''The Anne that emerges from the original writings is not a different Anne,'' Andries Paape, the director of Amsterdam's War Documentation Institute, told the press, ''just a fuller Anne.''Īnne Frank's moving story stands as one of the finest examples of diary as literature. But next year, the Government of the Netherlands intends to publish the first complete text of the diary. ''No editor can be trusted not to spoil a diary,'' wrote the late Arthur Ponsonby, a distinguished British diary critic, in 1923. For publication, he omitted up to 60 percent of the original text, much of which deals with Anne's growth into womanhood. But fathers have a way of discarding undignified little details, and Otto Frank was no exception. Anne was taken to the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, where she was killed.Īfter the war, her father, Otto, the only survivor in the family, decided to publish his daughter's heart-rending diary. It was begun when Anne was 13, just before she, her family and friends went into hiding from the Nazis in a small apartment annex in the city of Amsterdam, and ended shortly after her 15th birthday, when the Nazis raided their hideout. ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' is perhaps this century's most celebrated evocation of the interior life. ANNE FRANK, from the unpublished portion of her diary, Aug. They have done that now in such a way that it looks like a wall cabinet with books.
Kugler was afraid that they might come here to search for hidden bicycles and for that reason he wanted to have the door leading to our place camouflaged.
By Patrick Huyghe Things are getting very secretive here now. Patrick Huyghe, a journal keeper himself, worked in the field of social psychology before he turned to writing.
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