![]() 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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