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—— ON THIS DAY ——
AUGUST 4, 1944
Amsterdam, Netherlands
82 years ago
The Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank and seven others hid from the Nazis until their discovery and arrest on August 4, 1944.
On the warm, sunny morning of August 4, 1944, a small group of German and Dutch police arrived at the tall canal house at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. Behind a hinged bookcase on an upper floor, eight Jewish people had been hiding for more than two years. Among them was a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank, who had spent the 761 days of their concealment recording her life, her fears, and her hopes in a diary. That morning the hiding ended. The eight were arrested, along with two of the helpers who had risked their lives to sustain them.
The Franks had gone into hiding in July 1942 to escape deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Anne's father Otto had prepared the annex above his business premises, and with the help of a few trusted employees the family, another Jewish family, and a single man lived in the cramped, blacked-out rooms, never flushing the toilet by day, listening to the war on a hidden radio, and depending entirely on the courage of others for food and survival.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal Anne Frank kept in hiding, rescued from the annex floor after the arrest and published by her father after the war to become one of the most widely read books in the world.
It has never been fully established how the hiding place was betrayed, or whether it was betrayed at all rather than stumbled upon during an investigation into other matters. Otto Frank and his surviving helpers always suspected an informer, but no one was ever conclusively identified, and the question still occupies researchers today. What is certain is that after the raid the eight were sent first to a transit camp and then, on one of the last transports to leave the Netherlands, to Auschwitz.
Anne and her sister Margot were later moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where both died of typhus in early 1945, only weeks before the camp was liberated. Their mother Edith died at Auschwitz. Of the eight who had hidden in the annex, only Otto Frank survived the war. When he returned to Amsterdam, one of the helpers, Miep Gies, gave him the diary and papers she had gathered from the annex floor and kept safe, unread, in the hope of returning them to Anne.
Otto edited and published the diary in 1947. It has since been translated into dozens of languages and read by tens of millions of people, becoming one of the most powerful and intimate accounts of the Holocaust ever written. In Anne's pages the abstraction of six million murdered Jews becomes a single vivid, funny, frightened, hopeful adolescent voice. The bookcase swung open and the hiding ended, but the diary she left behind outlived the regime that killed her.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
The diary gave the Holocaust a single human voice. By recording her ordinary hopes and fears with extraordinary clarity, Anne Frank made the scale of the Nazi genocide comprehensible in a way that statistics never could. Her words have introduced generations of readers to the human reality behind the numbers.
The arrest illustrates how survival depended on the courage of others. The Franks lived as long as they did only because ordinary people risked their lives to hide and feed them. The story is at once a record of persecution and a testament to the individuals who resisted it at great personal danger.
The unresolved question of the betrayal endures. Decades of investigation have never conclusively established how the annex was discovered. The mystery has become part of the story's enduring hold, a reminder of how much about the Holocaust remains painfully uncertain.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On August 4, 1944, police swung open a bookcase in Amsterdam and ended 761 days of hiding. Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen months later, at fifteen. Her father survived, published the diary she left behind, and gave the Holocaust a voice that has never fallen silent.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about Anne Frank, the Secret Annex, the arrest of August 4, 1944, the fate of those who hid there, and the survival of her diary?
