US Holocaust museum tries Kickstarter to preserve war diaries

Anne Frank would have turned 88 years old on Monday, and it was 75 years ago she received a diary for her 13th birthday. Frank was only 15 when she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but her words, as published in "The Diary of a Young Girl," have taught generations about the Holocaust.

Now the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is launching a Kickstarter campaign to help preserve hundreds of other Holocaust diaries and first-person accounts. The campaign, titled "Save Their Stories: The Undiscovered Diaries of the Holocaust," seeks to raise $250,000 (about £197,475 or AU$332,520) to "catalog, preserve, and make available online over 200 Holocaust diaries in the Museum's collection -- for the first time ever."

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