March: Anne Frank, Dutch, now age 16, succumbs to typhus in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany…
…along with 17,000 other desperate Jewish prisoners…suffering terrible typhus deaths… She will not make it to Hollywood (her dream), but through her diary, will transcend the multi–year sadism and eventual murder visited upon her and upon her fellow Jewish Danes and Germans—and give voice to the sufferings and deaths of a million+ Jewish youngster–victims, in particular.
Jews, numbed by documentaries and books and memorial services, may not be fully aware of the singular trajectory of Ann Frank’s Diary to youngsters of many varied cultures and religions across the far reaches of the planet.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, has been translated into over 50 languages, with 25+ million copies in distribution.