THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION ... - Fidele
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION ... - Fidele
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION ... - Fidele
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Our evening serving of bread has been canceled.<br />
Daddy just said that he's not in a very cheerful mood. His eyes look so sad again,<br />
the poor man!<br />
I can't tear myself away from the book A Knock at the Door by Ina Bakker Boudier.<br />
This family saga is extremely well written, but the parts dealing with war,<br />
writers and the emancipation of women aren't very good. To be honest, these<br />
subjects don't interest me much.<br />
Terrible bombing raids on Germany. Mr. van Daan is grouchy. The reason: the<br />
cigarette shortage.<br />
The debate about whether or not to start eating the canned food ended in our<br />
favor.<br />
I can't wear any of my shoes, except my ski boots, which are not very practical<br />
around the house. A pair of straw thongs that were purchased for 6.50 guilders<br />
were worn down to the soles within a week. Maybe Miep will be able to scrounge up<br />
something on the black market.<br />
It's time to cut Father's hair. Pim swears that I do such a good job he'll never<br />
go to another barber after the war. If only I didn't nick his ear so often!<br />
Yours, Anne<br />
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943<br />
My dearest Kitty,<br />
Turkey's entered the war. Great excitement. Anxiously awaiting radio reports.<br />
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943<br />
Dearest Kitty,<br />
In less than an hour, joy was followed by disappoint ment. Turkey hasn't entered<br />
the war yet. It was only a cabinet minister talking about Turkey giving up its neu<br />
trality sometime soon. The newspaper vendor in Dam Square was shouting "Turkey on<br />
England's side!" and the papers were being snatched out of his hands. This was<br />
how we'd heard the encouraging rumor.<br />
Thousand-guilder notes are being declared invalid. That'll be a blow to the black<br />
marketeers and others like them, but even more to pe Ie in hiding and anyone else<br />
with money that can't be accounted for. To turn in a thousand-guilder bill, you<br />
have to be able to state how you came by it and provide proof. They can still be<br />
used to pay taxes, but only until next week. The five-hundred notes will lapse at<br />
the same time. Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills,<br />
which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything<br />
seems to be aboveboard.<br />
Dussel has received an old-fashioned, foot-operated dentist's drill. That means<br />
I'll probably be getting a thorough checkup soon.<br />
Dussel is terribly lax when it comes to obeying the rules of the house. Not only<br />
does he write letters to his Charlotte, he's also carrying on a chatty<br />
correspondence with various other people. Margot, the Annex's Dutch teacher, has