I shudder when I recall the dull droning rumble in the distance, which for us marked the approaching destruction.
Yours, Anne
Friday, 23 July, 1943
Dear Kitty, Just for fun I’m going to tell you each person’s first wish, when we are allowed to go outside again. Margot and Mr. van Daan long more than anything for a hot overflowing bath and want to stay in it for half an hour.
Mrs. van Daan wants most to go and eat cream cakes immediately. Mr.
Dussel thinks of nothing but seeing Lotje, his wife; Mummy, of her cup of coffee; Daddy is going to visit Mr. Voskuijl first; Peter, the town and a cinema, while I should find it so blissful, I shouldn’t know where to start!
But most of all, I long for a home of our own, to be able to move freely and to have some help with my work again at last, in other words—school.
Bep has offered to get us some fruit. It supposedly costs next to nothing (grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peach 50 cents, melons 75 cents a pound.) Then you see in the newspapers every evening in bold letters, “Play Fair and keep prices down”!
Yours, Anne
Monday, 26 July, 1943
Dear Kitty,
