“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. My advice is - “go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy!”
On this day 82 years ago, Anne Frank, one of the most renowned and courageous people of all times, is born to Edith Holländer and Otto Frank as their second child in Frankfurt, Germany. After three years of hiding in a “secret annexe” in Amsterdam, she and her family were persecuted and sent to Auschwitz; her mother, sister, and herself separated from her father. In October 1944, she and her sister were deported to Bergen-Belsen. Anne believed her father to be dead and knew her mother was dead from starvation and told Hanneli Goslar and Nanette Blitz, old friends she reunited with in the concentration camp, for that she did not wish to live any longer. In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through Bergen and her sister was killed from the shock of falling from her bunk sick with the illness. Soon after, Anne also died. Unfortunately, this was only a month before the liberation of the camp by British soldiers. Anne was 15.
Happy birthday, brave soul.
