The Frank family is arrested
1944 · Event
After 761 days hidden in the annex on the Prinsengracht, the eight people sheltering there are betrayed — by whom has never been established — and deported on the last train to leave the Netherlands for Auschwitz. Of the eight, only Otto Frank survives; his daughter's diary, saved by Miep Gies, becomes the century's most-read account of the persecution.
On these timelines: The Holocaust, Judaism, The Low Countries, Major Religions, World War II
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