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Anne Frank
Second World War Diary Keeper

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death.

Anne escaped the fear and hardship by writing in her red-and-white diary. Starting each entry ‘Dear Kitty’, she wrote about her dreams: she wanted to live in Paris and London, to wear beautiful dresses, and to become a journalist. She wrote about being hungry and bored. She wrote about her jealousy of Margot and arguments with her mother. She wrote about her feelings for seventeen-year-old Peter Van Pels and about their first kiss. She wrote about how gazing out at a chestnut tree through a silver of glass. But, most of all, she wrote about hope: hope that something would change and that she would be free once more. (HALLIGAN, 2018, P.105)

(Source: HALLIGAN, K. Her story: 50 women and girls who shook up the world. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, New York – 2018.)