Stop 6: Famous People

Welcome to the sixth stop about some of the most well-known people of the Holocaust and Concentration Camps. On this page I would like you to be able to explain who Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel, and Adolf Hitler are and why they are important.

Anne Frank was a thirteen year old girl who was hidden by Mies Giep in the Netherlands from Nazis. She lived in a hiddent set of rooms above her father’s company. Her family survived months before they were betrayed and were sent to a concentration came where they were killed. However, her diary of the holocaust is very well-known.

Elie Wiesel is a Jewish Romanian-American writer, professor and the author of the bestselling book "Night" as well as many other books dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of the people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. A Holocaust survivor, Wiesel lost his parents in his early childhood and escaped to France. Wiesel to wrote of his experiences of the "Holocaust" in his memoir "Night". In his later life, Wiesel emerged as a political activist and humanitarian and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for voicing his concern about the "global crisis of humanity".

Adolf Hitler was a German polician born in Austria. He was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, best known as the Nazi Party. He was the authoritarian leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945.

Now that you are familiar with some of the famous people of the the Holocaust, let's find out where you can get more information, at the museums! Please continue to Stop 7 by clicking on link on the right margin!