Anne Frank received her now-famous diary on this day in 1942, her 13th birthday. “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support,” she wrote 71 years ago.
What she couldn’t have known then was just how fervently her teenage words would live on. Though Frank died in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, before she turned 16, the diary she received on her 13th birthday remains her enduring legacy.
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