Exceptional a reflective septolet June 12, 1929 (for Anne Frank) by adewpearl

Proud parents dream -- what will be newborn's lot? Typhus claims what starvation had not. Recognized Author Notes June 12, 2009, would have been Anne Frank's 80th birthday had she not died at age 15 in Bergen-Belsen weeks before the death camp was liberated near the end of WWII. 17,000 others died, including her sister, during the typhus epidemic that consigned them all to a mass grave. Approximately 140,000 Jews, like Anne's family, lived in the Netherlands at the start of the war. Over 100,000 of them were slaughtered.

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