My Kitty, or One Hundred Words

From Wikipedia:

Statue of Anne Frank on Westerkerk church square by Mari Andriessen
See also: http://www.sophiesworld.net/anne-frank-house-amsterdam/

Anne Frank’s “Kitty” probably was based on the character Kitty Francken in Cissy van Marxveldt’s novels, but Sietse van der Hoek suggested she might be Kitty Egyedi, a family friend. Egyedi, although flattered, responded that she did not consider herself Kitty, who “became so idealized and started to lead her own life in the diary.”
(Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090218083653AAgd5zN)

Kitty’s great significance for Anne was to provide a structure for the diary entries. In this blog, I find my own format to be writing messages of exactly one hundred words. I hope to continue to meet this challenge and refine my writing.

Anne Frank's Diary

In http://history1900s.about.com/od/annefrank/a/5AnneFrank.htm, Jennifer Rosenberg describes “5 Things You Don't Know About Anne Frank and Her Diary.” Anne chose pseudonyms for the people she mentioned. Her father authorized use of the family’s real names in the publication.

From: http://factfile.org/anne-frank-fact

At first, Anne wrote for herself, but after hearing a radio broadcast urging study of personal along with official texts of history, she revised her journals thinking they might be published.

Initially, Anne corresponded with more than one “friend,” (characters named in Cissy van Marxveldt’s popular Dutch series), but finally addressed all entries to “Kitty,” (perhaps a character or a real person, Kitty Egyedi).

 

From:

http://factfile.org/anne-frank-fact