Ann Frank

Now, that's what I call an October Surprise....

Hang on... Wait, what..?!

Let me guess - The fourth volume of the four, implicitly, would be the one covering the Auschwitz / Bergen-Belsen narrative...

It is a historical fact, disputed by absolutely no-one, that not only did Ann Frank survive Auschwitz, her entire family evaded selection for the gas chambers.

As can best be established, she died in January or Feburary of 1945 in Belsen, victim of an epidemic of Typhus.

Regarding how this happened, I quote The Enemy:

"In the chaos that marked the unloading of the trains, the men were forcibly separated from the women and children, and Otto Frank was wrenched from his family. Of the 1,019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than 15—were sent directly to the gas chambers. Anne Frank had turned 15 three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival, and never learned that the entire group from the Achterhuis had survived this selection. [My emphasis] She reasoned that her father, in his mid-fifties and not particularly robust, had been killed immediately after they were separated."

So, just to clarify; none of the Jews deported from Amsterdam with the Franks to Auschwitz was sent to the gas chamber - none of them.

I quote The Enemy:

"Bíró László József (surname placed first per Hungarian convention; Spanish: Ladislao José Biro; 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.

Bíró (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbiːroː]) was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1899 into a Jewish family. He presented the first production of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931.

While working as a journalist in Hungary, he noticed that the ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free. He tried using the same ink in a fountain pen but found that it would not flow into the tip, as it was too viscous. Working with his brother György, a chemist, he developed a new tip consisting of a ball that was free to turn in a socket, and as it turned it would pick up ink from a cartridge and then roll to deposit it on the paper. Bíró patented the invention in Paris in 1938.

In 1943 the brothers moved to Argentina. On 10 June they filed another patent, that issued in the USA as US Patent 2,390,636 and formed Biro Pens of Argentina (in fact, in Argentina the ballpoint pen is known as birome). This new design was licensed for production in the United Kingdom for supply to Royal Air Force aircrew, who found they worked much better than fountain pens at high altitude.

In 1945 Marcel Bich bought the patent from Bíró for the pen, which soon became the main product of his Bic company."

"The following is the passage from the The Definitive Edition of the Diary of a Young Girl that has a mother in Northville filing a formal complaint. 

'Until I was eleven or twelve, I didn't realize there was a second set of labia on the inside, since you couldn't see them. What's even funnier is that I thought urine came out of the clitoris…When you're standing up, all you see from the front is hair. Between your legs there are two soft, cushiony things, also covered with hair, which press together when you're standing, so you can't see what's inside. They separate when you sit down and they're very red and quite fleshy on the inside. In the upper part, between the outer labia, there's a fold of skin that, on second thought, looks like a kind of blister. That's the clitoris.'"