The book is based on the diary kept by the Jewish teenager Anne Frank while she hid with her family and four others in the secret annex of an Amsterdam office building during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The group was betrayed and arrested in August 1944, and Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen camp in early 1945. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, edited her notebooks and had them published in Dutch as Het Achterhuis, meaning The Secret Annex. Later translations, beginning with an English edition, made it one of the best-known testimonies of the Holocaust, and it has appeared in dozens of languages.
Before and after
- 25 April 1947Birth of Johan Cruyff
- from 28 April 1947 to 31 July 1947Operation Vistula
- 5 June 1947George Marshall proposes the European Recovery Program
- 21 June 1947Birth of Shirin Ebadi
- 25 June 1947Publication of Diary of Anne Frank
- July 1947Roswell incident
- 17 July 1947Birth of Queen Camilla
- 19 July 1947Birth of Brian May
- 30 July 1947Birth of Arnold Schwarzenegger
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- c. 1950sRise of pop art
- 1955Publication of Guinness World Records
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- 2003Construction of Three Gorges Dam
- 2004Construction of Cam Ranh International Airport
The era
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