Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Amsterdam, 1939

Pictures of Anne Frank taken in a department store booth. The posthumous publication of The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947 documented Frank's life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, at which point Frank's family was arrested by the Gestapo. Frank and her sister died within a few months.

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