(Courtesy of Ernst Michaelis / Anne Frank House)
Posted on 02/26/2008 8:49:45 AM PST by barackyroad
On Jan. 6, 1944, Anne Frank wrote in her diary that her image of him was so vivid she didn't need a photograph to remember him.
Indeed, more than 60 years later, no photograph had been found of Anne Frank's childhood sweetheart, leaving hundreds of readers around the world curious for a glimpse. But now, 81-year-old Earnst Michaelis has identified his dearest childhood friend, Peter Schiff, as the "Petel" or "Peter" from the diary … the mysterious boy who stole Anne Frank's heart.
Despite "Anne Frank's Diary" becoming one of the world's most-read journals, selling an estimated 35 million copies, what Peter Schiff might have looked like was an enduring mystery. He met Anne Frank at school in Amsterdam in 1940, and they were inseparable
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(Courtesy of Ernst Michaelis / Anne Frank House)
GGG ping.
What a beautiful boy!
Love the screen name. LOL
Thanks. It’s a new Ben and Jerry flavor
Welcome to FR
I saw the thread yesterday, so I know. :)
Didn’t I see an article posted the other day from the NY Times by Doigenesis that essentially pointed out where she lived to the world? If not for them ........
Welcome to FR. Great first post.
Looks like me between 3rd and 6th grade.
What a handsome boy. Did he survive the war?
According to officials at the Anne Frank House, the record books show that Peter Schiff died May 31, 1945 in Auschwitz, four months after the liberation of the camp, and a few months after Anne Frank's own death, of typhus, in Bergen-Belsen. They were respectively 18 and 16 at the time.
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BUMP
He is just as anyone would have imagined.
how cute he is... how sad... this brings tears to my eyes...
#10 on the list probably wouldn’t have flown as a screen name...
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