Poem signed by Anne Frank sells for nearly $150,000
HAARLEM, Netherlands — A rare handwritten poem signed by Anne Frank sold at auction Wednesday for 140,000 euros ($148,620).
In a sign of the enduring popularity of the Jewish diarist who became a symbol for Holocaust victims, the sale price, which doesn’t include the auctioneer’s commission, was nearly three times the upper limit of the Dutch auction house’s pre-sale estimate.
The eight-line poem, half of which was copied from a Dutch book of verse, is dated March 28, 1942, shortly before Anne and her family went into hiding from the Netherlands’ wartime Nazi occupiers in a secret apartment in an Amsterdam canal house.
It was sold to an online bidder, whose identity wasn’t released.