Anne Frank’s father managed to publish his daughter’s diary in 1947 recounting the daily life of a Jewish girl hidden from the danger of death. It was 75 years of readings in schools and debates about the price that children pay in a warbut today the world is home to nearly 37 million children who have fled conflict and violence.
On June 25, 1947, the first Dutch version of Anne Frank’s diary was published in the Netherlands under the title “Het Achterhuis” (The Secret Annex), a book that was later translated into more than 70 languages and, Like in Spain, it became part of the school curriculum readings as a testimony to the Jewish Holocaust.
Love, friendship, ambitions, dreams, intimacy, her perception of the war, the suffering of not being able to go out were topics that the young woman dealt with honestly in the pages of her diary, a book that sold 36 million copies these 75 years.
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Annelies Marie, her real name, was born in Frankfurt (Germany) and would have turned 93 this month. She received the diary from her as a present on her 13th birthday, she picked it out herself at the bookstore, and before she started to fill in her pages, she wrote on the cover: “I hope I can trust you with everything, as I have never been able to trust anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” That was on June 12, 1942, and on July 6 he hid in the Secret Annex.
Conclusive evidence is still lacking on how the address of the hideout came into the hands of the Gestapo.
The address of the hideout, a warehouse extension at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, came into the hands of a German SS officer, who ordered his people to go on August 4, 1944 to arrest the Frank family, but conclusive evidence is still lacking on how the leadership came into the hands of the Gestapo.
Who betrayed Anne Frank?
Last January, an international team led by former FBI agent Vince Pankoke published a controversial theory in a book that pointed to Arnold van den Bergh, a Jewish notary from Amsterdam and member of the Jewish Council, as thethe person who revealed the girl’s hiding place to the Nazis, in exchange for protection for his own family.
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One of the pieces of evidence they showed was an anonymous note delivered in 1945 to Otto, who, they say, knew the identity of the person who betrayed them, butro hid the data for fear of post-war anti-Semitism.
“Arnold’s name was already there. A detective put in his report that Otto had given him the note and his name was mentioned by other authors. We knew this allegation existed, but we were shocked that it was not followed up on. All the information was coming together at the end of 2019 we were able to seriously rule out most of the suspects”, Pankoke explained to Efe.
But the criticism only multiplied, until the book’s Dutch publisher, Ambo Anthos, withdrew it.
“At a time when anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and distortion are on the rise, such potentially inflammatory claims should have followed a critical review process by qualified experts before being considered for publication,” denounced the European Jewish Congress.
Children, victims of war
Anne Frank died of typhus in February 1945. in the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen (Germany) and his father, the only survivor of the family, found the diary later and published it as an important testimony of the pain of the Holocaust. “How proud Anne would have been if she had lived to see this,” Otto wrote afterwards.
Anne Frank died of typhus in February 1945, in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp (Germany).
It’s been 77 years since the end of World War IIbut children continue to be one of the great victims of strife throughout the world.
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Conflict and violence left a record 36.5 million children displaced by the end of 2021, according to UNICEF estimates. To this figure must be added those displaced by climatic and environmental impacts, but also more than 5 million minor victims of the war in Ukraine, the last conflict to break out in the world.
The number includes children who are forced to live far from home due to protracted conflicts such as those in Afghanistan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Yemen. The global refugee population has more than doubled in the last decade, with children accounting for almost half of the total, when they make up a third of the total world population.
EFE
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