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broadcasting to her people.
Terrified to lose connection
with the 'outside world and
their only chance of hope,
many ' Dutch people hid
radios, sent them' to the
church for safe -keeping or
gathered together in secret
to hear the promising
broadcasts from their
British allies.
With livestock dead and
the Country ',voted of food
and necessary goods, there
just wapsn't enough to go.
'around., Everything' -was
rationed, and coupons were
issued to the people, but
more than often these
weren't` available: The
country. people were at least
able to eat off the -land; and
they supported many urban
relatives and friends. It is
reported that in the cities
some lived on a diet of tulip
bulbs, thousands of others
died from starvation.
A small underground
movement attempted to
fight the Nazi control, but in
February of 1941 Hitler's
men undertook the depor-
tation of the Jews in
Amsterdam. Their work
went according to plan and
thousands of Dutch Jews
ended their lives in Nazi
concentration camps.
Perhaps the most famous
Jews who lived during that
siege was the Otto Frank
family. German Jews, who
-migrated to Holland, they
spent two years hiding in an
old office building in
Amsterdam. 1t was there
that their 13 -year-old
daughter Anne wrote her
now world famous journals,
Anne Frank: The Diary Of A
Young Girl . And it was in the
Frank's "Secret Annexe"
refuge that the Gestar"wi
discovered them 111 1944.
A year later Anne; at age
15, died in the concentration
cauip Belsen, but her
memory as a sensitive,
brave young heroine still.
lives on in Holland and
Germany. The Anne Frank
Foundation in Holland.
maintains the old building:as
a memorial where Franks
hid for two years. Montessori
School in Amsterdam, where
Anne attended before the
German occupation, is now
the Anne Frank school.
Today in Germany there are
monuments to honor herand
memorials Co mark her
unmarked grave at Belsen.
The story of Anne Frank,
which illustrated the
horrifying existance during
the height of World War II,
has aroused sympathies of
many people and managed
to bring and maintain some
peace and understanding in
the world.
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