Vatican Museums opening exhibit on Anne Frank

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican Museums open their doors Aug. 10 to an exhibit commemorating Holocaust diarist Anne Frank.

The Aug. 10-Sept. 11 exhibit, "Anne Frank, a true story," is sponsored by the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam.

The choice of exhibits "ideally reinforces the dialogue between Catholics and Jews, which in recent years has made significant steps forward," the Vatican Council for Culture said.

The show includes hundreds of photos dealing with racial persecution during Nazism and a collection of every edition printed of Anne Frank's diary, which made the teen-ager a voice of the 6 million Holocaust Jewish victims.

She and her family took refuge in an Amsterdam loft for 25 months during World War II. German troops stormed the attic in August 1944, sending Anne Frank to the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. She died there of typhus at 15.

Her diary has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.

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