Anne Frank's good
- Born 9 July 1942. Anne Frank and her family hid in the back of a Nazi house. By then, Carry Ulreich, from Rotterdam, already lived in secret with his family. In total, more than 30,000 Jews remained hidden in the Netherlands during the German occupation, and most of them, some 25,000, emerged unharmed from their hiding places. Carry Ulreich, like Anne Frank, wrote in a newspaper his secret experiences for three years. And recently the newspaper has been edited for the first time under the title ‘s Nachts droom ik van vrede.
Carry Ulreich was two and a half years older than Anne, she was almost 16 years old. The Ulreich family came from Poland, while the Frank family came from Germany, which moved to the Netherlands after the birth of Anne.
Both had neighbours willing to help them hide and therefore put their lives at risk. But the Frankdarras, in the “backyard”, had little direct contact with their collaborators. The Carry family shared the house with the Zijlmans family. Anne Frank, despite being Jewish, grew up in a liberal environment of more relaxed customs. Carry and his family were strict Orthodox Jews who welcomed the Zijlmans, practicing Catholics at home. Carry thus gathers the debates and theological reflections between the two families, as well as the problems and doubts that this clash caused in a close occult everyday life. For example, Carry wondered why he could not eat the same as the Catholic neighbors when he first made a non-Kosar or Jewish meal: “Today we have eaten roasted rabbit with butter (...) is the first time we have eaten tefra, and I would like it to be the last time.” But instantly, as he confessed to the newspaper: “The truth is, I was fine. It looked like a chicken. Why can't we eat something like this?"
He shook the shock and recognized the generosity and effort of the Zijlmans family. He wrote that they had been given the main room of the house, with windows, and that “they slept in the corner of the potatoes.”
With all these nuances, the experiences of the two adolescents were similar while they remained hidden from the Nazis. However, the end of both stories was very different. Anne Frank was killed by the typhus in March 1945 in the framework of Bergen Bels. Carry Ulreich just turned 90 in November. n
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