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Anne Frank's diary added to UNESCO register
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PARIS - The Diary of Anne Frank is among 35 items considered to be of exceptional documentary heritage added to UNESCOs Memory of the World Register this year, the United Nations agency said Thursday.
The latest additions bring the total number of entries on the register to 193. The list was started in 1997 by the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation to identify and preserve documentary heritage of world significance.
The Diary of Anne Frank tells of the daily life of an adolescent Jewish girl in the Netherlands during World War II. It describes her life in hiding from the Nazis, before she and her family were betrayed and deported. She died in a concentration camp in 1945. Her diary is one of the "top 10 most read books worldwide," UNESCO said.
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