“Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think that I am actually one of them!”

—  Anne Frank

9 October 1942
(1942 - 1944)

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Fraai volk, de Duitsers. En daar behoorde ik ook eens toe!

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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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