A look at holocaust through Anne Frank's eyes

The diary of Anne Frank, a young chronicler of the horrors of the Nazis' genocide of the Jews, offers a beacon of hope - and humanity - to the millions who read her thoughts, written while hiding with her family for two years before being betrayed and sent to the death camps.

Reflecting on her life 75 years after her arrest, and death, is a travelling exhibition that has come briefly to Delhi.

"Anne Frank: A History for Today", an exhibition of photographs and archival information, takes visitors to Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War as it follows Anne's journey from homeland Germany to the promise of a refuge in the Netherlands, but back to a German concentration camp.

Born in 1929, Anne moved to Amsterdam with her family to escape the growing victimisation of Jews in Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.

However, things did not go well for the Franks after Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, and Jews began to be rounded up.

In the exhibition's photographs, a young Anne and her sister Margot are seen growing up from childhood to teenage. Happy family photographs and images taken at school, soon gave way to a dark place in their factory - the secret annexe where the Franks went into hiding.

But after being caught, they were sent to the dreaded Auschwitz from where Anne and her sister were sent to the equally infamous Bergen-Belsen camp where they died in February-March 1945, after having contracted typhus. Their father, Otto, was the only survivor.

Recorded are quotations from her diary, a small, red-chequered notebook that went on to contain her vivid observations and experiences, and eventually become one of the world's most popularly-read personal accounts of the Holocaust.

In India, many school curriculums have Anne's account 'The Diary of a Young Girl' as an essential reading, making her story widely known.

'Anne Frank: A History for Today' is open for public at the India International Centre till April 29. It is organised by the The Anne Frank House, PeaceWorks and Embassies of the Netherlands and Israel.