Jan Karski – Witness to the Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I’m free, and yet I can’t let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she writes on the Christmas Eve of 1943.<\/p>\nOn August 1, 1944, Anna makes her last entry, where she writes about the continous struggle between her contradictory inner selves.\u00a0\u201cNo one knows Anne\u2019s better side, and that\u2019s why most people can\u2019t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that everyone\u2019s had enough of me to last a month. Actually, I\u2019m what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker \u2014 a mere diversion\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nFew days later, Anne and her family are discovered in their hiding place by the security police. This is followed by their arrest, interrogation and deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Anne dies aged fifteen from typhus.<\/p>\n
The diary’s popularity inspired a 1955 play by screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which has been performed across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"