"When people played God!..." is a shocking part of the history of the Jewish genocide, experienced and immortalized by a thirteen-year-old girl. However, it is primarily a story about longing for the simplest everyday life against the background of universal fear. About hope, love and death. About the horror and pain that people of various nations had to go through during the war. A. Frank's story is special, but also one of many.
In 1942, Anna wrote in her diary: "It seems to me that the musings of a thirteen-year-old girl will not interest anyone." She was wrong. The diary of a young Jewish woman, written during the Second World War, has been translated into 60 different languages, several movies have been made based on it, and plays are being staged.
In the 20th century, the Nazis became so engrossed in the role of gods that they decided that some people could live and others must die, and they zealously carried out this divine plan. A. Frank and seven other "unworthy" Jews hid in an attic in Amsterdam for two years. Those who played the gods found them a month before the release...