REMEMBERING ANNE FRANK 70 YEARS LATER – ANNE FRANK (JUNE 12, 1929 TO MARCH 1945)

We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will honor and remember Anne Frank, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 70 years ago in March 1945 during the Holocaust. We also remember her every year on 12 June, as it was her birthday.   

We will make her one of The 82 murdered children of Unit 1012, where we will not forget her. Let us remember how she lived and not how she died, do read her diary and hear this quote from her which will motivate us.

Anne Frank’s Quote

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk], German pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died of typhus in March 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The blank diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

Anne Frank’s Quote

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