A video shows the text underneath two taped off pages from Anne Frank's diary during a press conference at The Anne Frank Foundation's office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Left standing... (Associated Press) 
 
 A video shows the text underneath two taped off pages from Anne Frank's diary during a press conference at The Anne Frank Foundation's office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Left standing is the foundation's director Ronald Leopold. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) (Associated Press) 
 
 AMSTERDAM (AP) — Researchers using digital technology deciphered the writing on two pages of Anne Frank's diary that she had covered over with brown masking paper, discovering four risque jokes and a candid explanation of sex, contraception and prostitution. 
 
 "Anyone who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile," said Frank van Vree, director of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. "The 'dirty' jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all also an ordinary girl." 
 
 Anne, age 13 at the time, wrote the two pages on Sept. 28, 1942, less than three months after she, her family and another Jewish family went into hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex behind a canal-side house in Amsterdam. 
 
 Later on, possibly fearing prying eyes or no longer liking what she had written, she covered them over with brown paper, and their content remained a tantalizing mystery for decades. 
 
 It turns out the pages contained four jokes about sex that Anne herself described as "dirty" and an explanation of women's sexual development, sex, contraception and prostitution. 
 
 "They bring us even closer to the girl and the writer Anne Frank," Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House museum, said Tuesday. 
 
 Experts on Anne's multimillion-selling diary said the newly discovered text, when studied together with the rest of her journal, reveals more about her development as a writer than it does about her interest in sex. 
 
 Anne wrote candidly in other parts of her diary about her burgeoning sexuality, her anatomy and her impending period. Those passages were censored by her father before the diary was first published in 1947 but became available in more recent unabridged editions. 
 
 Leopold said the newly deciphered material provides an early example of how Anne "creates a fictional situation that makes it easier for her to address the sensitive topics that she writes about." In her diary, for example, she addressed entries to a fictional friend named Kitty. 
 
 The institutions involved in the latest research said that because of copyright issues, it is unclear whether the passages will be incorporated into new editions. 
 
 The deciphering was done by researchers from the Anne Frank museum, the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Huygens Institute of Netherlands History. 
 
 They photographed the pages, backlit by a flash, and then used image-processing software to decipher the words, which were hard read because they were jumbled up with the writing on the reverse sides of the pages. 
 
 In the passage on sex, Anne described how a young woman gets her period around age 14, saying that it is "a sign that she is ripe to have relations with a man but one doesn't do that of course before one is married." 
 
 On prostitution, she wrote: "All men, if they are normal, go with women, women like that accost them on the street and then they go together. In Paris they have big houses for that. Papa has been there." 
 
 Anne wrote her diary while she and her family hid for more than two years during World War II. The family went into hiding in July 1942 and remained there, provided with food and other essentials by a close-knit group of helpers, until Aug. 4, 1944, when they were discovered and ultimately deported to Auschwitz. 
 
 Only Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived the war. Anne and her sister died in Bergen-Belsen camp. Anne was 15. 
 
 After the war, Otto Frank had his daughter's diary published, and it went on to become a symbol of hope and resilience that has been translated into dozens of languages. 
 
 The house where the Franks hid was turned into a museum that is one of Amsterdam's most popular tourist attractions. ||||| 1. What is written on the revealed pages? 
 
 "I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes", wrote Anne on 28 September 1942. At that time she had been in hiding in the secret annexe for barely two months. In an attempt to save what she saw as the 'spoiled' page of her beloved diary, she first listed four 'dirty' jokes. From these jokes Anne moves on to the subject of sex education, pretending that she has to give it to someone. Read more. 
 
 2. How did you discover the content of the covered pages? 
 
 In 2016 the diaries of Anne Frank were photographed as part of a check on their condition. The two covered pages were also photographed then. In fact a photograph was made through the covered pages, and thanks to digital technology the text became visible. 
 
 3. Why did Anne Frank cover up the pages? 
 
 We don't know. But what we do know is that Anne regularly reread her diary entries and made changes to them. For example in one of her diary entries of 28 September 1942 Anne wrote that with hindsight she viewed certain 'things' from a 'new standpoint'. 
 
 A number of times Anne explicitly wrote that she was afraid that other people in the secret annexe would read her diary. This mainly concerned passages in which the people themselves appear. On 21 September 1942, for example, she wrote that Mrs Van Pels wanted to read her diary. 
 
