Who is Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] (listen), Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] (listen); 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a Jewish girl who kept a diary during World War 2, and documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution. She is a celebrated diarist who describes everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's ...
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Y8hda: "whoever is happy will make others happy too." -anne frank
Valskjunq: 51. how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –anne frank
Kat72764: she was enchanting. always so thin due to the malnutrition she suffered during the war. she was born the same year as anne frank.
7wmsb: whoever is happy will make others happy too. -anne frank
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Improvement
 by Edgar Albert Guest

The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;
In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;
In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,
Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.
The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his day
By leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
Were all things perfect here there would be naught for man to do;
If what is old were good enough we'd never need the new.
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