Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with
her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of
the Netherlands during World War II. After two years in hiding, the
group was betrayed and they were transported to concentration camps,
where all but Anne's father Otto died. He returned to Amsterdam to
find that Anne's diary had been saved. Convinced that the diary was a
unique record, he took action to have it published. The diary was
given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of
her life from June 12, 1942 until its final entry of August 4, 1944.
It was eventually translated from its original Dutch into many
languages and became one of the world's most widely read books.
Described as the work of a mature and insightful mind, it provides an
intimate examination of daily life under Nazi occupation; through her
writing, Anne Frank has become one of the most renowned and discussed
of the Holocaust victims.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
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Today's selected anniversaries:
161:
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded Antoninus Pius to become
co-Emperors of the Roman Empire.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius)
1862:
American Civil War: Union forces won the Battle of Pea Ridge and
cemented their control in Missouri.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge)
1936:
Germany re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the Treaty
of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland)
1950:
The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear
physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs)
1965:
American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching
from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were brutally attacked by police on
Bloody Sunday.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches)
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Wikiquote of the day:
"Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world,
and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as
a system disposed with order and design." -- John Herschel
(
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel)