REMEMBER ANNE FRANK AND THE 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN WHO PERISHED DURING
THE NAZI HOLOCAUST

"In Amsterdam, a 14-year-old girl heard the news of D-Day over the
radio in her attic hiding place. She wrote in her diary, 'It still
seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy tale. The thought of
friends in delivery fills us with confidence.' Anne Frank even
ventured to hope, 'I may yet be able to go back to school in September
or October.'"
- President George W. Bush on the 60th anniversary of D-Day, June 6,
2004


Dear Henny,
It is of little worth what I offer you. Pluck roses on earth and
forget me not. Anne Frank
- Inscription by Anne Frank in her autograph album on display at the
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance

This Saturday, June 12th would have marked
the 75th birthday of Anne Frank, one of the 1.5 million Jewish
children murdered by the Nazis during the World War II Holocaust. The
Jewish teenager's diary, written while she and her family were hidden
in Amsterdam, has touched the lives of tens of millions of people the
world over. She perished at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in
March 1945.

As part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's mandate and commitment to
preserving the memory of the Holocaust, we have created a special
commemorative poster to honor and remember Anne and all the children
who died during the Nazi Holocaust.

We also hope you and your family will be able to visit the Center's
Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, to view original letters (pictured
right) of Anne and her sister Margo to their pen pals in the United
States and to read young Anne's simple but beautiful poem inscribed to
a friend just months before the German occupation of her native
Amsterdam. The autograph album bears Anne's message to a school friend
and is decorated with two colorful stickers - baskets of
forget-me-nots and roses.

Learn more about the lives, hopes and legacy of 1.5 million Jewish
children who were robbed of a future by the Nazi's Final Solution and
about the values they and their families lived by and died for by
visiting our online Multimedia Learning Center.

Please make a special contribution supporting the educational mandate
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to help us reach out to new generations
with the important lessons of the past.

To purchase this powerful commemorative poster, or the recently
published book in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum
of Tolerance Library and Archives, Searching for Anne Frank: Letters
from Amsterdam to Iowa, or other items relating to Anne Frank, for
either yourself, your children, or a library, click here.


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promoting tolerance and combating antisemitism worldwide.


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