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Anne Frank was a Jewish schoolgirl, whose journal documenting her days hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland is one of the most powerful documents to emerge from the embers of the Holocaust.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's troops took the Netherlands on May 15, 1940, soon after the outbreak of World War II.

The occupying government then swiftly introduced prejudicial and antisemitic laws, including mandatory registration and public segregation of Jewish people.

Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star of David to identify themselves and were banned from using public transport, and from visiting parks, cinemas and non-Jewish stores.

The diaries dramatically stop, when two years later Frank and her family were discovered.

The child died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

The final diary entry, written on August 1, 1944, ends introspectively; where she writes of "turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside," and of "tryin