Anne Frank
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"Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank" was a diarist and writer. She was one of the most discussed Judaism/Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Republic/Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the Netherlands in World War II#German occupation/German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazism/Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to Nazi concentration camps/concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) in March 1945.

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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

We all live with the objective of being happy; yet our lives are all different and yet the same.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.