 Anne may also have been afraid of this when she wrote on 3 October 1942: "Daddy is grumbling again and threatening to take away my diary. Oh, horror of horrors! From now on, I'm going to hide it." 
 
 4. Did Anne cover up any more pages of her diary? 
 
 No, these were the only two pages that were covered. 
 
 5. Is this the first time that new texts by Anne Frank have been discovered? 
 
 No, in 1998 three loose pages, with five written sides, of Anne's diary papers came to light. These are included in the reissue of the critical edition by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2001). 
 
 6. Anne covered up the pages for a reason. Is it right for you to publish these pages? 
 
 Of course we asked ourselves, together with the other organisations involved, the question of whether it was right to publish a text that Anne had covered up. After careful consideration we arrived at a positive answer. 
 
 The diary papers of Anne Frank are world-famous. Millions of people have read her diary and visited the Anne Frank House . The diary papers have UNESCO world heritage status. So there is also a major public interest connected with the publication of this new text. The text also offers us the possibility of gaining a better insight into the way the diary papers were created. A major academic interest is served by this. 
 
 The diary of Anne Frank is a world heritage object with great historical value, and this justifies research into it. Research into Anne Frank's qualities as a writer means research into the process of deliberation and of writing and deleting, as this can be deduced from her diary texts. Rejected versions are just as important for insight into her working method as passages that were added. The covered sections of the text are part of the object of research. 
 
 Texts from Anne Frank's diary papers that she did not herself intend for publication have been published earlier, at various times. That already occurred in the publication arranged by her father in 1947, and later in the compilation of the critical education by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which was published in 1986 and republished in 2001 after the discovery of five new diary pages. 
 
 We can well understand the standpoint of people who think that we should not have published the text, but on the basis of the above arguments we have come to a different conclusion. We realise that not everyone will adopt a different standpoint because of this, but we hope that in this way we have shown that we did not take this decision lightly and that it was taken with great care. ||||| Addressed to “Dear Cri-cri,” the poem is signed by Anne and dated March 28, 1942, nearly four months before her family went into hiding in an annex of rooms above the Amsterdam office of her father, Otto Frank. It was there that she wrote her famous diary, which was published in 1947 and transformed her into an emblem of lost innocence. 
 
 In a phone interview from Amsterdam on Wednesday, Jacqueline van Maarsen, 87, said that she had decided to part with the poem in part because her sister had spurned it. She stressed, however, that she treasured the notes and verse that Anne had written to her. 
 
 “My sister didn’t really like the poem very much because Anne was very critical of her, because she left school early, whereas Anne was busy all the time,” she said. “She gave it to me because she knew I was collecting Anne’s things. I would never sell the verse that Anne addressed to me. But as my sister was not attached to hers, I decided to sell it.” 
 
 Thys Blankevoort, co-director of Bubb Kuyper, the auction house that sold the poem, said the price was nearly five times the minimum price of $32,000. He said the successful bidder wished to remain anonymous. 
 
 Mr. Blankevoort said that autographed works by Anne Frank were extremely rare and that only four or five had been discovered in the past four decades. He said the auction had generated strong interest, including inquiries from as far away as Fiji and Japan. 
 
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 “The bid was much higher than I expected and shows Anne Frank’s cultural importance and also the emotional attachment to who she was and what she represents,” he said. “Any item by Anne Frank is very important, as there is not much left. When the Nazis broke down doors, they put everything on the street, where it could be destroyed by the rain or stolen.” 
 
 After two years of hiding from the Nazis in the annex, the Frank family was discovered in August 1944 and deported. Everyone died, except for Mr. Frank. Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in the first few months of 1945. She was 15. Her “Diary of a Young Girl” has been translated into 67 languages and has sold 30 million copies. 
 
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 Mr. Blankevoort noted that the “friendship books” that circulated in the Netherlands in the 1940s were the social media of their time, and that the sentiments expressed by Anne to Christiane were particularly notable because they were written before Anne was confined, emotionally and physically, by the attic walls that would soon curtail her activities. 
 
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 “In our mind, she is the girl who never left the attic,” he said. “But here she is free, with her spirit free.” 
 
 In the spring, a Massachusetts museum paid $50,000 for a copy of Grimm’s fairy tales in which Anne had inscribed her name and the name of her sister, Margot. In 1989, another short piece of verse written in a friend’s notebook went on sale at Christie’s. 
 
 The Anne Frank House, the popular four-story museum in Amsterdam on the Prinsengracht canal where the Frank family hid during the war, decided not to bid on the latest document for sale. 
 
 Maatje Mostart, a spokeswoman for the museum, noted that the poem was addressed to the sister of a friend and, as such, did not shed deep light on Anne’s own story. 
 
 “It’s, of course, very special that part of an Anne Frank collection comes out after so many years,” Ms. Mostart said. “As we have other original manuscripts directly connected to her life, for us this is less important.” 
 
 Jacqueline van Maarsen, whose father was Jewish, survived the Nazi occupation because her mother, who was born Catholic, had registered her as a Christian. The father survived the Holocaust, but his relatives died. She has written a memoir, “Your Best Friend, Anne Frank,” which she said was how Anne signed a farewell letter to her before she went into hiding. 
 
 Ms. van Maarsen said the two had enjoyed playing Monopoly and chatting about Hollywood stars. She said her friend would have “loved the interest around the world” that her writing had inspired. 
 
 “People say her diary was very well written, and I think her work remains powerful so many decades later because of her intelligence and her character,” she said, adding, “To me, she was just my little friend, and I miss her very much.” ||||| (Photo: Reuters/Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler) Photos of Anne Frank at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam in this 2011 file photo.March 23, 2011. 
 
 The Anne Frank Diary is 'pornographic' according to one mother who has lodged a formal complaint over the book being used in school to educate her own child. 
 
 Mom, Gail Horalek, has filed a formal complaint against her daughter's school district over its use of the Anne Frank Diary, saying that many of the passages contained in the book are far too graphic for seventh graders like her daughter. 
 
 The mother highlights one part of the book in which Frank discusses discovering her genitalia, and Horalek has said it is akin to pornography, and is completely inappropriate for her child and her schoolmates. 
 
 She has complained that Meads Mill Middle School should have asked parents to sign a permission slip before they assigned the book to the children to read, due to the content. 
 
 She has said, "The problem is the school is giving the seventh graders inappropriate material and not explaining it to the parents," according to the Northville Patch. 
 
 Horalek has explained that the school has sent permission slips home for parents to sign when they have looked to use various other books and films that may contain strong material that some could deem "inappropriate." 
 
 The mother said, "If they watch any kind of movie with a swear word in it, I have to sign a permission slip." 
 
 Other parents she has spoken to were unaware of the content in some of the passages, she claims. The mother admits that she only found out herself about the passages when her daughter came to her saying that she felt uncomfortable about the content of the book she was reading for school. 
 
 Horalek has now demanded that the book be removed from the curriculum: "It doesn't mean my child is sheltered, it doesn't mean I live in a bubble and it doesn't mean I'm trying to ban books." 
 
 The Anne Frank Diary in fact comes in different versions, with an uncensored version and a full version. Horalek's school district used the uncensored version. 
 
 In another incident in 2010, Culpeper County public school in Virginia stopped assigning the uncensored version due to some of the content in the full version of the diary.
– Only two pages of Anne Frank's diary remain unread—or, remained. The Anne Frank House on Tuesday revealed that it had managed to read the pages, which a then 13-year-old Anne wrote on Sept. 28, 1942, and subsequently covered over with brown masking paper, keeping the pages' contents a tantalizing mystery for decades. It turns out the pages contained four jokes about sex that Anne herself described as "dirty." "I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes," Anne wrote, then went on to list them; the Anne Frank House didn't specify what the jokes were, and because of copyright issues, it is unclear whether the passages will be incorporated into new editions. But the institution did share some of what it says were 33 lines about sex education and prostitution also on the pages. On prostitution, she wrote: "All men, if they are normal, go with women, women like that accost them on the street and then they go together. In Paris they have big houses for that. Papa has been there." To reveal the words, researchers photographed the pages, backlit by a flash, and then used image-processing software to decipher the words, which were hard to read because they were jumbled up with the writing on the reverse sides of the pages. "Anyone who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile," said Frank van Vree, director of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, per the AP. "The 'dirty' jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all also an ordinary girl."