Finally, an editor from Contact Publishers became the third person to work on the texts, correcting typing errors and bringing the manuscript into line with the publisher’s style guide. All of this resulted in the first Dutch publication of The Secret Annexe in June 1947. With Otto Frank’s permission, Cauvern changed nine of the thirteen names that Anne herself – with a view to possible publication – had invented for the people in hiding in the secret annexe and their helpers.īoth typescripts have been preserved. At Otto Frank’s request, his friend Albert Cauvern then made a second typescript. This created a typescript, but it was not yet a book. In doing so he left out some sections, moved others and made some corrections. To help in the search for a publisher for Het Achterhuis ( The Secret Annexe, as Anne had named her second version) Otto Frank had parts of the diary entries typed out in late 1945. So the first version of the diary was not fully preserved, while the second version was unfinished. The loose sheets have been preserved: their last entries date from 29 March 1944. In this way she created a second version, in which the events of December 1942 to December 1943 are described. She did this on sheets of carbon copy paper: the so-called “loose sheets.” On these loose sheets of paper she reorganised and rewrote her earlier diary entries: she reordered texts, sometimes combining entries from various dates under one date, and considerably shortening some sections. Anne Frank rewrote her diary entries herself in the secret annexe, with a view to them possibly being published after the war. Two versionsįrom June 1942 onwards, the diaries of Anne Frank describe in a penetrating way the daily life of the eight Jewish people in hiding in the ‘secret annexe’ on the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam. This Verhaaltjesboek and Mooie Zinnenboek have both been preserved. Other textsīesides her diary, Anne also wrote Verhaaltjes, en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis ( Tales from the Secret Annexe) in a large accounts book, and she filled a small, narrow cash book with quotations: her Mooie Zinnenboek (Favourite Quotes Notebook). Her third and last diary volume, also a school exercise book, begins on 17 April 1944 and ends on 1 August 1944. It is highly improbable that Anne Frank did not keep a diary between December 1942 and December 1943, so we must assume that this section has been lost. Her second surviving diary book, a school exercise book, begins on 22 December 1943 and continues up to 17 April 1944. Among the presents she received was a notebook: an almost square book with a red-white-gray checkered cover and a clasp. For this reason, the Anne Frank House wants to use all the means at its disposal – and therefore also our website – to repudiate the lies about the diary of Anne Frank.Įxactly what writings by Anne Frank have been preserved?ġ2 June 1942 was Anne Frank’s thirteenth birthday. Every Internet user can be confronted with them, usually unwillingly.
In addition, the people who spread material in which the Holocaust is denied or the diary of Anne Frank is attacked have in the Internet a means of potentially spreading their ideas very widely indeed. Through satellite television, these lies also seep through into the Western world. Many children in the Middle East learn at school that the diary of Anne Frank is a forgery.
But in the Middle East, Holocaust denial has increasingly become a weapon in the struggle against Israel, and falsehoods about the Holocaust are put forward on television and the Internet on a wide scale. There are no serious scientists who doubt the fact that the Holocaust took place or that the diary of Anne Frank really was written by her. In Europe and North America the distribution of material in which the authenticity of the diary of Anne Frank is attacked – and often that the Holocaust is denied – is fortunately only the work of a few people.
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