Anne Frank

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. 

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?

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.”

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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."

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."

‘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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Was Anne Frank’s family betrayed?

After 72 years, historians have a new theory.