FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944
J Dear Kitty,
quot;If youre going to ttic, take an umbrella ; to protect you from quot;; tc;; but it obviously doesnt apply to ime (guns!) and to people in box!). Mouscten into t of relieving o fear tters and, even encje in t ts not permeate this house.
I also ion for gunfire jitters: ing gets loud, proceed to t aircase. Run up and doimes, making sure to stumble at least once. c even be able to ing, muc it. Yours truly to use, success!
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
Nehe
division of butter. Capitulation on t of Dussel. Close friendster and Mrs. van Daan, flirtations, kisses and friendly little smiles. Dussel is beginning to long for female companionship.
t see y. Mood upstairs: bad. Mrs. van D.
tablets, w none.
taken Rome. ty neitroyed nor bombed. Great propaganda for ler.
Very featoes and vegetables. One loaf of bread was moldy.
Scje (name of ne stand pepper. S box and does o keep her.
Bad inuous bombing of Pas de Calais and t coast of France.
No one buying dollars. Gold even less interesting.
ttom of our black moneybox is in sig are o live on next month?
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
tUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944
My dearest Kitty,
quot;t; t twelve.
quot;t; the invasion has begun!
t eigised ionary measure for territories, everyone living y miles from t o prepare for bombardments. iss an ime.
According to tisroopers of France. quot;Britis are engaged in combat s,quot;
according to the BBC.
Conclusion reacing at nine: trial landing, like two years ago in Dieppe.
BBC broadcast in German, Dutc ten: t;realquot; invasion. BBC broadcast in German at eleven: speec Eisenhower.
BBC broadcast in Englis;t; General Eiseno t;Stiff fig after tory. te victory. Good luck!”
BBC broadcast in Englis one: 11,000 planes are stling back and fortanding by to land troops and bomb be and small boats are continually arriving in t not least, Churchill.
A ion in ted liberation? tion alked so muc, oo good, too mucale ever to come true? ill tory? e dont kno. But rong again. ell need to be brave to endure t to come. Its noter of remaining calm and steadfast, of gritting our teetiff upper lip! France, Russia, Italy, and even Germany, can cry out in agony, but yet right!
Oty, t part about t I friends are on terrible Germans ened us for so long t t of friends and salvation means everyto us! Nos not just t says, I can even go back to scober or September.
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
P.S. Ill keep you informed of test news!
t nigrae t the ground. Many
paratroopers, t be seen in t ons of bombs during t, and t six in t landing craft came asoday tion. tal batteries royed even before te t;one will and one hope.”
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
Great neaken Bayeux, a village on t of France, and are noo cut off ted. Every evening ts report on ties, ting spirit of to get tories, t amazing feats. A fee tly back and fort Ced to land along roops on D Day, but Eiseno talk of it. Just imagine, so muc be at least seventy!
tement ; still, s about time! Mrs. van Daans constant griping is unbearable; no s t in a bucket of cold er!
Everyone in t Mr. van Daan and Peter rilogy, a biograpuoso and c. Its very interesting, t too muc only test and most famous pianist of ime, ty. ess Marie d Agoult, Princess Carolyne Sayn- ittgenstein, tez, t Agnes King Soper, tress Lilla c., and to it. ts of ts are muceresting. Some of tioned are Scor Berlioz, Joon Rubinstein, Frederic Cor c., etc.
Liszt appears to man, very generous and modest, tionally vain. art above all else, remely fond of cognac and bear t of tears, leman, couldnt refuse anyone a favor, interested in money and cared about religious freedom and the world.
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
314 ANNE FRANK
tUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944
Dearest Kit, Anoteen. I received quite a fes:
Springers five-volume art ory book, a set of unders, a , a jar of jam, t from Margot, a sticker album from t and s peas from Dussel, candy from Miep, candy and notebooks from Bep, and t: ter gave me a lovely bouquet of peonies; t a lot of effort into finding a present, but note .
till going splendidly, in spite of ther -- pouring rains, gale winds and high seas.
Yesterday Cs, Eisened t tisured and liberated. Corpedo boat t s. Uke many men, seem to knorait!
From our position Annex, its difficult to gauge tch.
No doubt many people are glad tisten doo to be occupied by tis realize o t figruggle and sacri- fice its sons to liberate ries. After t tis remain in hol- land:
t abject apologies to all tries, restore tc Indies to its rigurn, , as Ive already said, many Dutced among t would s neighbors if
England reaty s unity to do?
would !
All tcill look dois England and its government of old fogies, call t e t raig their jumbled brains!
iss, accusations and reproac really as conceited as many people ts and scomings better t t I to cly!
, I often ask myself, t everyone still t-all? Am I really so arrogant? Am I t, or are they?
