Today in History: Gestapo Captures Anne Frank

As a young girl, one of my teachers was Anne Frank (besides TV ha ha!). Faced with the threat of being captured by Nazis while hiding in their Amsterdam house, she, through her Diary, told me of heroism, hope and faith in mankind despite the cruelties of war and bigotry. She and her sister Margot died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany due to typhus. The camp was liberated less than 2 months after she died.

We still haven't learnt anything from history. Bigotry, hate and war still reign in our day, albeit sporting new and varied causes and hiding behind varied faces.