VANDALS DAMAGE ANNE FRANK DIARIES 「“アンネの日記” 被害相次ぐ」

Vandals have damaged copies of Anne Frank's famous wartime diary and related books at dozens of libraries in Tokyo.
They tore pages from more than 280 copies of the Japanese edition of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" and her biography. Police have started an investigation.
Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929. Her family was Jewish and faced persecution by the Nazi government. The family moved to Amsterdam, but Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940. The family went into hiding in an attic two years later. Anne wrote her diary there. The family was betrayed and transported to extermination camps. Anne died of disease at age 15.
A Japanese expert on the German genocide of the Jews says the vandalism is shameful.
(Makoto Otsuka / Holocaust Education Center)
"The diary has won international acclaim and conveys a truth that is universal both literarily and ideologically. This vandalism is an extremist act."

◆Jewish　ユダヤ（人）の

◆persecution　迫害

◆occupy　占領する

◆go into hiding　隠れる

◆attic　屋根裏部屋

◆extermination　根絶

◆genocide　大量殺りく、集団虐殺

◆vandalism　公共物の破壊

◆acclaim　称賛、絶賛

◆universal　普遍的な

◆extremist　過激主義の、過激派の

Daily Vocabulary(2014/03/20）

14791.memorable experience(忘れられない経験）
Have you had any particularly memorable experience?
14792.incident(出来事、事件）
There was one incident, for exsample, that occured at a Tokyo subway station.
14793.snap(きつく言う、人にかみつく）
I was standing behind a woman, and she suddenly turned around and snapped.
14794.I understand where you're cominng from(あなたの気持ち、考え、言いたいことはわかります。どうしてあなたがそう思うかは理解できます。）
I understand where you're cominng from.
14795.syandoffish(よそよそしい、冷淡な）
They might think you're being standoffish.
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