30 Faces in 30 Days: Day 15

Anne Frank is a symbol of the nightmare of living in a fascist state. She and her family hid in an attic for 25 months, until the Nazis found them. Makes our quarantine seem pretty insignificant, doesn't it? Anne died of typhus in a concentration camp just before the war ended. This brilliant girl had just turned 15 when she wrote these words:

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”