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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: No, lockdown is nothing like Anne Frank hiding during the Holocaust
Description: If Anne Frank had survived the Holocaust, she would have been celebrating her 92nd birthday on June 12.
Elly Bollegraaf can empathize with Frank's experience. When Bollegraaf speaks to students in Ottawa about her experiences being a hidden child during the Holocaust in the Netherlands, she usually gets asked whether she knew the famous diary writer. Each time, she disappoints the crowd by informing them she did not.
In reality, Bollegraaf was just two years old when the Germans began deporting Holland’s Jews to their deaths. While Anne Frank was already a teenager—and living in a...