Anne Frank

Secret Annex. 11:20 a.m.

Anne closes her notebook and stretches her arms above her head. She has spent most of the morning on math problems her father assigned. He is still upstairs teaching Peter the day's English lesson, though, so she takes her diary off the shelf instead.

Glancing up to make sure her mother has not noticed, Anne thumbs through the diary's handwritten pages to the back. She comes across an entry written two months earlier and happily reads again the wonderful news she was able to report on that day:

Tuesday, 6 June, 1944

Dear Kitty,

"This is D-day," came the announcement over the English news and quite rightly, "this is the day." The invasion has begun!

Great commotion in the "secret annex"! Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much, but which still seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy tale, ever come true? Could we be granted victory this year, 1944? We don't know yet, but hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again.

Oh, Kitty, the best part of the invasion is that I have the feeling that fri ... read full excerpt from: 10 Days: Anne Frank ebook