AMSTERDAM — In a diary entry in the summer of 1943, Anne Frank wrote that she had lost all sense of time. The bells in Amsterdam’s tallest church tower, the Westertoren, right next to her own attic hiding place in a canal house, had stopped ringing. “For a week already we’ve all been a little confused about the time, ever since our dear and precious Westertoren bell has apparently been hauled away for factory use,” she wrote on Aug. 10, 1943, “and we don’t know precisely what time it is, neither day or night.” News had reached the young diarist...