Nelson Mandela, as quoted in "Anne's words still strengthen spirits" by Joyce Apsel in The St. Petersburg Times (26 January 2000)

Some of us read Anne Frank's diary on Robben Island and derived much encouragement of it.

— Nelson Mandela

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Anne Frank

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.