This day in 1942 Anne Frank received the diary that she used to portray the life of a Jew in hiding during the reign of Hitler. The story of a young, teen girl changed the world forever as her diary was published and provided an insiders point of view of the world that was so rapidly closing in on her. After World War II the world said that Geoncide of that magnitude would happen "Never Again." Genocide was a very real problem in the world of Anne Frank, but unfortunately it’s a problem in our world today too.
Today, in a region of Sudan known as Darfur genocide is a reality. The Sudanese army has directly supported attacks against the nomadic Darfuri people. As many as 400,000 Darfuris have died since attacks began in 2003 and over 2 million have fled their homes to neighboring lands.
With what we have learned about the Holocaust and the genocide during World War II, many question how genocide could ever be allowed to happen again, and especially at such a high level. High school students in Massachusetts asked just this as they began a project on Myspace and Facebook to elicit donations to help the people of Darfur and to change their world. This project grew into a network of high school and college students through social networking that has raised over $300,000.
Teenager Anne Frank wrote in a diary that informed the world of the injustice she and so many faced and teenagers today are able to use the Read/Write web to impact their world and attempt to help relieve the injustices that face others half-way around the world. Check out the websites below to find out more information about Darfur and how you can get involved.
students through social networking that has raised over $300,000. 
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