And you can always, always, give kindness

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.