Autographed Anne Frank 'Friendship' Poem Sells for Nearly $150,000
An image of the handwritten poem by Anne Frank, penned shortly before she went into hiding from the Nazis, addressed to ‘Cri-Cri’ or Christiane van Maarsen, and signed by the Jewish teenager. It’s dated March 28, 1942. (Maude Brulard/AFP/Getty Images)
In March of 1942, just a few months before Anne Frank and her family were detained by the SS in Amsterdam, she wrote an “encouraging” note in the form of a poem to her friend Christiane, or “Cri-Cri.” The first four lines “might have come from a 1930s Dutch periodical,” reported The New York Times, but the last four lines are likely Frank’s own. They go:
If others have reproached you
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