9 July 1942 – 24 Tammuz 5702
Anne Frank’s family went into hiding in the secret annex, the hidden attic above Otto Frank’s office in Amsterdam. Anne’s diary – which after the war made her the best-known child murdered in the Holocaust – went with her. On the same day, partisan Vitka Kempner, who later married Jewish resistance leader Abba Kovner, returned to the Vilna Ghetto after successfully planting and detonating a mine under a German munitions train. Both examples show the different paths Jewish resistance to the foul Nazi regime could take – determination to survive against all the odds, as well as desperate attempts at rebellion.
Anne Frank in school
Vitka Kempner (at center) with Abba Kovner and other armed resistance members in Ghetto Vilna