On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the publication of the tragic diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl from Germany who, after Adolf Hitler came to power, was sent to concentration camps and died of typhus there, Google dedicated doodles to the Holocaust victim. They depict moments in the life of a little Jewish woman, which she described in her infamous diary.
Doodles have been launched in over 25 countries including Germany, USA, UK and Ukraine. In addition, Google released Google Trends statistics showing Anne Frank search trends around the world to show users' interest in the topic.
"Anne Frank" is one of the top 60 search topics related to Jewish culture, and the house in Amsterdam, where the girl and her family hid from the Nazis, is "googled" more often than the Van Gogh Museum, also located in the capital of the Netherlands.
The doodles were created by Google Doodle art director Toka Mayer. The German illustrator said she tried to put her full sense of responsibility in preserving the memory of the Holocaust into the images.
Representatives of the Anne Frank Fonds Basel Yves Kugelmann and Barbara Eldridge also joined the project.
They noted: "The stories of victims of discrimination and violence are often not told. Anne Frank's diary testifies to discrimination and violence. Anne's father, Otto Frank, decided to publish her texts immediately after the war in order to prevent anti-Semitism and ethnic marginalization, and also to create a basis for dialogue between generations and countries.He wanted his daughter's diary to give voice to all the victims of Nazism.75 years ago today, the first edition of The Diary of Anne Frank was published, and today's doodle opens the door to the past, but also raises awareness of the present.Millions of children around the world are still fleeing war, ethnic marginalization and racism."
The Diary of Anne Frank has become one of the most widely read non-fiction works in history. The memoirs of a Jewish girl, translated into more than 80 languages, are today an indispensable tool in schools.
The Frank family was found and arrested on August 4, 1944. The girl and her parents were sent to a detention center by the Nazi secret service, where they were forced to do forced labor. They were later deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. There they lived in very limited space and in unsanitary conditions. A few months later, Anne and Margot Frank were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. In addition to the brutal deliberate killings of prisoners by Nazi troops, deadly diseases spread rapidly in these places. Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she died of typhus.
The Diary of Anne Frank has become one of the most widely read non-fiction works in history. The memoirs of a Jewish girl, translated into more than 80 languages, are today an indispensable tool in schools.
The Frank family was found and arrested on August 4, 1944. The girl and her parents were sent to a detention center by the Nazi secret service, where they were forced to do forced labor. They were later deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. There they lived in very limited space and in unsanitary conditions. A few months later, Anne and Margot Frank were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. In addition to the brutal deliberate killings of prisoners by Nazi troops, deadly diseases spread rapidly in these places. Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she died of typhus.
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