Today in History

August 1 , 1944

The Last Diary Entry of Anne Frank

From July 6, 1942 until August 4, 1944, a teenage Jewish girl kept a diary. She was in hiding with her family and others in the Netherlands from Nazis deporting Jews to concentration camps. Hidden away in a small set of rooms in an office building, she wrote faithfully, detailing her thoughts of her relationships with her family and others hidden with her. Anne Frank's diary had been translated around the world and is perhaps the most read account of persecution under Nazi Germany. Her last diary entry was on August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the hiding place was stormed by the German Security Police on an anonymous tip. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp seven months later.

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