Prompted by this announcement, Anne began to edit her diary, hoping to publish it after the war under the title "The Secret Annex." From May 20 until her arrest on August 4, 1944, she transferred nearly two-thirds of her diary from her original notebooks to loose pages, making various revisions in the process. On March 28, 1944, a radio broadcast from the Dutch government-in-exile in London urged the Dutch people to keep diaries, letters, and other items that would document life under German occupation. Increasingly, she expressed her desire to be an author or journalist. She gave it the title "Stories and Events from the Annex." Occasionally she read a story to the inhabitants of the annex, and she wrote about her intention to send one of her fairy tales to a Dutch magazine. On September 2, 1943, she began to meticulously copy them into a notebook and added a table of contents so that it would resemble a published book. In her diary, she reflected on her "pen children," as she called her writings. Īnne also wrote short stories, fairy tales, and essays. The fact that we can never go outside bothers me more than I can say, and then I'm really afraid that we'll be discovered and shot, not a very nice prospect, needless to say. Rather a mad way of looking at being in hiding perhaps but that is how it strikes me. I don't think I shall ever feel really at home in this house but that does not mean that I loathe it here, it is more like being on vacation in a very peculiar boardinghouse. I expect you will be interested to hear what it feels like to hide well, all I can say is that I don't know myself yet. I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.
She received her first diary on her 13th birthday, June 12, 1942. While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences. They huddled into a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street, which would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well.
I n July 1942, Anne, her sister, Margot, her mother, Edith, and her father went into hiding. The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May 1940, and two years later German authorities with help from their Dutch collaborators began rounding up Jews and ultimately deported them to killing centers. Anne Frank and her family fled Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933 and resettled in the Netherlands, where her father, Otto, had business connections.
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