![]() I knew how precious her diary was to Anne. ![]() I remembered how happy Anne had been to receive this little book to write her private thoughts in. “On the floor,” Gies writes in “Anne Frank Remembered” (with Alison Leslie Gold Simon & Schuster, $17.95), “amidst the chaos of papers and books, my eye lit on the little red-orange checkered, cloth-bound diary that Anne had received from her father on her 13th birthday. ![]() The Germans would confiscate everything, she knew, and so, lovingly, she gathered up a few treasured possessions, vowing to keep them safe for the Franks’ return. They had no such vision when, after their friends were discovered and arrested, the victims of a still-unknown betrayer, Miep Gies returned to the building that had once housed Otto Frank’s spice and jam businesses. ![]()
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