Anne Frank

In the late 1930s, Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler brought all of Europe into the second monstrous World War of the Twentieth Century. During World War II, approximately six million European Jews were murdered at the hands of the Nazis - a horrible tragedy that has become known as the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living with her family in the Netherlands when Germany invaded that country early in the war. Anne & her family hid from the Nazis, but they were eventually discovered & went off to various concentration camps, where most of them, including Anne, met their deaths. Anne left behind a diary, however, which her father recovered & made public. Seemingly overnight, the words of this young Jewish girl gave millions around the world their first intimate encounter with the terrors of the Holocaust. Anne's words of hope have also become a tribute to the enduring strength & courage of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable inhumanity.