Anne Frank lived in Holland. She started writing her diary in 1942. In Europe in 1942, a lot of people were anti-Semitic, meaning that Jewish people were discriminated against, like in the picture above. Anne and her family had to leave their home in Germany once Hitler came to power, so they moved to Holland. Soon after, the Nazi power had control in Holland, and things got even harder for Anne and her family. Soon they had to go to Jewish schools, live in Jewish neighborhoods, and they couldn't have bikes or cars. The picture above is an example of the propaganda used against Jewish people in Europe at that time.
The map above shows how the world was divided when Anne started her diary, in June of 1942. The countries in black were the Axis powers, the people fighting with Hitler, or taken over by Hitler. The countries in Blue were the Allied powers, or the countries fighting against Hitler. The red is the USSR. They weren't a part of the Allied powers, but they ultimately fought with the Allied powers.
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