12 June marks the anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929 and would have turned 97 this year.
Her diary, written in hiding between 1942 and 1944, remains one of the most significant personal documents to emerge from the Holocaust. It continues to be read and studied worldwide as a primary account of Jewish life under Nazi persecution.
Among the holdings of the LBI London Library, now at Senate House, is this copy of Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, the German edition. Its dedication page tells its own story: inscribed on 2 May 1974 and presented to Robert Weltsch, one of LBI London’s founders and its first director, as ‘a greeting of admiration and solidarity’. The initials of the sender read L.S. Can anyone help identify them?
