Children in war Children in war Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ( June 12, 1929 – ca. March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration camp system where Anne died of typhus (in Bergen-Belsen) within days of her sister, Margot, in February or March 1945. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, to find that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was a unique record, he took action to have it published. It is published in English under the name The Diary of a Young Girl. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Frank"
Masha Bruskina was a 17yo Russian Jewish partisan that was captured by the Germans along with 2 others for killing a German soldier in Minsk in October 1941. Before being hanged, she was paraded with a plaque around her neck which read (in both German and Russian): "We are partisans and have shot at German troops". She was hanged on October 26, 1941 in an improvised manner adjacent to a yeast factory with the other 2 partisans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Masha Bruskina"
Sharbat Gula (born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity. Her face became famous as a cover photograph on a 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sharbat Gula"
Among the documents presented at the Nuremberg trials by the prosecutors was a small notebook that once belonged to a Leningrad schoolgirl Tanya Savicheva. There are dates on six pages, with a death behind each one. Six pages — six deaths. Nothing else, only brief and concise records and a final remark: ...more on Wikipedia about "Tanya Savicheva"
Vedem (meaning In the Lead in English) was a Czech-language literary magazine that existed from 1942 to 1944 in the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. It was hand-produced by a group of boys living in the Home One barracks, led by editor-in-chief Petr Ginz. Altogether, some 800 pages of Vedem survived World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vedem"
Yitskhok Rudashevski ( 1927 - 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto during the 1940s. He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 which details his life and struggles living in the ghetto. He was most likely murdered in the liquidation of September 1943, probably at Ponary. His diary was discovered in 1944 by his cousin. The diary was published in 1973 by the Ghetto Figthers' House publisher in Israel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yitskhok Rudashevski"
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (Космодемья́нская, Зо́я Анато́льевна in Russian) ( September 13 1923 - November 29 1941) was a Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union ( posthumously). ...more on Wikipedia about "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya"
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