Anne Frank~ Beyond The Diary

Blog Six:

In this section, I learned about the period of time before the Frank family went into hiding. The Frank's wrote a postcard to their aunt saying they were very upset that they would no longer get to talk to them. They had a friend, Miep Gies, that they trusted very much.  Miep took Margot to the Secret Annex separately.  Anne says on July 8, 1942,

"We put on heaps of clothes as if we were going to the North Pole, the sole reason being to take clothes with us.  No Jew in our situation would have dreamed of going out with a suitcase full of clothing.  I had on two vests, three pairs of paints, a dress on top of that, a skirt, jacket, summer shorts, two pairs of stockings, lace-up shoes, wooly cap, scarf, and still much more; I was nearly stifled before we started, but no one inquired about that."

If I was a Nazi, I would suspect.  This little girl, that has an extremely large body, but stick thin legs?  Probably, I would check her and see if she was stealing anything away!

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This is a picture of The Frank Family.  They look rather happy, and I think they were outside of the annex.