Huddled together with her family in a secret annexe, its entrance hidden behind a bookcase in an Amsterdam warehouse, 15-year-old Anne Frank confided to her diary her anxious hopes for final liberation — for future life. ‘Will this year, 1944, bring us victory? We don’t know yet,’ she wrote after hearing the [BBC](/news/bbc/index.html) announce the D-Day landings on their wireless set. ‘But where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.’ But it wasn’t to be. Tragically, 1944 brought only capture and, a year later, death for the young Anne. While the Netherlands’...