Didn't think we'd be getting right into the Jews, but damn, here we go.

"Ann Frank's diary was written in ballpoint pen before they were invented."

Fountain pen and colored pencil. Here's from a link I found on Google, Brave, and Bing.

The document analysis by the Dutch Forensic Institute showed that the main part of the diary and the loose sheets were written in grey-blue fountain pen ink. In addition, Anne also used thin red ink, green and red coloured pencils and black pencil for her annotations: not ballpoint.

"I'm still offering $1,000 to the first person to who puts a history book in my hand that was published in the late forties or early fifties that mentions the holocaust. Such an atrocity outta been mentioned within a decade right?"

Some options:

Printed the year the war ended, Peter Aldor’s 1944 is one of the first publications documenting the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp, with eighteen bold drawings.

Krystyna Żywulska’s Przeżyłam Oświęcim (I Survived Auschwitz), published in 1946, is an early account of the Holocaust which became school reading in Poland.

The many personal narratives published after Liberation, including Simon Wiesenthal’s illustrated account of Mauthhausen (1946).

Also included in this section, published in Yiddish in 1951, is Undzere farpayniḳṭe ḳinsṭler (Our Martyred Artists), a directory of Jewish artists from France murdered in the Holocaust.