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Tillers Gallery "Let Me Be Myself" The Life Story of Anne Frank

Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who goes into hiding during the Second World War in order to escape the Nazis.

Tillers Gallery "Let Me Be Myself" The Life Story of Anne Frank
Tillers Gallery "Let Me Be Myself" The Life Story of Anne Frank

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16 Aug 2023, 11:30 am – 03 Sept 2023, 3:30 pm

Cooma, Unit 9/11 Lambie St, Cooma NSW 2630, Australia

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Together with her father (Otto), her mother (Edith), her sister (Margot) and four others, she goes into hiding in the annex to her father's business premises. She is only thirteen at the time. During her stay in the annex, Anne writes in her diary and gradually turns into a talented writer. For 671 days, the people in the annex remain hidden, with the help from Otto's employees. They they are betrayed and deported to various concentration camps. In February 1945, shortly before the liberation, Anne dies in camp Bergen-Belsen. She is fifteen years old. Otto Grank is the only from the annex to survive the wae and to return to Amsterdam. He has Anne's diary published, and it strikes a chord in people all over the world.

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