Anne Frank's last words

On August 1, 1944, Anne Frank wrote the last entry in her diary. "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..." The Franks were arrested by the Gestapo three days later after Otto Frank’s business partner informed on them. Anne Frank died in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp a month before it was liberated by the Americans.

Anne Frank

On June 6, 1944, 14 year-old Anne Frank is listening to the radio, in the secret annex at the address in Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, and hears the voice of General Eisenhower announcing the invasion of Europe. She records the news in her diary: “I have the feeling that friends are approaching.”

Anne Frank appears on pages 7, 29, 33, 35 and 45 in A Book of Ages.