Today marks 75 years since the first release of her diary, one of the most widely read personal stories about the Holocaust
The Anne Frank the German Jew and Holocaust victim who became known around the world for her calendar that it held, Google honors today with a Doodle – slideshow.
Although she wrote her diary at the age of 13 to 15, she is one of the most widely read personal stories about the Holocaust and the events of the war.
Doodle contains real excerpts from her diary, in which she describes what she and her family experienced hidden for more than two years. Today marks 75 years since the first release of her diary.
See the Doodle by clicking here.
Anne Frank (Frankfurt, 12 June 1929 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, February or March 1945) was a German-Jewish woman who wrote a diary while hiding with her family and four friends in a house during a of the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Her family had moved to Amsterdam when the Nazis came to power in Germany, but were trapped when the occupation extended to the Netherlands. As the persecution of the Jews intensified, the family began hiding in secret rooms in the office of his father, Otto Frank, in July 1942. Two years later they were deported and the family was sent to concentration camps. The Gestapo ransacked the attic where her family was hiding, leaving magazines, books, newspapers, etc. on the floor. A few days later, a cleaner found Anna’s diary among them. Unaware of what it was, he handed it over to Mip and Elli, two girls whose help to Jewish families was never revealed. Anna and her sister Margot were transported to the German camp Bergen-Belzen two months before their mother died. There, Anna showed the same courage and composure that had made her famous at Auschwitz. In February 1945 both girls fell ill with typhus. One day, Margot, trying to get up from her bed, which was just above Anna’s bed, lost her balance and fell down. In her condition, her body could not withstand the shock. The death of her sister caused Anna what all her previous sufferings could not cause: she broke her morale. A few days later, in early March, he died. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the eight in the attic, returned to Amsterdam after the end of the war, where he discovered that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was the only testimony, he proceeded to extradite him. The diary was published in Dutch under the title Het Achterhuis (The Back House).
The diary, which was given to Anna as a gift for her 13th birthday, describes the events of her life from June 12, 1942 until the last day she wrote in it, August 1, 1944. Written in Dutch, it has been translated into many languages and became one of the most widely read books in the world. Adapted for television, cinema, theater, and even opera. The book gives a detailed description of daily life during the Nazi Occupation; through her writings, Anne Frank became one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust.
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