This Day in History

On July 6, 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the secret annex of an office building in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution during World War II. The Frank family’s life in hiding, which Anne documented in her now-famous diary, provides a deeply personal insight into the fear, hope, and daily struggles faced by Jews during the Holocaust. Anne Frank’s diary has since become one of the most important and poignant testimonies of the Holocaust, teaching subsequent generations about the horrors of hatred and the resilience of the human spirit.