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On 27th January 1945
Auschwitz-Birkenau,
the largest Nazi
concentration camp,
was freed.
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27th January has been
chosen as the date to
remember the victims
of all genocide.
o Over one million children under the age of
sixteen died in in World War II, not
because of the bombs, but because they
did not fit in as Hitler’s image of the
"perfect" German.
o Many children and their parents living in
countries, which had been invaded by the
Germans, were imprisoned and killed
because they were Jewish.
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Hitler wanted to create what he saw was
the perfect German, this meant that anyone
who did not fit into his perfect image was
persecuted (ill treated) and/or killed. Hitler
persecuted German citizens who were
Jewish, Gypsies, or otherwise
"undesirables".
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By the end of World War II, six million Jews
were killed because they were, in Hitler's
eyes, 'different‘.
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Anne Frank is one of
the most famous
victims of the
holocaust. She was
born on June 12, 1929
in Frankfurt, Germany.
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She was an ordinary
German Jewish girl
who enjoyed playing
with her toys, riding
her bike and going to
the seaside.
Anne Frank Timeline
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1933 - Adolf Hitler's Nazi party come to power in Germany
Hitler begins his campaign against the Jews
1933 Anne Frank and her family move to Amsterdam where they
hope to be safe from the Nazi Germans.
May, 1940 - the Germans invade the Netherlands
May 1942 - all Jews aged six and older are required to wear a yellow
Star of David on their clothes to set them apart from non-Jews. Jews
are arrested just for being Jews.
June 1942 - Anne starts writing her diary
July 1942 - Frank family go into hiding
August 4, 1944 - Their hiding place is discovered and they are
arrested.
September 3, 1944 - Frank family are transported to the Auschwitz
death camp in Poland.
October, 1944, Anne and Margot are transported from Auschwitz to
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
March 1945 - Anne dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,
from Typhus
Anne Frank is well known because of her diary.
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Anne received a diary from her
parents on her 13th birthday in
1942.
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Through her diary people all over
the world are able to see what life
as a persecuted Jew was like during
World War II.
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Anne describes in her diary how she
felt while she was in hiding, and
how it was very hard to survive in
such a small living space.
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Anne Frank did not become famous
until after her death in the BergenBelsen concentration camp and
after the liberation of all
concentration camps. Otto Frank,
the only surviving member of the
people hiding in the Secret Annex,
later had Anne's diary published.
"I've reached the point where I hardly care
whether I live or die. The world will keep on
turning without me, and I can't do anything to
change events anyway. I'll just let matters take
their course and concentrate on studying and
hope that everything will be all right in the
end." - February 3, 1944
Holocaust Memorial Day is not just about what happened to
the Jews in Nazi Germany…it also remembers the millions of
people who got killed in genocides in other countries like …
Bosnia
Cambodia and Rwanda
Holocaust
Memorial Day
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