More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of WWII combined. In Auschwitz, an SS guard fell in love with a Jewish prisoner. He saved her life multiple times and she testified on his behalf during his post-war trial. The SS officer who captured Anne Frank and her family became a member of West Germany's intelligence service after WWII. He bought Anne Frank's book to see if he was mentioned. During the Holocaust, a Jewish woman exposed up to 3,000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to save her family. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945. During the Holocaust, Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch was imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners; the losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived over 2 years and 200 fights until the camp was liberated. Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about the Holocaust.



The main camp of Auschwitz was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store.



Anne Frank's father survived Auschwitz and died in 1980 of lung cancer.



Bayer, famous for producing aspirin, bought prisoners from Auschwitz to use as research subjects for testing new drugs. About 60 million Reichmarks, equivalent to £125m today, was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Of a total of about 7,000 staff at Auschwitz, only 750 were ever punished. 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence.



The main camp of Auschwitz was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store.



Portions of Anne Frank's diary were removed because she described her intimate parts. Anne Frank's concentration camp was liberated by British troops just weeks after her death.

Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr. and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year. Anne Frank is on YouTube. She was captured on film while leaning out of her window to get a good look of a wedding. Otto Frank wrote Audrey Hepburn asking her to portray his daughter Anne in the movie "The Diary of Anne Frank". Audrey kindly declined the part. The Diary of Anne Frank is banned in Lebanon for "portraying Jews, Israel or Zionism favorably".



Anne Frank was posthumously baptized "by proxy" into Mormonism at least 9 times. Anne Frank's sister, Margot, also had a diary. It was never found.



Anne Frank wrote most of her diary in the form of letters to a person named "Kitty."



Otto Frank was given Anne Frank's diary by Miep Gies, one of the dutch citizens who helped hide the Franks. Anne Frank's father was an officer in the German army during World War I.

