Copy of Anne Frank’s Diary on display in Tbilisi

A copy of the Diary of Anne Frank – one of the most widely recognised pieces of texts describing the horrors facing Jewish victims of the Holocaust, is on display in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi this week.

The copy of the infamous diary is being exhibited by Europe House. The exhibition began on March 21 and will continue until March 30.

Anne Frank's photo from exhibition. Photo by ACICC.

Young teenager Anne kept her diary when she and her family were in hiding for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family was eventually arrested in 1944, and Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.

Photo from the exhibition by ACICC.

Anne Frank’s father Otto, the only known survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to fin Anne’s diary had been saved by one of their helpers Miep Gies, who had earlier helped keep them hidden. The diary was then published in 1947 and later translated into more than 60 languages.

Photo from the exhibition by ACICC.

The diary was given to Anne on her 13th birthday and chronicles her life from June 12, 1942, to 1 August, 1944.

The Tbilisi exhibition is being organised by NGO Analytical Centre for Interethnic Cooperation and Consultations (ACICC).

On another note, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, following the brutal murder of 69 protesters in the South African township of Sharpeville in 1960.

Every year around 21 March, the UNITED network coordinated the European-wide Action Week Against Racism and called on the international community to bring an end to racism, discrimination and intolerance.