A Train Called Anne Frank? German Railway Plan Prompts Outcry
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A Train Called Anne Frank? German Railway Plan Prompts Outcry
Now, 73 years after she boarded that wagon, leaving behind a diary
that would one day be read around the world, Deutsche Bahn has announced that it plans to name a new high-speed train after her.
Deutsche Bahn said that in September it had asked members of the public to give suggestions for names for its fourth generation of high-speed trains, receiving 19,400 responses, and
that Anne Frank was among the most popular suggestions.
Supported by By Dan Bilefsky Toward the end of 1944, after the Gestapo raided the Amsterdam canal house where they had hidden, Anne Frank
and her family were crammed into a cattle wagon on a train bound for Auschwitz.
Anne Frank, then 15, died there of typhus in February 1945, shortly after Margot,
who died around her 19th birthday, according to the Anne Frank House.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were deported by train in
an overcrowded cattle wagon to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived: He returned to Amsterdam after the liberation of Auschwitz and published her diary.
to disrespect the memory of Anne Frank in any way whatsoever," it said in a statement on Monday.
Now, 73 years after she boarded that wagon, leaving behind a diary
that would one day be read around the world, Deutsche Bahn has announced that it plans to name a new high-speed train after her.
Deutsche Bahn said that in September it had asked members of the public to give suggestions for names for its fourth generation of high-speed trains, receiving 19,400 responses, and
that Anne Frank was among the most popular suggestions.
Supported by By Dan Bilefsky Toward the end of 1944, after the Gestapo raided the Amsterdam canal house where they had hidden, Anne Frank
and her family were crammed into a cattle wagon on a train bound for Auschwitz.
Anne Frank, then 15, died there of typhus in February 1945, shortly after Margot,
who died around her 19th birthday, according to the Anne Frank House.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were deported by train in
an overcrowded cattle wagon to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived: He returned to Amsterdam after the liberation of Auschwitz and published her diary.
to disrespect the memory of Anne Frank in any way whatsoever," it said in a statement on Monday.