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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

Diary of Anne Frank

Young adults visit 'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)
January 25, 2025, 1:19 am
NYC replica of famed Anne Frank House amplifies humanity of those murdered by Nazis
Reproduction of tiny Amsterdam annex where young diarist hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Jordan Hoffman
(L-R) Demonstrators waved Nazi flags across the street from a community theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Howell, Michigan, Nov. 9, 2024; the group then moved onto nearby Fowlerville, Michigan. (Screenshots via American Legion Howell and WLNS News via JTA, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 12, 2024, 11:44 pm
Masked neo-Nazi protesters target Michigan production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ play
5 demonstrators with swastika flags reportedly chant pro-Trump slogan outside community theater production in small town of Howell, near Lansing; audience told during intermission
By Andrew Lapin
A man holds a copy of the graphic novel version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", by Israeli writer-director Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, in Paris Sept. 18, 2017. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images vita JTA)
June 27, 2024, 6:40 am
Texas school district pulls Anne Frank’s diary after right-wing group’s complaint
Superintendent removes 676 books, including seminal texts about Holocaust and antisemitism, amid calls from conservative activists
By Andrew Lapin
A man holds a copy of the graphic novel version of "The Diary of Anne Frank," by Israeli writer-director Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, in Paris on September 18, 2017. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 20, 2023, 1:49 am
Texas teacher reportedly fired after reading from Anne Frank’s diary to students
Parents complain about sexual passage from 2018 version of diary that restored some portions of initial book that had been cut
By Andrew Lapin
Pick-Goslar survived to have three children, 11 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. (Eric Sultan/The Lonka Project via JTA)
June 19, 2023, 2:28 am
In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival
In ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank,’ the late Hannah Pick-Goslar talks about how she grew up with the future icon and their brief reunion at Bergen-Belsen during Frank’s last days
By Shira Li Bartov
'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.' (Courtesy: Anne Frank Fonds via JTA)
June 17, 2023, 6:20 am
Amid push to ban books in US schools, some call new Anne Frank graphic novel ‘porn’
As a movement to police kids’ literature becomes a political force that may impact the 2024 election, the famous Holocaust diary is the subject of a growing number of controversies
By Andrew Lapin
Tal Lanir, curator of 'Illustrations: David Polonsky' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art through February 18, 2023. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
October 15, 2022, 7:46 am
‘Waltz with Bashir’ illustrator’s creativity on exhibit in Tel Aviv
‘Illustrations: David Polonsky’ offers glimpse at how the artist helped craft the successful film, as well as his work on an Anne Frank graphic novel and various other projects
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli director Ari Folman speaks during a master class at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2022. (Sarajevo Film Festival/ Obala Art Centar)
August 27, 2022, 2:39 pm
In Sarajevo, Ari Folman talks genocide, animating Anne Frank and pleasing his mother
Speaking with ToI at the Sarajevo Film Festival where he screened ‘Where is Anne Frank,’ the Israeli director dishes on an array of complex topics – just like his movies do
By JP O’ Malley
Illustrative: Teaching assistant James Tabron pushes a cart of books as he prepares for the first day of school at Caprock Elementary School in the Keller Independent School District in Fort Worth, Texas on August 17, 2011. (AP/LM Otero)
August 24, 2022, 12:43 am
Texas district that banned Anne Frank adaptation backtracks amid outcry
Reimagining of Holocaust diary is back on shelves, along with Bible, as parents crowd raucous school board meeting to criticize guidelines banning ‘pornographic’ books
By Andrew Lapin
"Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation." (Courtesy Anne Frank Fonds)
August 17, 2022, 4:30 am
Adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary banned by Texas school district
Fort Worth-area school board, newly controlled by conservatives, pulls all books challenged by a parent last year, likely including the Bible, pending a review
By Andrew Lapin
An actress depicting Anne Frank in a new video series about the last six months of her life being released by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Screen capture: YouTube / Anne Frank House)
August 3, 2022, 10:05 pm
Anne Frank’s last six months depicted in new videos
‘Anne Frank – After the Arrest,’ being released in English Thursday by Dutch museum, shows young Holocaust diarist’s deportation and death, filling in what she could not write
By AP
'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' (courtesy)
March 23, 2022, 1:33 pm
Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book from stores after derisive criticism
Team of historians and academics rejected allegations that prominent Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh revealed Frank family’s hideout, calling findings ‘a shaky house of cards’
By Mike Corder
Miep Gies displayed a copy of her book 'Anne Frank Remembered' at her apartment in Amsterdam in 1998. (Courtesy: Steve North)
February 8, 2022, 4:38 pm
Keshet to make series on Anne Frank family protector for Disney+
‘A Small Light’ tells the story of Miep Gies, the young Dutch woman who sheltered Jewish refugees in Amsterdam
By Jessica Steinberg
The 38th Jerusalem Film Festival opened with the Israeli premiere of 'Where is Anne Frank' at Sultan's Pool on August 24, 2021 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
August 25, 2021, 3:16 pm
Ari Folman’s animated ‘Where is Anne Frank?’ opens Jerusalem Film Fest
Long-awaited feature offers a fantastical premise based on Kitty, the diarist’s fictional friend
By Jessica Steinberg
Part of the permanent exhibition of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. (The University of South Carolina via JTA)
August 14, 2021, 12:03 pm
University of South Carolina to open Anne Frank Center
The new center is scheduled to launch in September on the Columbia campus with an exhibition and a learning program
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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