FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944
J Dear Kitty,
"If yoing to the attic, take an umbrella with you, preferably a large ohis is to protect you from "household showers." Theres a Dutch proverb: "High and dry, safe and sound," but it obviously doesnt apply to wartime (guns!) and to people in hiding (cat box!). Mouschis gotten into the habit of relieving herself on some neers or between the cracks in the floor boards, so we have good reason to fear the splatters and, even worse, the stench. The new Moortje in the warehouse has the same problem. Anyone whos ever had a cat thats not housebroken imagihe smells, other than pepper and thyme, that permeate this house.
I also have a brand-new prescription futers: When the shootis loud, proceed to the wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you wont even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magiula to use, with great success!
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
New problems in the Annex. A quarrel between Dussel and the Franks over the
division of butter. Capitulation on the part of Dussel. Close friendship betweeter and Mrs. van Daan, flirtations, kisses and friendly little smiles. Dussel is beginning to long for female panionship.
The van Daans dont see why we should bake a spice cake for Mr. Kuglers birthday when we t have one ourselves. All very petty. Mood upstairs: bad. Mrs. van D.
has a cold. Dussel caught with brewers yeast tablets, while weve got none.
The Fifth Army has taken Rome. The city her destroyed nor bombed. Great propaganda for Hitler.
Very few potatoes aables. One loaf of bread was moldy.
Scharmije (name of new warehouse cat) t stand pepper. She sleeps i box and does her business in the wood shavings. Impossible to keep her.
Bad weather. tinuous bombing of Pas de Calais and the west coast of France.
No one buying dold even less iing.
The bottom of our black moneybox is in sight. What are we going to live o month?
Yours, Anne
M. Frank
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944
My dearest Kitty,
"This is D Day," the BBou twelve.
"This is the day." The invasion has begun!
This m at eight the British reported heavy bombing of Calais, Boulogne, Le Havre and Cherb, as well as Pas de Calais (as usual). Further, as a precautionary measure for those in the occupied territories, everyone living within a zone of twenty miles from the coast was waro prepare for bombardments. Where possible, the British will drop pamphlets an hour ahead of time.
Acc to the German news, British paratroopers have landed on the coast of France. "British landing craft are engaged in bat with German naval units,"
acc to the BBC.
clusion reached by the Annex while breakfasting at his is a trial landing, like the owo years ago in Dieppe.
BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, Frend other languages at ten: The invasion has begun! So this is the "real" invasion. BBC broadcast in German at eleven: speech by Supreme ander General Dwight Eisenhower.
BBC broadcast in English: "This is 0 Day." General Eisenhower said to the French people: "Stiff fighting will e now, but after this the victory. The year 1944 is the year of plete victood luck!」
BBC broadcast in English at one: 11,000 planes are shuttling bad forth