Researchers using digital technology on two pages of Anne Frank’s diary covered over with brown masking paper have discovered passages featuring four risque jokes and candid explanations of sex, contraception and prostitution. It turns out the pages contained four jokes about sex that Anne herself described as “dirty” and an explanation of women’s sexual development, sex, contraception and prostitution. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anne Frank spent two years with her family and another Jewish family in a secret annex behind a canal-side house in Amsterdam. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images“They bring us even closer to the girl and the writer Anne Frank,” said Ronald Leopold, the executive director of the Anne Frank House museum. Papa has been there.”Anne wrote her diary while she and her family hid for more than two years.

Source: The Guardian May 15, 2018 17:48 UTC