"Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I'm terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we'll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect."
Seventy years ago today was the beginning of the end for a young girl who just wanted to live and express herself through her writing, with aspirations of being a journalist; a girl who somehow saw beauty in the world despite the unrelenting ugliness just outside her window ("In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world"). Anne Frank was captured and arrested by the Nazis on the morning of August 4th, 1944 and sent to Huis Van Bewaring, then on to Auschwitz, and finally to Bergen-Belsen where she died at age 15.
