Weatherday: Anne's diary

A dull and mostly cloudy day, perhaps a few shower outbreaks. Fresh to strong breezes from the northeast.

Humid, with highest temperatures just 13deg.

On this day in 1942, the young Jewish teenager Anne Frank in Amsterdam was given a diary for her birthday. What she wrote from hiding in the German occupation over the next two years is one of the most famous personal accounts of the Holocaust. She died in a concentration camp, just 15.

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