Gillespie County, Texas. Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 24,837. The county seat is Fredericksburg. It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, a soldier in the Mexican-American War.
Anne Frank, the little Jewish girl who penned âAnne Frankâs Diaryâ while hiding in an attic from Nazis, was a refugee and her family applied for U.S. visas but were denied. The Truth: Itâs true that Anne Frank became a refugee in the lead up to World War II and was denied entry into the United States. That revelation surfaced in 2007 when the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research discovered a file on Otto Frank, Anne Frankâs father.
By the 1950s, her diary had become very popular in the United States; the film version of her story opened to great acclaim in 1959. As time wore on, people started to question the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary, including Holocaust deniers who said the atrocities never happened.