Anne Frank Quotes (1929-1945)

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Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a young German-born Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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English Translation: "Who would know how much goes on in a teenage girl's soul?"
Original (Dutch): "Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?"
Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
English Translation: "Fine people, the Germans. And I used to belong to that group!"
Original (Dutch): "Fraai volk, de Duitsers. En daar behoorde ik ook eens toe!"
Fraai volk, de Duitsers. En daar behoorde ik ook eens toe!
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
English Translation: "Forgive me, I'm not called a bundle of contradictions for nothing!"
Original (Dutch): "Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!"
Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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English Translation: "I'm going to let it ride and do nothing but study and hope for a good outcome."
Original (Dutch): "Ik laat het er op aankomen en doe niets anders dan leren en op een goed einde hopen."
Ik laat het er op aankomen en doe niets anders dan leren en op een goed einde hopen.
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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Anne Frank on Tranquility

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death … I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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Anne Frank on Confusion

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.
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Anne Frank on Potential

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
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Anne Frank on Antisemitism

Criticism of the policies of Israeli governments is not necessarily antisemitic. For instance, anyone is free to reject or criticise the political decisions of Israeli governments concerning the Palestinian territories – this is not uncommon in Israel itself. However, denying the State of Israel’s right to exist does constitute antisemitism.
- Anne Frank, A)
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Anne Frank on The Holocaust

[I]n 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. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
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Marjorie Agosín on Anne Frank

Anne Frank is each of us, and beyond what each of us is and will be. Her diary does not contain photographs of trains pulling into the last smoke-filled station. She dared to speak of springtime's light, and the body of a girl becoming a woman. I like Anne Frank because she was no more nor less than ourselves, a schoolgirl. She spoke of awakening to excitement, of the rain in Europe. Even so, there was something more in Anne, beyond that first innocence, as if she were submerged in transparencies.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga on Anne Frank

(Have you related to any other stories of children or adolescents, of young people growing up?) There was The Catcher in the Rye, the Diary of Ann Frank... Yes, actually I have, definitely.
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Vaclav Havel on Anne Frank

Anne Frank's legacy is still very much alive and it can address us fully, especially at a time when the map of the world is changing and when dark passions are awakening within people.

Dara Horn "Everyones on Anne Frank

Here's how much people love dead Jews: Anne Frank's diary, first published in Dutch in 1947 via her surviving father, Otto Frank, has been translated into seventy languages and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and the Anne Frank House now hosts well over a million visitors each year

John F. Kennedy on Anne Frank

John F. Kennedy powerfully acknowledged Anne Frank's enduring impact on the fight for human dignity amidst immense suffering, a sentiment echoed decades after her diary's publication.
Of the multitude who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
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Disputed Quotes

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

About Anne Frank

Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a young German-born Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.