July 6, 1942 - Anne Frank - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family hide from Nazis in Amsterdam. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 to parents Otto and Edith Frank. After Anne and her older sister Margot were born in Germany, the family moved to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape Nazi prosecution. Unfortunately, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and caught up with the Franks two years later. When served notice that they would be deported to a labour camp, Margot and Otto gathered the family together and went into hiding on July 6, 1942. There, in an annex of Otto’s business at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, they huddled with another Jewish family, the van Pels, for 25 months. In August 1944, someone betrayed the group, and they were arrested. The two families were sent by sealed cattle car to Auschwitz on September 3, 1944. Hermann van Pels was gassed at Auschwitz three days later. Anne and Margot died within days of one another a few months after that at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Otto was the only one to survive. Anne received a diary for her 13th birthday, just days before the family went into hiding. In it she kept a journal of their daily life. When Anne’s broken-hearted father found her diary, he had it published. Little did he imagine how widely it would be read and what an influence it would have on the world. The Diary of Anne Frank has been published in more than 55 languages around the world with exhibits and even Broadway plays telling her story.

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