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Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

By Gregory Krieg, CNN

Updated 1844 GMT (0244 HKT) February 24, 2016

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Friday, August 1, marks the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank's final diary entry. Three days later, she was arrested with her family in the "secret annex" of a house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where they had hidden for two years. She later died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when she was 15. In her diary, Anne describes a<strong> </strong>1942 picture of herself: "This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood." Click through the gallery to see other pages from her diary:
Photos: Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write
Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – Friday, August 1, marks the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank's final diary entry. Three days later, she was arrested with her family in the "secret annex" of a house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where they had hidden for two years. She later died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when she was 15. In her diary, Anne describes a 1942 picture of herself: "This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood." Click through the gallery to see other pages from her diary:
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For her 13th birthday, Anne Frank received a red plaid diary, her first journal. She brought it with her into hiding and began writing in it in 1942. After her death, her father, Otto Frank, edited and compiled the diary. It was published in the Netherlands in 1947 as "The Secret Annex. Diary Letters From June 14, 1942, to August 1, 1944."
Photos: Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write
Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – For her 13th birthday, Anne Frank received a red plaid diary, her first journal. She brought it with her into hiding and began writing in it in 1942. After her death, her father, Otto Frank, edited and compiled the diary. It was published in the Netherlands in 1947 as "The Secret Annex. Diary Letters From June 14, 1942, to August 1, 1944."
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Pages with text and photos from Anne Frank's diary, written in October 1942.
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – Pages with text and photos from Anne Frank's diary, written in October 1942.
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A handwritten page of Anne Frank's diary includes photos of herself on the beach during a holiday with her sister, Margot. The two sisters would live hidden in the annex with their mother, Edith; father, Otto; and another family.
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – A handwritten page of Anne Frank's diary includes photos of herself on the beach during a holiday with her sister, Margot. The two sisters would live hidden in the annex with their mother, Edith; father, Otto; and another family.
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Two pages, written in 1942, from the diary. "Her inner life and her voice seem almost shockingly contemporary, astonishingly similar to the voices of the teenagers we know," says Francine Prose, author of "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife."
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – Two pages, written in 1942, from the diary. "Her inner life and her voice seem almost shockingly contemporary, astonishingly similar to the voices of the teenagers we know," says Francine Prose, author of "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife."
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When her diary was almost full, Anne continued writing, using several notebooks. In 1944, she decided to rewrite her diary entries in the form of a novel, intending to publish it after the war, according to curators at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Shown here are the different versions of her diary, known now as versions A, B and C.
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – When her diary was almost full, Anne continued writing, using several notebooks. In 1944, she decided to rewrite her diary entries in the form of a novel, intending to publish it after the war, according to curators at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Shown here are the different versions of her diary, known now as versions A, B and C.
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"The Diary of Anne Frank" has been translated into more than 70 languages in more than 60 nations.
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – "The Diary of Anne Frank" has been translated into more than 70 languages in more than 60 nations.
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Anne Frank in 1941. Her diary is often many young people's introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Anne Frank: The girl who wanted to write – Anne Frank in 1941. Her diary is often many young people's introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust.
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  • Eva Schloss says Trump is behaving "like another Hitler" and "inciting racism"
  • Schloss' mother married Anne Frank's father after World War II

(CNN)In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank's stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Eva Schloss, now 86, was a friend of Frank's in Amsterdam after their families fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Her mother, Fritzi, would marry Otto Frank, Anne's father, after World War II.
"If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster," she told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Schloss survived Auschwitz, where Frank's mother died. Anne Frank perished at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her diary becoming a famous account of life as a Jewish family in Hitler's Nazi Germany.
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    Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees' experience in 2016 "to what we went through" in Nazi-controlled Europe.
    "I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961," Schloss said. "And now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It's absurd."
    Trump has been compared to the Nazi leader before, both by political opponents in America and critics abroad.
    In November, Jeb Bush adviser Max Boot tweeted that the GOP front-runner "is a fascist," while a British newspaper asked its readers in December, "Who Said It: Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler?"
    "If you go and look at your history and you read your history in the lead-up to the Second World War, this is the kind of rhetoric that allowed Hitler to move forward," former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, told CNN on December 9, after Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the U.S. "Because you have people who were scared the economy was bad, they want someone to blame."
    Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the location where Anne Frank's mother died. It was at Auschwitz.