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The Annexe was the name of Anne Frank's hiding place in Amsterdam during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands. It has been preserved and is open to the public as part of the Anne Frank House museum. The Secret Annexe, as it was called in the English translation of Anne Frank's Diary, is the rear extension of a canal-side building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht and is concealed from view by houses on all four sides of a quadrangle. Its secluded position made it an ideal hiding place for Otto Frank, his wife, two da ...

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – ca. March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. A ...

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• Anne Frank - Early life
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• Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis
• Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps
• Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl
• Anne Frank - Publication of the diary
• Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary
• Anne Frank - Denials and legal action
• Anne Frank - Legacy
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Anne Frank began keeping a diary on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, three weeks before she went into hiding with her mother, father and sister and four other people in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam. With the assistance of a group of Otto Frank's trusted colleagues they remained hidden for two years, until their betrayal in August 1944, which resulted in their deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank survived the war. ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Wiesenthal was born Szymon Wiesenthal in Buczacz, Polish Galicia then a part of Austria-Hungary, now a part of the Lviv Oblast section of Ukraine, to a Jewish merchant family. He graduated from the Technical University of Prague in 1932 after being denied admission to the Polytechnic University of Lwów because of quota restrictions on Jewish students. In 1936, he married Cyla Müller, and they had a daughter, Paulina, who lives in Israel. Wiesenthal was living in Lwów, then Poland (formerly Lemberg, now called Lviv, the large ...

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Simon Wiesenthal, Simon Wiesenthal - Early life and World War II, Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal - Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian politics and later life, Simon Wiesenthal - Criticism, Simon Wiesenthal - Honors, Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic portrayals, Simon Wiesenthal - Miscellaneous

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Anne Frank began keeping a diary on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, three weeks before she went into hiding with her mother, father and sister and four other people in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam. With the assistance of a group of Otto Frank's trusted colleagues they remained hidden for two years, until their betrayal in August 1944, which resulted in their deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank survived the war. ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The Diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the Diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Anne Frank - Publication of the diary. Otto Frank survived and returned to Amsterdam. He was informed that his wife had died, but he also learnt that his daughters had been transferred to Bergen-Belsen, and he remained hopeful that they had survived. In July 1945, the Red Cross confirmed the deaths of Anne and Margot and it was only then that Miep Gies gave him the diary. He read it and later commented that he had not realised Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time together. Moved by ...

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Anne Frank, Anne Frank - Early life, Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary, Anne Frank - Before going into hiding, Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis, Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps, Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank - Publication of the diary, Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary, Anne Frank - Denials and legal action, Anne Frank - Legacy, Anne Frank - Anne Frank related, Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related, Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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Despite Wiesenthal's achievements in locating many former Nazis, aspects of his work and life were very controversial. According to Peter Novick and Yehuda Bauer, Wiesenthal fabricated the number of "non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust", five million.[1] A 7 May 1991, article in the Jerusalem Post said that former Mossad chief Isser Harel had written an unpublished manuscript which claims that Wiesenthal, "not only 'had no role whatsoeve ...

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Simon Wiesenthal, Simon Wiesenthal - Early life and World War II, Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal - Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian politics and later life, Simon Wiesenthal - Criticism, Simon Wiesenthal - Honors, Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic portrayals, Simon Wiesenthal - Miscellaneous

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NATALIE IS COOL!!!!!! The first transcription of Anne's diary was made by Otto Frank for his relatives in Switzerland. The second, a composition of the rewritten draft on loose sheets, sketches from her essays book, and scenes from her original diaries, became the first draft submitted for publication, with an epilogue explaining the fate of its author, written by a family friend. In the spring of 1946 it came to the attention of Dr. Jan Romein, a Dutch historian, who was so moved by it that he immediately wrote an article for the newspaper ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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As the name of Anne Frank became widely known in the decade after the war, and reading of her diary shed light into the scale of Nazi atrocities, Holocaust deniers began to slander her and challenge the authenticity of her diary. Simon Wiesenthal's encounter with deniers distributing pamphlets calling the diary a 'fraud' propelled him into investigating the arrest of the Frank family, with the dual purpose of bringing to justice the betrayer and thus proving the diary's historic legitimacy. The investigation ended in 1963 when he located the ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Primo Levi: "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did, but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way: if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live." John F. Kennedy: "Of the multitudes who throughout human history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank." Nelson Mandela: "Some of us read Anne Frank's diary on ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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In the 1970s he became involved in Austrian politics when he pointed out that several ministers in Bruno Kreisky's newly formed Socialist government had been Nazis when Austria was part of the Third Reich. Kreisky, himself Jewish, responded by attacking Wiesenthal as a Nestbeschmutzer (someone who dirties their own nest). In Austria, which took decades to acknowledge its role in Nazi crimes, Wiesenthal was ignored and often insulted. In 1975, after Wiesenthal had released a report on FPÖ party chairman Friedrich Peter's Nazi past, Ch ...

