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Annelies Marie Frank, plus connue sous le nom d’Anne Frank, née le 12 juin 1929 à Francfort-sur-le-Main en Allemagne, sous la République de Weimar, et morte en février 1945 ou mars 1945 à Bergen-Belsen en Allemagne nazie, est une adolescente allemande, connue pour avoir écrit un journal intime. Celui-ci est rapporté dans le livre Le Journal d'Anne Frank, écrit pendant les deux années où elle se cachait avec sa famille à Amsterdam, aux Pays-Bas, alors sous occupation allemande, afin d'éviter la Shoah.

La famille quitte Francfort pour Amsterdam à la fin de l’année 1933, afin d'échapper aux persécutions nazies à l'encontre des Juifs qui se multiplient depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir d'Adolf Hitler en janvier. Alors que les dangers s'intensifient à Amsterdam occupée par les Allemands depuis mai 1940, les Frank se cachent en juillet 1942 dans un appartement secret aménagé dans l’Annexe de l'entreprise Opekta d'Otto Frank, le père. Anne a alors treize ans. Après deux ans passés dans ce refuge, où ils sont rejoints par quatre autres personnes, le groupe, sans doute trahi, est arrêté le 4 août 1944 puis déporté le 2 septembre 1944 vers le camp d'extermination d'Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sept mois après son arrestation, Anne meurt du typhus dans le camp de Bergen-Belsen, quelques jours après sa sœur Margot Frank. Le camp est libéré par des troupes britanniques le 15 avril 1945, Amsterdam est libérée le 5 mai 1945.

Son père Otto, l'unique survivant du groupe, revient à Amsterdam à la fin de la guerre et apprend que le journal d'Anne, dans lequel elle relate sa vision des événements du 12 juin 1942 jusqu'au 1er août 1944, a été préservé. Convaincu du caractère unique de l'œuvre, Otto décide de la faire éditer : le texte original en néerlandais est publié en 1947 sous le titre Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 . Décrit comme le travail d'un esprit mûr et perspicace, l'œuvre donne un point de vue intime et particulier sur la vie quotidienne pendant l'occupation nazie. Ce journal d'une adolescente au destin tragique a fait d'Anne Frank l'une des victimes emblématiques de la Shoah. Il a en effet été traduit du néerlandais dans de nombreuses langues et est devenu l'un des livres les plus lus dans le monde après la Bible. Plusieurs films, téléfilms, pièces de théâtre et opéras en ont été tirés. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. juin 1929 – 1945   •   Autres noms Anna Franková, Анна Франк
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Anne Frank: Citations en anglais

“Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”

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Source: The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related Readings

“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. 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.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.”

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"Give!" (26 March 1944)
Variant translation: People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow.
Tales from the Secret Annex

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

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”

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The Diary of a Young Girl

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.”

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3 May 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Contexte: I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

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“Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!”

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Variant translation: The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
28 September 1942
Variante: I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

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Variant translation: Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
6 July 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variante: Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

“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.”

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“Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”

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Source: The Diary 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.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinions. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.”

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2 March 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.”

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3 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”

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Source: Unsourced

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

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7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”

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“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”

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“Paper is more patient than man.”

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Variante: Because paper has more patience than people.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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