Anne Frank

caughtSecret Annex. 11:20 a.m.Anne closes her notebook and stretches her arms above her head. She has spent most of the morning on math problems her father assigned. He is still upstairs teaching Peter the day's English lesson, though, so she takes her diary off the shelf instead.Glancing up to make sure her mother has not noticed, Anne thumbs through the diary's handwritten pages to the back. She comes across an entry written two months earlier and happily reads again the wonderful news she was able to report on that day:Tuesday, 6 June, 1944Dear Kitty,"This is D-day," came the announcement over the English news and quite rightly, "this is the day." The invasion has begun!Great commotion in the "secret annex"! Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much, but which still seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy tale, ever come true? Could we be granted victory this year, 1944? We don't know yet, but hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again.Oh, Kitty, the best part of the invasion is that I have the feeling that friends are approaching. We have been oppressed by those terrible Germans for so long, they have had their knives so at our throats, that the thought of friends and delivery fills us with confidence!...I may yet be able to go back to school in September or October.Yours, AnneEveryone listened to the radio that evening, joyful and smiling as reporters told how soldiers from the Allied forces -- the United States, Britain, Canada, and other countries -- were battling Germans along the coastline of Normandy, France. They're so close, Margot had said happily. It's only a matter of time now, Mrs. Frank agreed.Her parents and the van Pelses had danced and laughed all evening, as loud as they dared, and their joy remained long after Anne's fifteenth birthday, six days later. Even Dr. Pfeffer was happier than she had ever known him to be.Miep brought newspapers so Anne and the others could continue to follow the progress of the Allied forces. Mr. Frank found a map of Western Europe in one of them, and he cut it out and attached it to the wall in the annex. Every time the BBC or newspapers report a new location of fighting between the Allies and the Germans, Mr. Frank places a pin on the map. The pins have been gradually approaching the Netherlands, which means the Allies are winning. Anne is sure it will be only a few more weeks before the Allies drive Hitler's soldiers out of Amsterdam.For now, it's back to less exciting thoughts: She knows her father will expect to see some of the math problems completed when he and Peter finish for lunch. First, however, she flips through the last few pages before closing her diary, the entry she wrote on July 15, 1944, catches her attention: "...in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."I'll keep that part in when I revise the section tonight, she promises herself, and then reaches for her math book.betrayal11:55 a.m.While Anne thinks about her diary and works on the math problems her father has assigned, Miep is in the office, finishing some paperwork before the lunch break.A stranger enters the building and walks straight to her desk. From his pocket, he draws a gun and points it at her. He orders her not to speak and not to move. She can tell at once that he's not a robber. He's a plainclothes police officer.The company manager, Mr. Kugler, hearing the unfamiliar voice, comes out of his office to investigate. The policeman tells them that someone just called the police station to report that Jews are hiding here. He motions Mr. Kugler back inside his office, and then follows him. The office door closes firmly behind them.Miep desperately wants to warn Mr. Frank and the otherColbert, David is the author of 'Anne Frank' with ISBN 9781416964452 and ISBN 1416964452.