Video: '12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives a diary for her 13th birthday'

(Friday, June 12, 1942, 6:45 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received an autograph book for her 13th birthday today that she decided to use as a diary and would name it “Kitty.”

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The gift was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

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She entered a one-sentence note on her birthday, writing “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

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The main diary was written from Sunday, June 14, 1942.