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How did Anne Frank's diary survive?

Without two employees who picked up notebooks left on the floor after the arrest, Anne Frank's diary would not exist.

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Diego Delso / Anne Frank · Diario de Anne Frank, Iglesia de San Nicolás, Kiel, Alemania, 2019-09-10, DD 22 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

The story of Anne Frank is well known. In 1933, her family fled Nazi persecution in Germany and settled in the Netherlands. In 1942, when the systematic deportation of Jews began, the Franks were forced into hiding. Their refuge: the Secret Annex, hidden rooms in the building of the business run by Otto Frank, her father. The Van Pels family joined them shortly afterwards, then a friend, Fritz Pfeffer.

Food and other supplies came through Otto Frank's most trusted employees. Two of them, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, would save the notebooks and papers scattered on the floor after the people in hiding were discovered and arrested on August 4, 1944. Without their courage and presence of mind, Anne Frank's diary would not exist.

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  1. 2Not one diary but three notebooks
  2. 3Version A, version B
  3. 4From pages on the floor to publication
  4. 5A worldwide success
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