne Frank, June 6, 1944

      On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received a small diary for her 13th birthday. She and her family had been living in Amsterdam for nine years after fleeing their native Germany in 1933, when the Nazis gained power and began stripping Jews of their most basic rights. Although the Franks found stability for several years, they could not escape the wave of turmoil and repression sweeping across Europe. Less than a month after Anne received her diary, she and her family went into hiding to avoid being sent to the Nazi camps.

      For the next two years, Anne confided her innermost thoughts to her diary. Her chronicles of daily life paint a picture of a bright girl—full of hopes and fears and love for her family and friends—navigating the passage from childhood into adulthood in a savagely cruel world that could not crush her heart, imagination, and dreams of the future. In one entry in 1944, she described her love of writing and her desire to make a career of it one day, saying, I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

      She got her wish far too soon. Her diary comes to an abrupt end in August of 1944, when she and the others hiding in the Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 were discovered, arrested, and sent to concentration camps. Anne, her sister, Margot, and her mother, Edith, all died there. Her father, Otto, miraculously survived and upon returning to Amsterdam learned of Anne’s diary. He dedicated the rest of his life to sharing her story with the world so that the same tragedy that befell his family and millions of others might never be repeated.

      Now, 70 years since the first publication of her diary, Anne Frank endures as one of the great messengers of our common humanity. Through her courage, her hope, and her unshakable faith in the goodness of people—despite the grave injustices visited upon her and her family throughout her brief life—she continues to give a voice and a face to the six million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust. Her short life left a long legacy, touching and inspiring generation after generation of people she never met.

      I will never forget visiting the Anne Frank House when I was just 23 and thinking that I had already been alive eight years longer than she had been allowed. Like millions of people who have been moved by Anne Frank’s story, I have tried my best since then to live my life in a way that redeems the years she could not have. Today, the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock is honored to be home to a sapling propagated from the tall chestnut tree outside the Anne Frank House. Just as Anne Frank looked at that tree’s branches from her hiding place and dreamed of a better life, I hope that our tree will remind all visitors to the center that we are duty bound to share the future and ensure that the atrocities of the past are never repeated.

      In this deeply troubled time when so many people around the world are divided by religious, racial, and ethnic differences, the lessons of Anne Frank’s life are more important than ever. We would all do well to remember the wisdom of a young girl who taught us that we are all diminished when any person suffers unfairly because of who he or she is—and that our differences make life more interesting, but our common humanity matters much more.

      A Happy Childhood, a Looming Threat

      Growing Up in Germany and the Netherlands

      Anne Frank Fonds, Basel/Getty

      Anne happily mugged for her passport photos in 1939, a year before the Nazis conquered the Netherlands and started their plans to round up Jews.

      Later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

      Anne Frank, June 20, 1942

      Things were good for the Frank family. Prosperous, cultured, and fervently patriotic, they had lived in Frankfurt for generations. During World War I,

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