Deportations Begin

Antisemitism
Early Feb.: The first deportations of Jews from Germany began.

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Jan.12, 2010: The heroic woman who braved the wrath of the Nazis to feed, clothe and hide Anne Frank and her family for two years during the Holocaust has died at the age of 100. An office secretary in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II, Miep Gies also saved the young teenager’s notebooks and papers, locking them in a drawer to hold them safe until her hoped-for return after the war. Gies, who refused to read the young girl’s papers out of respect for her privacy – which she said was “sacred” – gave the diary to Anne’s father Otto, the family’s sole survivor of the war. He later published the diary as a book in 1947, titled simply, The Diary of Anne Frank. It has since been published in at least 65 different languages and is required reading for students around the world as a way to understand the Jewish experience of the war.