Daily Archives: July 18, 2012

Anne Frank helpers celebrate wedding anniversary in Secret Annex 70 years ago tonight (1942)


Video: 'The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank' (Franks go into hiding, at 1:49)

(Saturday July 18, 1942, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Franks and van Pels, Jews now in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, treat helpers Miep and Jan Gies to a “banquet” in the Secret Annex as their way of congratulating them on their first wedding anniversary.