80: Anne's D-Day

 

June 6^th:“My dearest Kitty, This is D Day,  the BBC announced at twelve. This is the day. The invasion has begun!

A huge commotion in the Annex! Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation? The liberation we've all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? Will this year, 1944, bring us victory? We don't know yet. But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.

Oh, Kitty, the best part about the invasion is that I have the feeling that friends are on the way. Those terrible Germans have oppressed and threatened us for so long that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us! Now it's not just the Jews, but Holland and all of occupied Europe. Maybe, Margot says, I can even go back to school in October or September.

Yours,

Anne M. Frank

P.S. I'll keep you informed of the latest news!”

 ^ This was Anne Frank’s Diary Entry on June 6, 1944 (80 years ago today) when she heard about the Allied D-Day Landings in German-Occupied France while hiding in German-Occupied the Netherlands.

Anne wouldn’t live to see the end of World War 2.

She was arrested in August 1944.

 In September 1944 she was on the last Cattle Train sent from German-Occupied the Netherlands to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.

In October 1944 she was sent to Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany where she died of Typhus in March 1944.

She was 15 years old.  ^