(Wednesday, October 5, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Diary of Anne Frank, a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank (1929-1945), opened tonight at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in New York.
The cast was led by Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank and Susan Strasberg as Anne Frank.
Video: 'Nazi Germany - The Nuremberg Laws - Hitler and the Jews N03d'
(Sunday, September 15, 1935) — The Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of their citizenship, were introduced today by the Reichstag at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. Continue reading German Jews deprived of citizenship by Nuremberg Laws 80 years ago today (Sep 15 1935)
(Tuesday, July 29, 1975) — President Gerald R. Ford today became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
Video: 'Anne Frank (The Whole Story)' (July 18, 1945, at 2:53:02)
(Wednesday, July 18, 1945; during World War II) — Otto Frank, who had returned to Amsterdam on June 3, 1945, having been liberated Jan. 27, 1945, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, confirmed today (via a Red Cross list, then confirmation from Lin Brilleslijper, a fellow inmate of the Frank girls at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) that his daughters, Margot and Anne, had died in the Holocaust some time in February/March 1945. Continue reading Otto Frank confirms his daughters Margot, Anne are dead 70 years ago today (July 18 1945)
Video: 'Anne Frank Remembered' trailer
(Thursday, June 8, 1995, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — Anne Frank Remembered, a documentary film about the life of the diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank, premiered tonight on the Disney Channel.
Directed by Jon Blair, the film featured Kenneth Branagh and Glenn Close and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1996.
Video: 'Confirming the remains of Josef Mengele (1985)'
(Thursday, June 6, 1985) — Authorities in Brazil today exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust. Continue reading Body of notorious Nazi Josef Mengele exhumed 30 years ago today (June 6 1985)
Video: 'Anne Frank (The Whole Story)' (June 3, 1945, at 2:47:31)
(Sunday, June 3, 1945; during World War II) — Otto Frank, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, returned to Amsterdam today, not knowing whether his daughters, Anne and Margot, are still alive. He is reunited with Miep and Jan Gies, two of the people who protected his family while they were in hiding in the Secret Annexe from 1942 to 1944 (click here to watch scenes from this time depicted in the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank at 5:35 and 2:50:59, although Otto did not receive the diary until after he confirmed his daughter’s death on July 18, 1945). Continue reading Anne Frank’s father, Otto, returns to Amsterdam 70 years ago today (June 3 1945)
Video: 'Death Of Himmler (1945)'
(Wednesday, May 23, 1945, 11:04 p.m. CEST; on the Western Front and Eastern Front during World War II) — Nazi official Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust, committed suicide tonight by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 25-Reckoning (April 1945)' (May 23, 1945, at 21:17)
Video: 'OSKAR SCHINDLER FUNERAL ENTREVISTA LEGENDADO'
(Monday, October 28, 1974) — Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, was buried today at the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, 19 days after dying in Frankfurt, West Germany, at age 66. Schindler was the only member of the Nazi Party to be honored in this way. Continue reading Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler buried in Israel 40 years ago today (Oct 28 1974)
Video: 'Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List'
(Wednesday, October 9, 1974) — Businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died today in Frankfurt, West Germany, at age 66.
