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The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains. The Secret Annex Online. "Night" By Elie Weisel. Night by Elie Weisel Lesson Ideas. Anne Frank. The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students. Night-Elie Wiesel. Anne Frank Timeline. The Diary of a Young Girl. The Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the only known survivor of the family.

The diary has now been published in more than 60 different languages. Anne named her diary "Kitty". Anne Frank's compositions[edit] In manuscript, Anne Frank's original diaries are written over three extant volumes. The diary is not written in the classic forms of "Dear Diary" or as letters to one's self, but as letters to imaginary friends "Kitty", "Conny", "Emmy", "Pop", and "Marianne". Editorial history[edit] The first transcription of Anne's diary was made by Otto Frank for his relatives in Switzerland. Criticism[edit] Anne Frank. Introductory History to the Holocaust. The Holocaust (also called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended.

During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. These deaths represented two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry. The Jews who died were not casualties of the fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. Rather, they were the victims of Germany's deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler called the “Final Solution” (Endlosung).

Background Propaganda: “The Jews Are Our Misfortune” A major tool of the Nazis' propaganda assault was the weekly Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker). The Jews Are Isolated from Society The “Final Solution”