Anne Frank & Asteroid 5535 AnneFrank - Oranjestad, Aruba
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The statue of Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim, is located in the heart of Queen Wilhelmina Park on L.G. Smith Blvd. in Oranjestad, Aruba. Asteroid 5535 Annefrank discovered on March 23, 1942, was named after her.
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Location: Aruba
Date Posted: 01/16/2019
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Statue of Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank, better known as Anne Frank, (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. (
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The bronze statue commemorating Anne Frank was created by Dutch artist Joep Coppens. The statue was made in Vlierden, a small town in the Netherlands, where the artist has his studio. The making of the statue took several months, as it consisted of seven main steps. Coppens worked off a smaller model, which shows Anne Frank barefoot and standing tall, with her hands bound and her head leaning back, looking towards the sky. The statue was unveiled in Queen Wilhelmina Park at sunset on June 12, 2011, the anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank. (
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Asteroid 5535 AnneFrank
5535 Annefrank, provisional designation 1942 EM, is a stony Florian asteroid and suspected contact binary from the inner asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was used as a target to practice the flyby technique that the Stardust space probe would later use on the comet Wild 2. The asteroid was discovered 23 March 1942, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. It was named after Anne Frank, a Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp. (
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