Back in 2011, I played the part of Anne Frank in the compelling production of The Diary of Anne Frank directed by Joe Caliva. Words cannot describe the way I felt after leaving the theater each evening. The Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity. 70 Years Ago, today……..On this day in 1944, acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captured 15-year-old Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. They occupied the small space with another Jewish family and a single Jewish man, and were aided by Christian friends, who brought them food and supplies. Anne spent much of her time in the secret annex working on her diary. The diary survived the war, overlooked by the Gestapo that discovered the hiding place, but Anne and nearly all of the others perished in the Nazi death camps.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 03:15:01 +0000
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