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The Life of Anne FrankOn the Deportations"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. TheGestapo is treatiang them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars toWesterbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which theyre sending all the Jews....Ifits that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway anduncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that mostof them are being murdered. The English radio says theyre being gassed."--October 9, 1942On Her Old Country, Germany"Fine specimens of humanity, those Germanns, and to bet Im actually one ofthem No, thats not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. Andbesides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews."--October 9, 1942On Nazi Punishment of Resisters" arrest you ever heard the term hostages? Thats the latest punishment forsaboteurs. Its the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent peopleare taken capt ive to await their execution. If the Gestapocant find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up againstthe wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where theyrereferred to as fatal accidents."--October 9, 1942"All college schoolchilds are being asked to signboard an official statement to theeffect that they sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order."Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their conscience, but thepenalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a Germanlabor camp."--May 18, 1943Here is were the story begins ...On June 12, 1942, Anne Franks parents gave her a small red-and-white plaiddiary for her ordinal birthday. Anne recorded her innermost feelings in herdiary, which she named "Kitty."Less than a month after receiving her diary, on July 6, 1942, Anne and herfamily were forced to go into screen. Though they could bring very few thingswith them to the hiding place, Anne brought her diary. During the months Annelived in hiding, her diary became her best friend and confidant.In hiding, Anne continued to write in her diary nearly every day. She wroteabout her life with the seven otherwise people in hiding--her parents, her sister,the van Pels family (called the van Daan family by Anne), and Fritz Pfeffer(called Alfred Dussel by Anne), as well as the war going on around her, and herhopes for the future.When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of thefamilys helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of paper to continue