The Arrest

Daily activities

'Only with a certain time allocation laid down from the start and with each one having his own duties, could we have hoped to live through the situation. Above all the children had to have enough books to read and learn. None of us wanted to think [about] how long this voluntary imprisonment would last.'

Otto Frank

A day in the Secret Annex

The people in hiding are on a tight schedule.More

The shared kitchen

Learning and reading

Otto en Edith Frank take into account that hiding could be for a long period of time. The bring school books for their daughters.More

Cursus Spaans
The people in the Annex pass the time by reading and studying.

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she is my hero.Im reading her diary and everytime i do i get to the point of crying but i really dont want to cry in class.

josephine kennedy, 12 - panguitch utah - United States - 16 Dec 2011

I enjoyed your Anne Frank site a great deal and I am writing to let you and your students know that I just posted a 1960 article by Anne Frank's father. The article concerns that generation of German teens, who had read her diary, and the grown-ups who surrounded them, who were responsible for Hitler. http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/post-ww2_germany_forgot_anne_frank I thought that you would all find it interesting. Matt Jacobsen

Matt Jacobsen, 51 - Los Angeles - United States - 30 Nov 2011

i love anne frank shes so brave she is so strong i love hur so much she is a romodel

heather, 12 - norich - United Kingdom - 16 Nov 2011

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