Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in1929.  She was a Jewish girl.

It was a very violent period in which Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party were gaining national support. Hitler hated Jews, using them as a popular whipping boy, blaming them for many problems in Germany. His fake news was fanatically believed by his followers.

Jews were not allowed to visit public parks, cinemas, non-Jewish shops or schools. They had to wear a distinctive yellow ‘star of David’ insignia on their clothes. Due to the growing number of anti-Jewish Government raids on private dwellings, Anne’s parents and family moved to Amsterdam. Soon the Nazi’s invaded the Netherlands. Once there they continued their anti-semite house raids.

In the spring of 1942, the whole Frank family had to go into hiding. They developed a secret annex in the house which became Anne’s hiding place. She was thirteen years old then. It was very cramped space for her and she had to keep very quiet at all times.  There Anne wrote about events in her diary until she and her family were discovered, arrested and dispatched to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps where she died from typhus and neglect.

The Diary of Anne Frank has become one of the bestselling books of all time. It has been translated in more than 70 languages. Anne was always waiting for something terrible to happen and yet she held onto her hopes for better times right up to the end.
Before she died at the age of fifteen she wrote in her diary:

 ‘I hear the approaching thunder that will, one day destroy us too,
I feel the suffering of millions.
And yet, when I look up at the sky,
I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, and
that peace and tranquillity will return once more’

In our day too, we wait for better times and pray for the coming of new hope.
Come Lord Jesus.