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The Holocaust was a systematic elimination and killing of six million Jews by the Nazi rule
and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933 and believed
that Germans were ‘racially superior’ and that the Jews, deemed ‘inferior’, were a threat
to the so-called German racial community. In 1933, there were over nine million Jews in
Europe and most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would go on to
occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators
killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the Nazi policy to murder the
Jews of Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of
Jews to ghettos and to killing centres, often called extermination camps. Here, the Jews
were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
Anne Frank was one of the over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. In
July 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the
office of the family-owned business.
Anne called in her diary the Secret Annex. On 4 August 1944, the Gestapo (German Secret
State Police) arrested the Franks and sent them to Auschwitz, a concentration camp
complex in German occupied Poland. Unfortunately, Anne and her sister died of typhus in
March 1945. Only Anne’s father, Otto, survived the war. Soviet forces liberated Otto at
Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.
While in hiding, Anne kept a diary where she recorded her fears, hopes and experiences.
The diary was found in the secret apartment and was published after the war in many
languages. It is used in middle school and high school curricula in Europe and the America.
a. Why did the Nazis want to kill the Jews?

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