... 3 years older than herself. In Anne's diary she explains more about her family "my father was 36 when he married my mother, who was then 25. My sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfurt-on-Main. I followed on the 12th June 1929," In 1940 Hitler invaded Holland where the Frank's were staying and the anti-Jewish law were enforced there. So Anne could no longer visit Christians, go ... ! On the 5th July 1942 the Franks went into hiding but it was earlier than they had planned this was because Margot (-Anne's sister) was called up by the police to register. The Frank family chose to stay i...

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... persecution, Otto relocated to Holland, and commenced a food products business. Simultaneously, Mrs. Frank and the girls moved to Aachen. The entire Frank family reunited in Amsterdam by the spring of 1934. For the subsequent five years, Anne attended the Montessori school where she made many friends, both boys and girls. After the declaration of war in 1939 and the capture of Poland, Denmark, and Norway, Hitler's Germany moved to crush Holland in April ... an illegal radio. On August 4, 1944, with the information provided by a Dutch informer, the Gestapo broke into the secret annexe. T...

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... camps. Men, Women, and Children were gassed by the thousands daily. Others died of illness. "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" is a famous poem a boy wrote while in the concentration camps (USHmm). The Diary of Anne Frank is another famous account of the Holocaust (USHmm). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now stands as a place for remembrance of the millions of people who died (USHmm). Islamic Anti-Semitism Islam has ... always had a deep hatred for Judaism. Even in the Qu"ran there are specific references to Jew hatred ( ... anti-Semitic thoughts within the Qu"ran (112). In fac...

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