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"I was born in Germany the twelfth of June, nineteen twenty-nine."
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"Things went well for us until nineteen forty. Then the war came..."
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"At five o'clock this morning mother woke me and told me to hurry and get dressed."
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"My wife, Ebith. Mr. and Mrs. VanDaan... their son, Peter... my daughters Margot and Anne."
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"A diary; i've never had a dairy. and i've always longed of one."
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"It is the first night of the Hanukkah celebration. Mr.Frank is standing at the head of the table on which is the Menorah."
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"Saturday, the first of January, nineteen forty-four. Another new year has begun and we find ourselves still in our hiding place."
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"The people from whom Miep got our ration books have been arrested. So we have had to cut down o our food. Our stomachs are so empty that they rumble and make strange noises, all in different keys."
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"We're all of us hungry! I see the childrengetting thinner and thinner. Your own son Peter...I've heard him groanin his sleep, he's so hungry. And you come in the night and steal food that should go to them... to th children."
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"Mr. Frank... the most wonderful news... the invasion has begun."
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"And so it seems our stay here is over. They are waiting for us now. They've alloweed us five minutes to gt our things.We can each take a bag and whatever it will hold of clothing. Nothing else. So dear Diary, that means i must leave you behind."
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"... I found out about my wifes death...of Margot..the Van Daans.. Dussel. But Anne ...I still hoped.. yesterday I went to Rotterdam. I'd heard of a woman there... she'd been in Belsen with Anne .. I know now."
