The face of Peter Schiff, described as "my one true love" by Anne Frank in her Nazi-era diary, is to be shown to the public for the first time by the museum dedicated to her life in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank Foundation said Monday.

A picture of the boy, 13 when his adolescent romance began with the 11-year-old Frank, was handed over by childhood friend Ernst Michaelis, who visited the Anne Frank museum with his children and grandchildren last month.

It is signed "your friend Lutz Peter Schiff" and dates from 1939.

Like Frank, Schiff -- who would pick her up after classes in the summer of 1940 -- later died in a concentration camp, at Auschwitz.

Frank's entry for Friday 7 January 1944 states: "I'm such an idiot. I forgot that I haven't yet told you the story of my one true love.

"I can still see us walking hand in hand through our neighbourhood."

Frank called Schiff "the ideal boy: tall, slim and good-looking, with a serious, quiet and intelligent face.

"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."

Annemarie Bekker, spokeswoman for the Anne Frank Foundation, which runs the museum, commented: "We are really very pleased to have received this picture."

The Frank family fled Nazi Germany to Amsterdam in 1933. They moved into a secret annex above her father Otto's canal-side office building in July 1942 after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and set about exterminating its Jews.

The family was ultimately betrayed and arrested in 1944, and Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp the following year at age of 15.

Her diary has been published in more than 67 languages.


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Exhibit ... the face of Anne Frank's "one true love", Peter Schiff, has been revealed for the first time / AFP


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A very wonderful article in The Guardian is HERE

excerpt of article:

From Anne's Diary: 'You mustn't think I am in love with Peter because I'm not... This morning I woke up just before seven and immediately remembered what I'd been dreaming about. I was sitting on a chair and across from me was Peter... Peter Schiff... the dream was so vivid... Peter's eyes suddenly met mine and I...stared for a long time into those velvety brown eyes. Then he said very softly: "If only I'd known I'd have come to you long ago." I turned away abruptly, overcome by emotion. And then I felt a soft, oh-so-cool and gentle cheek against mine, and it felt so good, so good.'

When she woke up she could still feel his cheek against hers, and his eyes 'staring deep into my heart'. She believed he knew how much she had loved him 'and how much I still do'.

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In place of Peter Schiff's final details we have something quite as valuable. Not just a photograph but also a love story, between a famous girl and a handsome boy, and an elderly man and his memories of a fractured childhood. 'We tried to make some very silly jokes,' Michaelis says of the day he obtained his unique memento and said goodbye to a friend he would not see again. 'But instead of laughing, all we could do was to try not to cry.'