A rare handwritten poem by Jewish diarist Anne Frank was sold for €140,000 to an unnamed online bidder on Wednesday, fetching almost five times its reserve price.
Auctioneers closed the sale after just two minutes of tense bidding. The reserve price was set at €30,000.
Dedicated to “Dear Cri-cri,” the poem, written in Dutch in black ink on a notebook-size piece of white paper which has slightly discoloured with age, is signed “in memory, from Anne Frank.”
Frank wrote the 12-line text, dated March 28, 1942, in a friendship book belonging to the older sister of her best friend only three months before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. — AFP
