Before World War II, their families lived next door to one another in Amsterdam, and Anne and Hannah went to school together.
Pick-Goslar recalled attending her friend’s 13th birthday party and seeing a red-and-white checkered diary that Anne’s parents gave their daughter as a gift. Anne went on to fill it with her thoughts and frustrations while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne’s father, Otto, published the diary after the war.in a book by Alison Leslie Gold called “Memories of Anne Frank; Reflections of a Childhood Friend.
“She was a girl who wrote beautifully and matured quickly during extraordinary circumstances,” Pick-Goslar said.On June 14, 1942, Anne wrote: “Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends. People who saw us together always used to say: ‘There goes Anne, Hanne and Sanne.’”
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