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Anne Frank, Writers Who Changed the World Poster Series

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Poster Text: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
The Diary of a Young Girl

Perhaps no book sums up the tragedy and bravery of humanity better than Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank. It was published in 1947, two years after its author died at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. In her diary, Anne wrote to an imaginary friend named Kitty and described her life as she, her family, and others hid from the Nazis in the attic in Amsterdam, Holland, during World War II.

Anneliese Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. Her family moved to Holland a few years later to escape growing prejudice and violence against Jews, but life grew much more difficult when the nazix invaded Holland in 1940. When Anne's older sister, Margot, received a notice to report to a Nazi "labor" camp on July 5, 1942, and a policeman came to the door that very day, the Franks knew that they had to go into hiding. The next day, they began their life in a secret two-room annex above Anne's father's law office.

The Franks and four other Jews lived in the annex for more than two years. They had to remain almost completely silent and motionless during the day to avoid detection while people worked in the office below – they could only move around at night and on the weekends. Several employees of the law firm helped them, bringing them food, drink, and news of the outside world.

Anne had received her diary as a present for her 13th birthday in June 1942 and it was here that she recorded her thoughts, her fears, her dreams, and her impressions of the world. Anne's sadness and fear come through loud and clear, but so do her wit and courage in the face of such horrible conditions.

In August 1944, someone betrayed the eight Jews hiding in the house to the Nazis, and they were arrested. They were sent to various prison and death camps. Anne and Margot died of typhus just months before the war ended; Anne's father, Otto, was the only one of the eight to survive. Miep Gies, a secretary who had helped the Franks hide, discovered Anne's diary and kept it. Otto Frank published portions of his daughter's diary two years later. Since then, The Diary of a Young Girl has been translated into most of the languages in the world. Anne Frank's honest, intelligent voice puts a human face on the almost unthinkable tragedies suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Her book has taught people everwhere about the dangers and horrors of war and prejudice.

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Statue of Anne Frank

Theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller is best remembered as the author of -

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Badges of Hate poster no longer available Jews were ordered to wear a cloth patch in the shape of the Star of David by the Reich in the onset of World War II. There is a long history of forcing identifying marks or clothing on those who did not belong to the ruling class.

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Judaism Wall Poster
“Here, O Lord, the Eternal One is our God, the Eternal God alone, You shall love your Eternal God with all your heart, and with all your mind, with all your being.” Deuteronomy 6:4-6

. . . Throughout their history, Jews have endured persecution. In 586 B.C., the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, and many Jews were exiled from their homeland. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, European Jews face anti-Semitism – prejudice against people of the Jewish faith – from the predominantly Christian European population. And during World War II, more than six million Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in the Holocaust. . . .