The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank-Sunday, July 12, 1942

 The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank

Sunday, July 12, 1942

As you know, on Tuesday, they all enjoyed a lot. On Sunday, Anne wired hard and her parents and Margot praised her only to pricking (teasing) on her.

After that, Anne describes as to how her parents dealt differently with Margot and her. For example, Margot broke vacuum cleaner and Anne had to be without light because of it. But Mother just defended Margot by saying that she was not used to handle that type of appliances and,so, she could not unplug the switch properly.

Anne tells us more to clarify her point by adding that that afternoon she wanted to rewrite something on Mother’s shopping list because Margot’s handwriting was very bad. She not only scolded her but also disallowed her do that.

Anne also says that she does not fit in her family. They are so much sentimental while together, but Anne would prefer to remain so on her own. They were always saying that it was so nice when they were together, but they did not realize the fact that she (Anne) did not think so. She says that only her father understands about her. Sometimes, he sides with Mother and Margot.

Another thing that she is unable to tolerate is about her being talked about in front of outsiders, telling them how she cried or how sensibly she was behaving. Sometimes they talk about her cat, Moortji and she is her weak point. She misses her these days and her eyes are often filled with tears to think about her.

She also talks about her dreams, but, she also knows the bitter truth that they will have to stay in the hiding place until war is over. They can never go out and have only a few people to look at.

Friday, August 14, 1942

Anny tells her friend Kitti that between July 12 and August 14, nothing noteworthy (special) happened, so she did not make any entry in it for the whole month.

Anne takes us back and tells us that van Daan arrived there on July 13. They were coming on the 14^th but Germans were sending out call-up notices right and left. It was causing a lot of unrest among the Jews. That was the reason that the Frank family had decided to leave their house earlier for the hiding place.

Peter van Daan arrived there at the hiding place in the morning and the Frank family was still at the breakfast table.

Anne narrates that Peter was going to be sixteen and was a shy and an awkward type of a boy, whose company for her was not going to be entertaining. Mrs. And Mr. van Daan also arrived there half an hour later, carrying up a hatbox. Amusingly, Mrs. Van Daan was carrying with her a large chamber-pot (a portable container/vessel for urine and defecation used in bedrooms).

“I just don’t feel comfortable without my chamber-pot”, she exclaimed.

That item was placed permanently under a divan. Mr. van Daan was lugging(carrying with difficulty) under his arm a collapsible (that can be folded) tea table. Firstly, they ate breakfast together. After three days,, the seven of them felt like one big family.

The Frank family was curious to know about what had happened in the world outside their hiding place during all those days after they had left their apartment. They wanted to know as to what happened in their flat and to Mr. Goldschmidt.

Mr. van Daan told them all about it. He said that, Mr. Goldschmidt called him on Monday morning at nine. He reached there and went upstairs to meet him. He was very distraught (upset & worried). He showed Mr. vanDaan a note that Frank family had left behind.

 He was afraid that the house was going to be searched. So both of them went through all the rooms, making the things in normal position and clearing the breakfast things off the table. All of a sudden, Mr. van Daan’s eyes fell on a notepad on Mrs. Frank’s desk. The address ‘Maastricht’ was written on it. Even though Mrs. Frank had left that address with purpose, yet Mr. Daan pretended to show his surprise and shock at it. 

He also requested Mr. Goldschmidt to burn that incriminating piece of paper. He swore up and down to assure him that he knew nothing about the dis appearance of Frank Fmaily. But, the note had given the ide to misguide mR. Goldschmidt about them. Mr. van Daan told him that a high ranking officer, who was Mr. Frank’s friend was stationed at Maastricht and he must have helped him cross over to Belgium and then Switzerland. He also told Goldschmidt that he could tell all who desired to know about the Frank family. After that, Mr.  van Daan left.

Most of the friends of the Frank family knew that story. Anne says that they laughed a lot when Mr. van Dan told them that most of their friends believed that story and it had several versions. For example, one family claimed that they had seen all the four riding on their bikes early in the morning. Another woman was sure enough to tell others that all the four members of the Frank family were loaded into “some kind of military vehicle in the middle of the night.”