Anne Frank

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  June 25, 2019
  

  ‘A kind of creeping oppression’: Anne Frank’s haunting newly published letters to her grandmother

  by Michael S. Rosenwald

  Revealing new letters from Anne Frank before she went into hiding. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  6/11/2019
  

  Ahead of Anne Frank's 90th birthday, trove of her father's letters to be digitized

  As Anne Frank's 90th birthday approaches, historian Edna Friedberg said it's important to remember the sacrifices Otto Frank and others made to keep her legacy alive.

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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/19
  

  Unseen Anne Frank letters illuminate life before confinement

  Translated into English for the first time, letters to grandmother and others reveal context of birthdays, boys and braces as well as the rising Nazi menace.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7-6-18
  

  Anne Frank's family tried to escape to U.S. but hit roadblocks

  Documents indicate Anne's father Otto tried twice to collect the papers needed to obtain visas for the United States.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-15-18
  

  Researchers Uncover Two Hidden Pages in Anne Frank’s Diary

  Anne Frank tried to cover up two pages of writing in her diary that contained dirty jokes and a description of what she referred to as “sexual matters,” pasting brown paper over the pages in her red-and-white plaid notebook.

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• SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor
  10-25-17
  

  Italy uses Anne Frank's diary to combat anti-Semitism at sports games

  After anti-Semitic stickers were strewn around Italian soccer club Lazio's stadium, the team and the Italian soccer federation are taking steps to combat racism and anti-Semitism at games, including reading a passage aloud from Anne Frank's diary before matches.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6-14-17
  

  How Anne Frank's Diary Survived

  70 years after its publication and her death, the story is being commemorated in a new edition published by LIFE.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-21-17
  

  Anne Frank Who? Museums Combat Ignorance About the Holocaust

  The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is one of several museums making changes to engage and educate younger people about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-17-16
  

  Was Anne Frank’s family betrayed?

  After 72 years, historians have a new theory.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1-2-16
  

  Protecting Anne Frank's Voice — Even 7 Decades Later

  by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

  If Otto is now seen as a co-author, how does this impact the authenticity of Anne’s original voice and the legitimacy of the diary?

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  11-25-15
  

  Anne Frank Faced Challenges Similar to Syrian Refugees, Richard Breitman Says

  "The State Department determined that anyone who had close relatives in Germany, the Soviet Union or fascist Italy were a security threat, and even though Otto and Anne were in the Netherlands."

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-27-14
  

  Israel donates Anne Frank books to Tokyo libraries

  Israel's embassy in Japan has donated more than 300 Anne Frank-related books to public libraries in Tokyo, after many were found vandalised.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  2-4-14
  

  Toys belonging to Anne Frank discovered, to be put on display

  Woman finds marbles, a doll's tea service and a book given to her for safekeeping by the Jewish girl in 1942.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-24-13
  

  Saplings from tree outside Anne Frank’s hiding spot take root at schools, museums, parks in U.S.

  INDIANAPOLIS — Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being distributed to 11 locations in the United States as part of a project that aims to preserve her legacy and promote tolerance.The tree, one of the Jewish teenager’s only connections to nature while she hid with her family in a Secret Annex in her father’s company building, was diseased and rotted through the trunk when wind and heavy rain toppled it in August 2010. But saplings grown from its seeds will be planted starting in April, when the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis will put the first one in the ground....