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Anne Frank's toy marbles go on display in Rotterdam

February 5, 2014 10:54
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Charlotte Oliver,

Charlotte Oliver

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A tin of marbles belonging to Anne Frank has gone on display for the first time, 70 years after she entrusted it to a friend for safekeeping.

The young diarist left the marbles, along with other treasured items, to her non-Jewish neighbour Toosje Kupers when her family went into hiding in 1942.

They took refuge in an attic in Amsterdam, but were soon found by German authorities and sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died of typhus aged 15 in 1945.

According to Ms Kupers, 83, she offered the items to Anne’s father, Otto Frank - the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust - when the war ended, but he said she could keep the marbles.

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