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Youth Jury

Ana Frank. A story for today

Exhibition
January 27 – April 30
C. C. Aiete K. E.

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Anne Frank is perhaps Hitler’s best known victim. Her diary, translated into 55 languages, has become the symbol for the over 10 million people killed by the Nazis. Her story is equally meaningful today, in a world where racism, intolerance and the persecution of those who are “different” remain commonplace. This German girl of Jewish descent spent two years of her adolescence (1942-44) hidden away with her family in Amsterdam, in the “secret annex”, in an attempt to escape the Holocaust. During this time she told her diary her most intimate feelings, her fears and hopes, while narrating repression of the Jewish population by the Nazi forces. Finally, the Frank family was discovered and taken to concentration camps. The only survivor was Anne’s father, Otto, who returned to Holland at the end of the war and recovered Anne Frank’s Diary, making it known the world over.