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Simon Wiesenthal, Simon Wiesenthal - Early life and World War II, Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal - Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian politics and later life, Simon Wiesenthal - Criticism, Simon Wiesenthal - Honors, Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic portrayals, Simon Wiesenthal - Miscellaneous

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The first transcription of Anne's diary was made by Otto Frank for his relatives in Switzerland. The second, a composition of the rewritten draft on loose sheets, sketches from her essays book, and scenes from her original diaries, became the first draft submitted for publication, with an epilogue explaining the fate of its author, written by a family friend. In the spring of 1946 it came to the attention of Dr. Jan Romein, a Dutch historian, who was so moved by it that he immediately wrote an article for the newspaper Het Parool: ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Primo Levi: "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did, but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way: if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live." John F. Kennedy: "Of the multitudes who throughout human history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank." Nelson Mandela: "Some of us read Anne Frank's diary on ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The Diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the Diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Anne Frank - Before going into hiding. For her thirteenth birthday on June 12, 1942, Anne received a small notebook which she had pointed out to her father in a shop window a few days earlier. Although it was an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth and with a small lock on the front, Anne had already decided she would use it as a diary. She began writing in it almost immediately, describing herself, her family and friends, her school life, boys she flirted with and the places she liked to visi ...

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Anne Frank, Anne Frank - Early life, Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary, Anne Frank - Before going into hiding, Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis, Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps, Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank - Publication of the diary, Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary, Anne Frank - Denials and legal action, Anne Frank - Legacy, Anne Frank - Anne Frank related, Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related, Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889–August 19, 1980) and Edith Holländer (January 16, 1900–January 6, 1945). Margot Frank (February 16, 1926–March 1945) was her sister. The family lived in an assimilated community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, and the children grew up with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish friends. The Franks were Reform Jews, observing many of the traditions of Judaism. Edith Frank was the more devout parent, while Otto Frank was interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both ...

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Anne Frank, Anne Frank - Early life, Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary, Anne Frank - Before going into hiding, Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis, Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps, Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank - Publication of the diary, Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary, Anne Frank - Denials and legal action, Anne Frank - Legacy, Anne Frank - Anne Frank related, Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related, Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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On the morning of August 4, 1944, the Achterhuis was stormed by the Grüne Polizei following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified [1]. Led by Schutzstaffel Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst, the group included at least three members of the Security Police. The occupants were loaded into trucks and taken for interrogation. Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were taken away and subsequently jailed, but Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl were allowed to go. They later returned to the AchterhuisSee also:

Anne Frank, Anne Frank - Early life, Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary, Anne Frank - Before going into hiding, Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis, Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps, Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank - Publication of the diary, Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary, Anne Frank - Denials and legal action, Anne Frank - Legacy, Anne Frank - Anne Frank related, Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related, Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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On May 3, 1957, a group of citizens including Otto Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation in an effort to save the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. Otto Frank insisted that the aim of the foundation would be to foster contact and communication between young people of different cultures, religions or racial backgrounds, and to oppose intolerance and racial discrimination. The Anne Frank House opened on May 3, 1960. It consists of the Opekta warehouse and offices and the Achterhuis< ...

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Anne Frank, Anne Frank - Early life, Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary, Anne Frank - Before going into hiding, Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis, Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps, Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank - Publication of the diary, Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary, Anne Frank - Denials and legal action, Anne Frank - Legacy, Anne Frank - Anne Frank related, Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related, Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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As the name of Anne Frank became widely known in the decade after the war, and reading of her diary shed light into the scale of Nazi atrocities, Holocaust deniers began to slander her and challenge the authenticity of her diary. Simon Wiesenthal's encounter with deniers distributing pamphlets calling the diary a 'fraud' propelled him into investigating the arrest of the Frank family, with the dual purpose of bringing to justice the betrayer and thus proving the diary's historic legitimacy. The investigation ended in 1963 when he located the ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The Diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the Diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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The first transcription of Anne's diary was made by Otto Frank for his relatives in Switzerland. The second, a composition of the rewritten draft on loose sheets, sketches from her essays book, and scenes from her original diaries, became the first draft submitted for publication, with an epilogue explaining the fate of its author, written by a family friend. In the spring of 1946 it came to the attention of Dr. Jan Romein, a Dutch historian, who was so moved by it that he immediately wrote an article for the newspaper Het Parool: ...

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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl - The Diaries of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Editorial history, The Diary of a Young Girl - Reaction, The Diary of a Young Girl - Attacks on the Diary, The Diary of a Young Girl - Investigation, The Diary of a Young Girl - Film

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Wiesenthal was liberated by American forces from Mauthausen on 5 May 1945. When the Americans found Wiesenthal (who was then 1.80 m tall), he weighed less than 45 kg. As soon as his health improved, Wiesenthal went to work for the U.S. Army gathering documentation for the Nazi war crimes trials. In 1947, he and 30 other volunteers founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Linz, Austria in order to gather information for future trials. However, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union lost interest in further war crimes trials, the group drifted apart. Wiesenthal himself continued to gather information in his spare time while working f ...

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Simon Wiesenthal, Simon Wiesenthal - Early life and World War II, Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal - Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian politics and later life, Simon Wiesenthal - Criticism, Simon Wiesenthal - Honors, Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic portrayals, Simon Wiesenthal - Miscellaneous

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