On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received her diary as a birthday present. An excerpt from the article:
"What happens when Anne has filled up the diary she had been given?
Anne took her diary with her when she went into hiding. It was one of the first items she packed.
•The last entry is dated 5 December 1942. By then, she had been in hiding in the Secret Annex for five months. The diary was not completely filled, there still were several empty pages.
•Anne added some texts at later dates, for instance on 2 May 1943 and on 22 January 1944.
•Anne apparently considered the diary to be full and continued to write in notebooks. She would receive these notebooks from her sister Margot and the helpers.
•The 1943 notebooks have not survived (see below). The two notebooks from 1944 have: one covers the period from 22 December 1943 - 17 April 1944 and the other from 18 April 1944 - 1 August 1944.
What is the date of Anne’s last entry?
Anne's last diary letter is dated 1 August 1944, three days before the arrest.
Does Anne only write in her diary?
No, Anne wrote much more:
1. Tales. Anne wrote 34 tales. About her schooldays, things that happened in the Secret Annex, or fairytales she invented herself.
2. The Book of Beautiful Sentences. These were not her own texts, but sentences and passages she copied from books she read in the hiding place. Her father inspired her to do so.
3. Cady’s Life. This is the title of the novel Anne attempted to write. She quit after a few chapters.
4. Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex). This was the title Anne had in mind for a book about her time in the Secret Annex. She used the texts of her diary as a basis. We therefore have two versions of some of the diary letters: Anne’s original diary letter and her rewritten version."