It sounds crazy, I kno Im not going to cross out t last sentence, because its not as crazy as it seems. Mrs. van Daan and Dussel, my totally unintelligent and, not to put too fine a point on it, just plain quot;stupidquot;! Stupid people usually cant bear it examples of two dummies, Mrs. van Daan and Dussel. Mrs.
van D. tupid because I dont suffer so muc as soo s because er, and s-all because salks topics s. t one of my favorite sayings is quot;; and I readily admit Im a kno-all.
s so difficult about my personality is t I scold and curse myself muc I despair of ever getting talk back and start contradicting everyone until tably crops up again:
quot;No one understands me!”
t of me, and as unlikely as it may seem, trut. Sometimes Im so deeply buried under self-reproac I long for a to again. If only I ook my feelings seriously. Alas, I yet found t person, so t go on.
I kno Peter, arent you, Kit? Its true, Peter loves me, not as a girlfriend, but as a friend. ion gro some mysterious force is kno is.
Sometimes I terrible longing for ed. But ts not true, because if Im unable to go to er is kind and good, and yet I cant deny t ed me in many care for able conversations and various t nature. Still, Im firmly convinced t ick to our agreement never to quarrel. Peter is peace-loving, tolerant and extremely easygoing. s me say a lot of to from ermined effort to remove ts from antly being accused of knoo kno not in practice) t in time, even t uncommunicative types will long as muco confide in.
Peter and I our contemplative years in ten discuss ture, t and t, but as Ive already told you, I miss t I kno exists!
Is it because I been outdoors for so long t Ive become so smitten ure? I remember a time ivated me. t during tecost ance, ruggled to keep my eyes open until eleven-ty so I could get a good look at too muc risk opening a ime, several monto be upstairs one nig go back doil it o be closed again. t time in a year and a Id seen t face-to-face. After t evening my longing to see it again er t-infested doairs all by myself and looked out tce office. Many people ture is beautiful, many people sleep from time to time under tarry sky, and many people in als and prisons long for to enjoy ure o offer. But feed and cut off as ure, which can be shared by rich and poor alike.
Its not just my imagination -- looking at dle sky, dle clouds, dle moon and dle stars really does make me feel calm and s mucter medicine ture makes me feel o face every bloh courage!
As luck for a feo vieure ty curtains tacked over dirt-caked takes dle pleasure out of looking. Nature is dle one titute!
One of dle many questions t en bodlered me is to be so inferior to men. Its easy to say its unfair, but ts not enougo kno injustice!
Men presumably dominated er prengts men w chey please. . .
Until recently, ly along upid, since ts kept up, trenc becomes. Fortunately, education, ed equal rig also men, noo tolerate tate of affairs for so long. Modern t to be completely independent!
But ts not all. omen sed as eem in all parts oft ed immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but oo as soldiers?
In t I ly struck by t t in cs pain? Ss pusy is gone.
omen, o ensure tinuation of touging together!
I dont mean to imply t ure intended to, and ts t s I condemn are our system of values and t ackno, but ultimately beautiful womens sy is.
I agree completely men must learn t birt of as inevitable and unavoidable in ts of ts easy for men to talk -- t and never women do!
I believe t in t century tion t its a y to and admiration of all or a lot of pompous words!
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
Ne s end. Salking about getting s, being t Peter confides in me and not in Dussel doesnt re- spond sufficiently to ations and afraid o squander all t money on to- bacco. Sarts allover again.
on earty? Nobody takes rengter, so one and all, and you sen Lyzeum, yon vorne Museum.* [Acts like a scers becoming insolent, Mr. van Daan irritable and Mote a state! to remember: laug everyt everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but its actually ty.
Mr. Kuglers supposed to spend four ail. rying to get out of it ors certificate and a letter from Opekta. Mr. Kleimans omaced on soon. Starting at eleven last nige p off.
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
Notis attack on Co Pim and Mr. van Oaan, o be liberated before October 10. taking part in terday tarted tebsk, exactly to t the Germans invaded Russia.
Beps spirits of potatoes; from noo count t for eac t arting Monday, Mieps taking a ion. Mr. Kleimans doctors found anytorn betting matters take their course.
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
tUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1944
My dearest Kitty,
tebsk and Zoday. to ured lots of men and equipment. Five German generals aken captive. No t a isever t on sentin Peninsula ured just ter t a feat!
In t been a day rain and storms, neit t kept tis. And a little firecracker like t , except maybe minor damage in England and screaming newspapers.
Anylandquot; t tting closer, ts.
All German ary are being evacuated, togetal regions to t* [* tcional Socialist (Nazi) Party] if t. Is t fat pig planning to fig in Russia long before nourned doime ago, and noiations have been broken off again.
theyll be sorry!
hink well be on July 27?
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
Bad a stretco ty June* [Annes Englis I say t le Englis to prove it Im reading An Ideal ionary! ars going wonderfully: Bobruysk, Mogilev and Orss of prisoners.
Everyt s are improving, our superoptimists are triump, ts s test news!
Ive been ly root-canal teets been terribly painful. It I o faint, and I nearly did. Mrs. van D. promptly got a toothache as well!
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
P.S. eve Bernd* [Cousin Bern of t;artistic leanings,quot; says Mother.