Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This Day in History...
August 4, 1944 - Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. They were sent to a concentration camp in Holland, and in September Anne and most of the others were shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. In the fall of 1944, with the Soviet liberation of Poland underway, Anne was moved with her sister Margot to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Suffering under the deplorable conditions of the camp, the two sisters caught typhus and died in early March 1945. The camp was liberated by the British less than two months later.
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Did you know that someone wrote a sequel to “The Diary of Anne Frank”? It’s written from Peter’s point of view when Anne’s diary is published. Look up “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank” by Ellen Feldman on Amazon.com for a summary.
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ReplyDeleteSuch a darling girl, gifted and precocious. So tragic to think she could almost have survived, seeing that the camp was liberated so soon afterwards. Her diary is really inspiring.
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