She had found it in the annex and kept it safe, always hoping that one day she would be able to return it to Anne herself. On his return to Amsterdam in 1945 Miep Giep, his former secretary who had helped the family in hiding, returned Anne’s diary to him. Anne and her sister Margot died in Bergen-Belsen in February 1945. The family were in hiding for over two years until, betrayed, they were sent to concentration camps. She is all too aware of what is happening to Jews in Europe but the horror of being discovered, the nights spent in complete silence as burglars prowl the offices below, is tempered by a deep faith in humanity. In 1953, Eva’s mother and Otto Frank were married.Īnne’s vivid descriptions of being cooped up for so long, rotten food, the often unsavoury toilet arrangements and the inevitable rows, sit alongside her remarkably assured understanding of her own character, women’s rights, frank discussions about sex, and her feelings towards Peter, the son of the other family in hiding with them.Īnne follows the progress of the war on the BBC, longing for the invasion and liberation. Like the Frank family, Eva's family were also betrayed and sent to concentration camps where her father and brother died. They both went into hiding from the Nazis on the same day. Eva knew Anne as a young girl in Amsterdam.
The readings include reminiscences from Eva Schloss. When the family went into hiding less than a month later Anne took her diary with her addressing each entry to Dear Kitty, the confidant and friend she so craved while shut up in the secret annexe above her father’s business premises. On her 13th birthday, June 12th 1942, she was given a red chequered diary. Her family had fled from Germany to Holland hoping to escape the Nazi’s persecution of the Jews.
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