“I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.”

—  Anne Frank

2 January 1944
(1942 - 1944)

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Ik sus mijn geweten nu maar met de gedachte, dat scheldwoorden beter op papier kunnen staan dan dat moeder ze moet meedragen in haar hart.

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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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