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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.
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Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)
Victor Klemperer
German philologist (1881-1960)
Petr Ginz
Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)
Etty Hillesum
Jewish diarist (1914-1943)
Rutka Laskier
diarist
Hélène Berr
French writer
Mihail Sebastian
Romanian writer (1907–1945)
Renia Spiegel
Polish-born diarist and holocaust victim
Eva Heyman
Holocaust victim
Mary Berg
Polish-born Holocaust survivor and author of a Holocaust diary (1924-2013)
Helga Deen
author of a diary, discovered in 2004
Jules Schelvis
Dutch historian (1921–2016)
Yitskhok Rudashevski
Lithuanian Jewish diarist
Zalman Gradowski
Auschwitz Sonderkommando diarist
Věra Kohnová
Czech Jewish diarist (1929–1942)
Anna Heilman
Polish resistance fighter
Willy Cohn
German medievalist, author and historian (1888-1941)
Rywka Lipszyc
Polish concentration teenage camp survivor
Dawid Kahane
Israeli rabbi and military personnel (1903–1998)
Gusta Dawidson Draenger
Polish Jewish activist under the Nazi occupation
Zelig Kalmanovich
Latvian academic (1881–1944)
Chaim Kaplan
Belarusian-Polish educator and Holocaust victim
Kazimierz Sakowicz
Polish journalist (1894–1944)
Dawid Rubinowicz
Polish writer
Leib Langfus
Polish rabbi
Calel Perechodnik
Otwock Jewish Ghetto Police agent and resistance fighter in the Warsaw uprising
Herman Kruk
Polish-Jewish librarian and Bundist activist (1897-1944)
Arnold Daghani
Romanian Holocaust survivor (1909-1985)
Nonna Bannister
Russian-born American author and Holocaust survivor (1927-2004)
Miriam Chaszczewacki
Holocaust victim