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“Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?”

Quote by Anne Frank

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Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929, was a renowned Jewish author. Her diary, 'The Diary of a Young Girl,' is a testament to the sufferings of Jews during World War II and a classic in world literature. She and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam hiding place during the war, and her diary, written during this time, later became widely read. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. more

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