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Anne Frank was selected as one of the "Heroes & Icons", and the writer, Roger Rosenblatt, described her legacy with the comment, "The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world—the moral individual ...
Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – February 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who, along with her family and four other people, hid in the second and third floor rooms at the back of her father's Amsterdam company during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. [8] [9] According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. [9]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The museum built around a secret annex in a canal-side house where Anne Frank hid from Nazis during World War II has been renovated to better tell the teenage Jewish diarist's ...
One of Anne Frank's close friends is opening up about her final encounter with the young icon and the history of her diary. National Geographic is airing the documentary "Anne Frank: The Nazi ...
71 years ago today, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam. The Frank family escaped from Germany in 1942, out of fear of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. With the help ...
Anne Frank– author of The Diary of a Young Girl; Petr Ginz; Zalman Gradowski; Eva Heyman - a beautiful 13 year old girl who kept a diary in Nagyvárad (now called Oradea), a Hungarian part of Romania, before murdered in Aushwitz; Etty Hillesum– Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim; kept a diary in Amsterdam and in the Westerbork ...
A fictionalized account of Pick-Goslar's life and close friendship with Anne Frank, titled My Best Friend Anne Frank, was released in 2022. [9] In 2023, Pick-Goslar’s long-awaited memoir My Friend Anne Frank: the Inspiring True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds (with Dina Kraft) was published by Little Brown.