On 14th June 1942, Anne Frank began her diary after she received it for her 13th birthday. The diary details her life in hiding from the Nazis in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank’s office building and has become one of the world’s most widely read books. She died while held in the Bergen-Belsen [...]
The story of Anne Frank is usually covered in 6th class when learning about the 2nd World War. Anne Frank was born in 1929 and her famous diary is a reminder of the atrocities of the war when she and her family hid in a house in Holland until they were captured and eventually killed. [...]
[Image/Text From Wikipedia] Victory in Europe Day — known as VE Day — commemorates 8 May 1945 , the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in [...]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma and Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations [...]
On December 7th, 1941, Japan launched a surprise dawn attack using midget submarines, 350 bombers and torpedo carrying planes targeting warships, aircraft and military installations on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and declared war on Britain and the United States. The attack destroyed two battleships, one minelayer, two destroyers with the [...]
Schicksalstag on the 9th November is a date of several important events in German history. It translates as Destiny day and has been in widespread use in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. While this event is a cause for celebration in Germany, it is also the date of other events in German [...]
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