Wednesday, February 27, 2008

            Today after all these years a Photo of Ann Franks Childhood Love Goes on Display at the Musieum.the story..------------She writes in her diary: "I forgot that I haven't yet told you the story of my one true love.""Peter was the ideal boy: tall, slim and good-looking, with a serious, quiet and intelligent face," Anne wrote of the 13-year-old she had fallen for in 1940 when she was just 11.SCHOOL FRIENDSThey would collect each other from school and walk hand in hand through their local neighborhood."He had dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, ruddy cheeks and a nicely pointed nose. I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous."Peter later died in Auschwitz, while Anne died in Bergen Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne last saw Peter a few days before she moved into the annexe, but wrote of him in her diary more than 1-1/2 years later after dreaming of him."I've never had such a clear mental image of him. I don't need a photograph, I can see him oh so well," she said.The photo of Peter Schiff was donated to the Anne Frank museum by his former childhood friend Ernst Michaelis who realized after rereading Anne's diary recently there were no known pictures of Schiff,