Anne Frank 
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10/31/2022
Texas GOP Candidate for Congress Wrote Anne Frank Sequel Wherein Jewish Teen Finds Jesus in Auschwitz
In Johnny Teague's narrative, Anne Frank asks whether Jews have failed to recognize the Messiah. He insists that his story does not claim Frank ever converted to Christianity.
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9/25/2022
Anne Frank's Next Diary Entries
by Bernice Lerner
When I was a teenager, I imagined that Anne Frank was at my mother’s 15th birthday party. After all, they were the same age and they were both in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. How did I arrive at such a phantastic conflation?
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
8/16/2022
Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank
“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”
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7/24/2022
At 75th Anniversary, What Can Anne Frank's Diary Teach Today's Teens?
by Naomi Yavneh Klos
A project that trains middle school student docents to lead peer discussions of Anne Frank's diary unlocks the power of empathy and experience to impart lessons about the Holocaust and about the broader concerns of human dignity and security for adolescents strained by the pandemic, violence, and identity-based demonization.
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SOURCE: CBN
3/22/2022
Dutch Publisher Recalls Anne Frank Book after Report Challenges Findings
A panel of historians and other experts in the Netherlands concluded that the investigators had relied on poor readings of sources and fabrication to name a fellow Amsterdam Jew as the person who betrayed the Franks' hiding place to the Nazis.
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SOURCE: Forward
1/31/2022
Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Book Alleging Fellow Jew Betrayed Anne Frank's Family
Two Dutch historians of the World War II period argue the book's claims that Arnold van den Bergh turned the Franks over to the Nazis are poorly supported speculations.
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SOURCE: CBS News
1/16/2022
60 Minutes Report: Who Betrayed Anne Frank?
While investigators believe they have identified the person who revealed the Frank's hiding place to the Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam, the revelation opens, rather than closes, questions of responsibility and community obligations.
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SOURCE: BBC
1/17/2022
Has the Betrayer of Anne Frank and Her Family Been Identified?
Investigators have theorized that Arnold van den Bergh betrayed the Franks, fellow Jews, in a desperate attempt to save himself from being sent to the concentration camp.
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SOURCE: Forward
10/7/2021
Anne Frank's Complete Manuscripts Available Online for First Time
"In addition to providing historical context, the digitized edition delves into the material details of the manuscripts, from the writing materials Frank used to the annotations and photographs she added to her diary."
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SOURCE: Forward
9/13/2021
A Fringe Group Attacked Anne Frank; A Writer Reflects on How Her Story Became Central to School Lessons
"Something has gone wrong if the diary is taught widely while our current struggles with racism are verboten in schools. I took a deep dive into how her story has been studied, taught, rewritten — and exploited."
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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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