Tag: holocaust

ON THIS DAY: Anne Frank was gifted her diary (1942)

On this Day June 12, 2026 at 16:11

A birthday gift that became history On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checkered diary as a gift for her 13th birthday in...

ON THIS DAY: The flawed hero, Oskar Schindler is born (1908)

On this Day April 28, 2026 at 15:00

On 28 April 1908, Oskar Schindler was born in Zwittau, Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary and today Svitavy in the Czech Republic. History would...

ON THIS DAY: The death of Anne Frank (1945)

On this Day March 12, 2026 at 15:47

On 12 March 1945, in the final months of the Second World War, the young German-Jewish girl Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration...

ON THIS DAY: Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army (1945)

On this Day January 27, 2026 at 16:38

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is observed annually on 27 January...