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...hauntingly familiar. There are the echoes of another spunky Dutch girl that get the reader's imagination working overtime. What sort of chronicle of deaths foretold would Anne Frank have written if she had survived Bergen-Belsen, returned to Amsterdam and moved back to her secret quarters at 263 Prinsengracht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivor's Tale | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Nazi priorities: first, round up Jews; next, confiscate their valuables. Books and personal scribblings were optional. That is what happened on Aug. 4, 1944 when, on a tip, SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and his men broke into the annex behind Otto Frank's foodstuffs firm at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The raiders arrested the Franks and four others who shared their secret quarters. Furniture and salable items were removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Outside of the Attic | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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