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Interview with Miep Gies

Miep Gies talks about helping the people in hiding in the Secret Annex.

What is the Holocaust?

Read about its causes, its stages and the perpetrators.

"God knows everything, but Anne knows it better"

Hannah Goslar was one of Anne Frank's best friends.

A typical day in the Secret Annex

What typical weekdays and Sundays in the Secret Annex would have been like.

Germany 1933: from democracy to dictatorship

How did the Nazi party come to power and how did Hitler eliminate his opponents?

Holocaust diaries by Anne Frank and other young writers

Anne was not the only one who kept a diary during the Holocaust.

Anne, from Diarist to Icon

How Anne's diary still inspires millions of readers.

Was Anne Frank betrayed?

The second raid in Amsterdam

Reconstruction: the arrest of the people in hiding

How unique was the Secret Annex? People in hiding in the occupied Netherlands

The history of the Secret Annex

Why did Hitler hate the Jews?

The two versions of Anne’s diary

The (im)possibilities of escaping 1933 – 1942

The German invasion of the Netherlands

The Netherlands: the highest number of Jewish victims in Western Europe

The authenticity of the diary

The diary is not a forgery. Read about the key facts here.