(CNN) -- On Friday, August 4, 1944 -- a beautiful summer morning, not unlike the one on which I am writing this now -- a car pulled up in front of a spice warehouse at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Inside the car were an Austrian Gestapo officer and his Dutch subordinates, who, acting on a tip-off (whose source has never been identified), had come to arrest the eight Jews who had been hiding for two years in an attic above the warehouse. The eight prisoners were taken to a deportation camp, from where they were sent to Auschwitz. Only one of them, Otto Frank, would survive.
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Francine Prose: Anne Frank made her final entry in her diary 70 years ago Friday
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Days later, she and family arrested, sent to concentration camp, where she died
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Prose says Anne Frank's diary a direct, relatable window to history for young people
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She says teaching book keeps us alive to history, alert to forces of prejudice and hatred
Because of this book, we will remember the names, the quirks -- the characters -- of the eight people who inhabited the secret annex and their brave @placeholder helpers.