There seems to be another Holocaust-era diary similar to Anne Frank’s. The diary and love letters written by Helga Deen, a Jewish 18-year-old, to her Dutch boyfriend recently were donated to a Dutch archive. Archivists in the Dutch city of Tilburg on Tuesday announced the rare discovery.
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