Anne Frank's first and only love

[AllardChardon]

I read about 11 year old Anne Frank falling for a good looking boy of 13 named Peter Schiff on yahoo news . Very touching article. She was an amazing writer for being so young.

I quote her from her diary, ""Peter was the ideal boy: tall, slim and good-looking, with a serious, quiet and intelligent face. He had dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, ruddy cheeks and a nicely pointed nose. I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous."

There is finally of picture of Peter Schiff that has been donated to her museum by Peter's friend, who is 81, and survived the holocaust.

It made me think of my first crush on a boy when I was eleven. Over 40 years ago now but I still hold the memory of his wonderful salty smell...

 

[amicus]

Thank you. That was very touching and tender.

Amicus...

 

[AllardChardon]

First Love

It took me awhile to remember that boy's name. Tim Anderson and he had a twin brother named Tom, back in the good ole days in North Torrance at Yukon Elementary. It was built right after Alaska became a state, hence the Yukon name.

How many remember the name of their first hearthrob after so many years. Just about everyone, I am sure. It does change the way one thinks about the opposite sex for a very long time.

 

[NoJo]

Yes, thanks for that.


I found the picture and an article here: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20029.aspx

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Yes, thanks for that.


I found the picture and an article here: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20029.aspx

Thanks Joe, what a sweet sad story.

 

[MrsDeathlynx]

It is a very touching story, especially if you read the uneditted version of her diary. There have been many versions of her diary put out, most of them editting the part about the boy out. Her father didn't want that in there because he thought it improper for a girl her age to be writing about such things. But the last edition of it, the uneditted version, has nothing cut out of it. The whole diary is touching to read, a difficult one at times but very touching. *stops now before she starts to ramble*

 

[starrkers]

One wonders if the diary would have had the same impact (or even ever been seen) had she lived.

Come to that, how many other similar diaries there were that never saw the light of day because no one survived.

 

[Emerald_Dragon]

I remember reading the edited version in school and being truly touched. I will have to reread the unedited version one of these days, or read it with my girls when they are a little older.

 

[MrsDeathlynx]

One wonders if the diary would have had the same impact (or even ever been seen) had she lived.

Come to that, how many other similar diaries there were that never saw the light of day because no one survived.

I have a collection of diary excerpts that were written by children during the holocaust, some of them survived and some of them did not. Wish I could find it, it gives good insight into everything and makes you wonder most of the time if the children really were children...