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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Very interesting story, with some closure.
I bet it would.
I can’t read stories like this.
I don’t get sad. I am so F@cking mad at Germans and Austrians (no not all of them, but, yeah, probably most of them) and anti-semites in general that I am actually shaking pissed.
I need to go find a skin head and beat the tar out of him on principle.
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He would have stole my heart also.
Sorry, I don’t believe it.
I’ve been in enough bars in Germany as a US serviceman (and being a big blue-eyed Aryan myself)to know that the anti-semetism is deep and wide.
What a cutie. Anne had good taste. How sad they and so many died so horribly.
Primarily Schwetzingen in 2000 and various locals before that.
Maybe you hang out in the wrong kind of bars. But give some Germans some credit for risking their necks and giving their lives in opposing Hitler. From Dietrich Bonhoffer to the (”jew-looking”) Field Marshal von Manstein there were Germans who repudiated Hitler and his quack racial views.
Bull hockey! Nazi crematory ashes were in big demand for fertilizing home gardens. The greatest evil of our day is trying to pretend evil doesn’t exist.
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What a cutie!
Awww he was precious. How sad that he did live to be free. The Germans were so cruel and heartless to children.
Welcome to FR, and thanks for posting this.
Do you have a source for this?
He really is.
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