By Anne E. Schraff
Born in Germany in 1929, Anne Frank was once in the course of international battle II. simply because Anne was once Jewish, she and her relatives have been compelled to flee the phobia of the Holocaust that swept the continent. starting in 1942, Anne stored a diary of the tough trip of her kinfolk. See how Anne's relatives attempted to flee the horror of the conflict, and the way her diary turned her ally.
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