A Story By Anne Frank

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www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/The-Nazis-occupy-the-Netherlands/Anne-Frank-at-the-Jewish-Lyceum/

By order of the Nazis, Jewish children are no longer allowed to attend regular schools. Special schools are set up for them. Jewish teachers who have lost their jobs because Jews are not allowed to work for the civil service are employed in these Jewish schools.

Despite the difficult situation many pupils have happy memories of the Jewish Lyceum. The teachers were good and despite everything they felt safe.

In her diary Anne writes about saying goodbye to her Mrs Kuperus, her teacher at the elementary school: ‘ A the end of the year we were both in tears as we said a heartbreaking farewell, because I’d been accepted at the Jewish Lyceum, where Margot also went to school.’ (20 June, 1942)



At the Jewish Lyceum Anne is known as a funny girl who likes to be the centre of attention. Anne gets on well with all her teachers. Only her math teacher, Mr. Keesing, is sometimes angry with her because she’s always chattering in his lessons. As punishment Anne has to write an essay with the title ‘”Quack, Quack, Quack, ‘Said Mistress Chatterback”.’ for him. Anne writes a poem which makes everyone laugh, including Mr. Keesing. From then on he calls her ‘Mistress Chatterback’.


Quack, Quack, Quack Went Mrs Quackenbush, A Story By Anne Frank.

Once upon a time there was a mother duck with three beautiful ducklings who lived in
a lake ruled by a proud swan. Quack, quack, quack, said Mrs Quackenbush to her brood.
Quack, quack, quack said the ducklings. Keep your voices down!
roared the swan, his feathers all in a ruffle, keep quiet or I’ll bite you, and then you’ll never quack again.

This swan was not a nice swan, he was a black swan, and all the other ducks in the lake
were afraid of him. But not Mrs Quackenbush. You won’t bit these children, she said to the swan,
who answered, they are only ugly little ducklings and I am their master.
And then he started to bit the ducklings, save us Mama! the poor little ducklings cried.
And then Mrs Quackenbush began to quack. She quacked, and she quacked, and she quacked.
Stop it! Stop that infernal quacking! cried the swan, putting his wings over his ears.
But Mrs Quackenbush did not stop, not until the black swan flew away, never to return. She gathered
her ducklings around her and together they swam off happily ever after, singing, quack, quack, quack.

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I also found this article yesterday that seems to answer the decades old question of who betrayed the Frank family:


For decades, historians have debated who betrayed Anne Frank and her family.

After spending two years eluding Nazi capture while in hiding in Amsterdam, the Frank family was discovered on Aug. 4, 1944, and promptly deported from the Netherlands to concentration camps.

Years later, after Anne Frank became famous for her diary, readers wondered what had gone wrong.

A long-held theory proposed that a new employee at her father's business, Willem van Maaren, tipped off the Nazis. But despite suspicions, there was no conclusive evidence van Maaren betrayed the family.


Now, about 72 years later, the world may have an answer to the mystery: Maybe nobody betrayed them at all.

Last week, the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam released a study that suggests that Anne Frank and the seven others hiding with her were discovered by chance.

According to the researchers, the German "Sicherheitsdienst" police who discovered the family usually investigated cases involving cash and securities, not Jews in hiding.

On Aug. 4, 1944, they went to investigate 263 Prinsengracht—the same building where Anne and her family were hiding—after receiving tips of fraudulent food-ration cards and illegal employment happening there. When they came to raid the building, they unexpectedly discovered Anne and the others.

The research is based on Frank's dairy entries from March 1944—entries that researchers say have not been used as a source until now. Her writing created a trail to judicial documents from other parts of the Netherlands, resulting in the latest theory.


"Despite decades of research, betrayal as a point of departure has delivered nothing conclusive," Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House museum, said in statement. "The new investigation does not refute the possibility that the people in hiding were betrayed, but illustrates that other scenarios should also be considered.

"Anne, who is famous for documenting her time in the “Secret Annex" in her renowned diary, died of typhus in the spring of 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She was 15 at the time of her death. Out of the seven others who hid with her, her father, Otto Frank, was the only one who survived the Holocaust.


time.com/4606399/study-anne-frank-betrayal/