Frank family takes refuge

[Asid]

Frank family takes refuge

July 06 1942


The Frank family on July 16, 1941 on their way to the wedding of Miep Santrouschitz and Jan Gies.

In Nazi-occupied Holland, 13-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family are forced to take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The day before, Anne’s older sister, Margot, had received a call-up notice to be deported to a Nazi “work camp.”


Anne Frank, June 12, 1944

Born in Germany on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank fled to Amsterdam with her family in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. In the summer of 1942, with the German occupation of Holland underway, 12-year-old Anne began a diary relating her everyday experiences, her relationship with her family and friends, and observations about the increasingly dangerous world around her. On July 6, fearing deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, the Frank family took shelter in a factory run by Christian friends. During the next two years, under the threat of murder by the Nazi officers patrolling just outside the warehouse, Anne kept a diary that is marked by poignancy, humor, and insight.


This drawing shows what the secret annex looked like from the inside.

On August 4, 1944, just two months after the successful Allied landing at Normandy, the Nazi Gestapo discovered the Frank’s “Secret Annex.” The Franks were sent to the Nazi death camps along with two of the Christians who had helped shelter them, and another Jewish family and a single Jewish man with whom they had shared the hiding place. Anne and most of the others ended up at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Anne’s diary was left behind, undiscovered by the Nazis.

In early 1945, 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. After the war, Anne’s diary was discovered undisturbed in the Amsterdam hiding place and in 1947 was translated into English and published. An instant best-seller and eventually translated into more than 30 languages, The Diary of Anne Frank has served as a literary testament to the six million Jews, including Anne herself, who were silenced in the Holocaust.


Pages from the diary of Anne Frank.

[Don_prince]

Yeah, It made the world look at the Dutch in a different way than reality. Unfortunatly we have a dark and nasty past. In WWII 75% of the Jewish population in the Netherlands was deported and murdered. I believe that is one of the highest numbers in whole Europe. If you thougth that was dark and nasty wait till you hear the next part: the mayority of those where betrayed by the Dutch citicens.

Shure we had the underground forces aswell, and some of the Dutch brag about it a lot, but compare it to france, belgium or take italy or hungary, it was jacksquad nothing.

Well, its hard but atleast nowadays we admit the things that went wrong. Next to the fact that we (most of the time) dont try to hide our mistakes and dirty past, we try to learn from it. Also if you really want to know and understand a little bit of history, search further than your schools history books. Some tend to only filter out the good part...