Over the years the two lives merged together, and Barbro insisted that her real father was going to come and collect her.
By the time she was six years old, her parents were so concerned that their daughter was 'crazy' they decided to take her to see a psychiatrist.
By this time Barbro began to realize that nobody would ever believe her. When she visited the psychiatrist she didn't tell him her stories. She was afraid that she would be taken away and so she kept quiet.
The psychiatrist informed her parents that she was a normal little girl and not to worry about her. She was happy and just living in a child's dream world. As other children do, she must have been talking to an imaginary friend. She would soon grow out of it.
But she never did.
She became introverted and decided to keep quiet about it. But the memories did not go away.
At the age of seven she started school. She was so pleased to realize that now she could read and write. So she secretly started to write down her memories, but after writing them she threw the paper away in case others found it.
Hear Barbro's Story In Her Own Words!
Man on Earth Publication.
Barbro continued to write. By the time she was about eleven years old, she had written poetry, but she also started to question about reincarnation, where we come from, and where we go.
One day a friend of the family saw some of her work that she had kept, and asked her parents if he could show it to someone with the idea of getting it published.
This was her first book called Man on Earth. She was twelve years old.
Barbro hadn't written anything about her being the reincarnation of Anne Frank at this time, purely because she had started to feel silly, and slightly ashamed to think she had told everyone that she was somebody else.
The reason was that after she had started school Barbro realized that Anne Frank was a real person! The book had been published in 1947 but was only then beginning to become popular.
Barbro realized that it was no longer smart to go around saying that she had been Anne Frank.
A wooden bookcase covers the hidden door in Anne Franks house where they were hiding.
Anne Franks bedroom
Do You Believe That Barbro Is The Reincarnation of Anne Frank?
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Overwhelmed by Memories.
At the age of ten, Barbro was taken on a trip to Europe by her parents. Soon they came to Amsterdam, and her parents decided to take in all the sights, and of course one of these was the house of Anne Frank.
After calling for a cab, Barbro suddenly turned around to them and said 'We don't need a cab, I know exactly where we are, and how to get to the house'!
Her parents were startled, and replied 'How do you know this? We have never been here before?'
But Barbro just turned to them and quietly replied ' Let me show you the way'.
Her parents didn't know what to think, but they said okay, and they started to walk to the house.
Crossing roads, turning corners, until Barbro said 'Its just around the next corner'.
And she was right. As they entered the house, Barbro was heard to say, 'they have changed the steps outside'!
Her parents didn't know what to say, but as they entered the house Barbro began to get a really horrible feeling. This was her dream. The atmosphere was clingy, she felt a tightness in her chest. Total and undeniable fear.
The dreams were suddenly real, and right in front of her. They entered the room where Anne Frank had lived. Barbro was terrified, her hands were cold and clammy, and her mother believed that she was ill. She wanted to take her outside, but Barbro said no.
She wanted to see it. To make sure everything was the same that she remembered, but the feelings were getting worse.
She noticed that Anne Franks pictures were still on the wall, and she excitedly told her parents, 'Look the pictures are still there'!
But there were no pictures there.
'What are you talking about?' Her mother asked. 'The pictures were there, I know they were' Barbo replied.
So her mother walked over to one of the men who worked there and asked if there had been pictures on the wall. The man replied, yes. They had taken them down because people were taking them.
Then her mother realised that it was real. Everything Barbro had said was true. She hugged her and told her that, now she understood. 'You are not alone anymore'.
Barbro decided to wait outside. On the way to the front door she suddenly saw a man in a green uniform standing over her.
She cried, and ran, only to fall over the step. When she turned round he was gone. In fact he had never been there in the first place. It was a flash back.
Barbro's mother went on to become a spiritual Church goer. Her father dismissed it all purely because he didn't want anything to shake his safe world.
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Anne Frank's House
Anne Frank Photo
The Story of Anne Frank
We all know the story of Anne Frank. A young German Jewish girl thrown into the horrors of War at a young age, forced to stay hidden away in an attic at her fathers work place in Amsterdam.
Along with her family on this 6th July 1942 Annelies Marie Frank, or Anne Frank started her captivity.
The small area was cramped and claustrophobic. Living in such abysmal conditions, Anne found her freedom by writing in a diary her father had bought on her 13th Birthday. Throughout their hidden years she captured each emotion, girlish thought and fear, writing it down purely to keep herself busy.
Little did she know that years after her death in a Concentration Camp, her Diary would become the second biggest best seller book after the Bible.
She died after being betrayed by one of their helpers, and on the morning of the 4th August was arrested and transferred with her sister Margot to the hell hole that was Bergen Belsen
Otto Frank, their father was the only member of the family to survive. A few years after the war he returned to Amsterdam and met Miep Gies, one of the kind people who helped hide the family, and who had found the diary in the attic.
After many months of contemplation he decided to publish it so that people could read the true story of their suffering at the hands of the Nazi's. Little did he know just how popular the book would be.
Anne Frank ironically died just a few weeks before the liberation of Bergen Belsen, around 15th April 1945, possibly from Typhus, but the real cause was never known. She had been at the camp less than a year.
The first publication of Anne Frank's Diary was on June 25th 1947. The Title of the book is actually called Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl.
