Spring EN066-01 Reading Workshop: March 9, 2012

Friday, March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

I finally finished my novel. Anne's last diary post was on Tuesday - August 01, 1944 because the Gestapo found the hiding place on August 04, 1944. It's so sad how the males and the females had to be separated and how everyone was getting sick and slowly dying. That was the last that Anne's father would see his family. He survived until after the war, went back to the Secret Annexe and found Anne's diary.

Broke my heart when I read about what happen when Anne stopped writing. So sad they never got to be together as whole and in a house they can call theirs.

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leslieMarch 9, 2012 at 3:03 AM
wow it would of been nice for there families to be together by that time.
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Dolores C.BrownMarch 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM
That's how it is in camps like those. Not enough food,water, beddings. Yes, so sad. That's why it's important to love your childeren to death. And that's why I hate wars and rumors of war.
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