The Holocaust Pt. 15 - The Diary of Anne Frank - Authentic or Forgery?

Release Date: Apr 17, 2025

There is a controversy over whether The Diary of Anne Frank is authentic or a forgery. This is an important part of the Holocaust because, for many Americans, this is the only piece of Holocaust literature that they will ever read. There are some people who believe that it is authentic, but who also think that it does not matter whether it is a forgery because this happened to so many children during the war. So many jewish children were hidden by non-jews. If they were found then they were dragged off to death camps. This is were the story breaks down. When Anne Frank was found she was taken to Bergen-Belsen, not a death camp at all. Whether this book was a forgery or not is irrelevant as the premise of the story about children being dragged off to death camps is itself fictitious. Even if she would have been in the east and dragged off to Auschwitz, she would have been schooled in the room with the beautiful Swiss chalet painting, or helped in the jewish maternity ward, or acted in the plays, or played in the band...