This
is the last known photo taken of Margot, left, and her sister Anne.
[Photo from "A History for
Today: Anne Frank" ]
Diary
of a Young Girl (excerpts )
By Anne Frank
There's in people simply an urge to destroy,
an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception,
undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built
up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind
will have to begin all over again.
Diary of a Young Girl, entry dated
... we often ask ourselves here despairingly:
"What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can't people live peacefully
together? Why all this destruction?" The question is very understandable,
but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make
still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time,
prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on
the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or
for poor people?... Oh, why are people so crazy?
Diary of a Young Girl, entry dated
... in spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a
foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world
gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder,
which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I
look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this
cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.
Diary of a Young Girl, entry dated
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