The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank-Visions of Lonely Cells and Concentration Camps

 The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank

Visions of Lonely Cells and Concentration Camps emerged in her mind.

Anne & Margot waited for their mother in the living room. Their mother had gone to ask Mr. van Daan if they could move to their hiding place the next day.

There was silence. Their father was away from home as he had gone to see someone in the Jewish Hospital. He was completely unaware of that development. Again the door bell rang and Anne expected that would be Hello.

Their mother & Mr van Daan were talking to Hello downstairs. After sometime, behind them came in and shut the door behind them.

Actually, the call was for Anne’s sister, who was sixteen, not for her father.

They wanted the girls of her age to shift them to their own places. Anne did not know where they were going to hide.

Then Margot and Anne started packing their important things in satchels. Anne packed up her diary first and then ‘curlers’ handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb and some old letters.

The thought of going into hiding was dominating her mind. She didn’t care to pack diaries and memories were more important to her.

Father reached home around 5 o’clock and they called Mr. Kleiman if he could come by the evening. Mr. van Daan left to bring Miep, who arrived after some time and promised to remain with them till late at night. While going home, she took with her a bag full of shoes, dresses, jackets, underwear and stockings. After that, no one felt like eating in their apartment and silence prevailed there.

Mr. Goldschmidt, a divorced man in his thirties, was their tenant in the big room upstairs. He could not do anything for them that evening. Miep and   Jan Gies came by eleven. Miep worked with Anne’s father’s company since 1933. She and her husband had become their family friends.

Once again, shoes, stockings, book and underwear disappeared with Miep and Jan’s deep pockets. They disappeared at eleven-thirty.

Anne knew that it would be her last night in her bed. She fell asleep very quickly and did not wake up until he her mother called heart five thirt the next morning.

While leaving their house, they wrapped themselves in more clothes. Tey would not dare to leave their house with suitcase full of clothes.Anne was wearing two undershirts, three pairs of underpants, a dress and over that a shirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. She was suffocating in a way.

Margot also stuffed her school bag with books

They closed the door at seven thirty. Anne said good bye to her cat, Moortje.

Thursday, July o9, 1942

Then they reached by walking in the pouring rain the place where they were going to hide.

They were Anne, her father and mother. Each of them was having a satchel () and a shopping bag and those were filled to the brim with different items.

The people were recognizing them by their conspicuous yellow badges worn by them, seemed to feel sorry for them as they were unable  to provide them with any help like transportation.

It was while walking, Anee’s parents revealed about their plans. They had been moving the furniture and clothing (apparels)  out of their apartment fpr months together. Their plan was to move to the hiding place on July 16, but because of Margot’s call notice, they had to prepone it.

Their father’s office was best suited for their hiding place as very less people worked there. Those were only five persons, Mr. Kuglu, Mr. Kleiman, Miep and a Pep Voshijam of  twenty –three years.

They were already informed by their father about it. Mr. Voskujl, Bep’s father, who worked in the warehouse wasn’t informed. Now, Anne describes the building in detail. It was a large warehouse at the ground floor. It was divided in several sections to be used workrooms and store-rooms.

The office had a separate entrance.

After describing different rooms doors, windows and stairs going up and down, she tells us about the ‘Secret Annex’ (the hiding place)

There was a flight of stairs. To the left, was a narrow hallway( a corridor/entrance hall) which opened onto a room that served for them as a living & bedroom..Next door was a smaller room, the bedroom and study for Anne and Margot. There was  a windowless washroom with just a sink to the right of the stairs. The door in the corner lead to the toilet and another one to Margot’s and Anne’s room.

If you go upstairs, you will find a large & spacious room used for Kugler’s laboratory. There was a store and a sink in it and that room would be their kitchen and bed room for Mr. and Mrs. van Daan. It would also be used as a general living room, dining room and study for them all. There was another small room for Peter van Daan’s bedroom.