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FILE - A woman enters the secret annex at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
October 16, 2024, 9:35 am
Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden annex heads to New York for exhibition
Meticulous reconstruction of Jewish family’s hideaway to be shown at Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, along with artifacts such as yellow star, ‘Forbidden For Jews’ sign
By Mike Corder
Jewish refugees on deck of the MS St. Louis in 1939. (Courtesy of the Arlekin Players)
September 10, 2022, 4:46 am
Ken Burns’ PBS documentary asks hard questions about how US treated Jews during WWII
Filmmakers explain why ‘The US And The Holocaust,’ which premieres on September 18, is not just another Holocaust film
By Andrew Lapin
A journalist takes images of pictures of Anne Frank at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, File)
January 31, 2022, 11:04 pm
Dutch publisher apologizes over controversial Anne Frank book, halts printing
Ambo Anthos says it should have taken a more ‘critical stance’ before publishing book that said a Jewish notary betrayed Jewish diarist, in findings criticized by experts
By ToI Staff
Anne Frank (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
January 23, 2022, 5:38 pm
Anne Frank Fund head slams findings on betrayal of diarist as ‘full of errors’
Arnold van den Bergh’s family ‘upset,’ rejects claims he revealed Frank family’s hiding place to the Nazis; notes he and his family were also in hiding at the time
By ToI Staff
In this March 7, 2019, photo, Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank and a Holocaust survivor, attends a news conference in Newport Beach, California. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
June 26, 2021, 6:51 am
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, reclaims Austrian citizenship at 92
Schloss fled country as a child to escape the Nazis, later arriving in the Netherlands and meeting Anne; she survived Auschwitz, and after the war Anne’s father married her mother
By JTA and ToI Staff
Ryan Cooper holds a 1972 portion of a diary that he wrote when he visited Otto Frank, the father of the famed Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank, at his home, on June 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)
June 11, 2019, 10:16 pm
US Holocaust Museum digitizing letters from Anne Frank’s father
Man donates trove of letters and mementos he received from Otto Frank, ahead of what would be the 90th birthday of the famed diarist who was killed in the Holocaust
By Philip Marcelo
Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)
May 1, 2019, 8:56 am
‘My aunt might have betrayed Anne Frank,’ writes son of Secret Annex helper
Writer Joop van Wijk has spent years piecing together his mysterious Aunt Nelly’s wartime activities, cutting through lies that concealed her Nazi collaborator past
By Matt Lebovic
An unopened letter to Anne Frank’s father from an insurance firm is up for auction in Amsterdam. (Corinphila Auction House via JTA)
September 21, 2018, 10:44 pm
Unopened letter sent to Anne Frank’s home fetches $11,000 at auction
Letter was sent to Merwede Square when family was already in hiding from the Nazis in the west of Amsterdam; it bears a red ‘return to sender’ stamp and is addressed to Otto Frank
By JTA
Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale of one million copies of the paperback, 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' in London, Great Britain, 1971 (AP/Dave Caulkin)
July 6, 2018, 10:34 am
Anne Frank’s family tried in vain to escape Nazis to US, new research shows
Papers suggest Otto Frank attempted to get family to Americas as early as 1938, but was thwarted by bureaucracy and war, forcing them into hiding
By AP
During an outing in 1922, Walter Hollander (third from left) with friends (public domain)
May 23, 2018, 3:49 am
Who was Anne Frank’s gay Uncle Walter?
After being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Walter Hollander fled Germany. Once settled in Massachusetts, he attempted to help the Frank family flee Europe
By Matt Lebovic
Copies of "The Diary of Anne Frank" are displayed at the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS
May 16, 2018, 12:11 pm
Anne Frank’s gay uncle, sex jokes found ‘hidden’ in her diary
Just-released ‘uncovered’ writings in Frank’s original diary show she enjoyed the occasional off-color joke — just like any teen
By Matt Lebovic
Blogger Alison Chabloz, accused of posting anti-Semitic songs on her site, arrives at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)
January 12, 2018, 4:43 am
British blogger on trial for posting Holocaust denial songs online
Lyrics posted by Alison Chabloz accuse Jews of unscrupulous moneylending practices and call Auschwitz a ‘theme park for fools’
By JTA
Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)
August 4, 2017, 6:07 am
How Anne Frank’s diary was very nearly lost forever
On the anniversary of the author’s deportation to Auschwitz, the tumultuous history behind the influential journal’s publication, as told by would-be step-sister Eva Schoss
By Nadine Wojakovski
Anne Frank's hiding place bedroom during the 1950s (left) and her restored bedroom at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam today (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 10, 2017, 7:21 am
Publication of Anne Frank’s diary saved her ‘Secret Annex’ from destruction
60 years ago, the Netherlands avoided ‘national scandal’ when activists rescued the wartime hiding place
By Matt Lebovic
Erected in 2005, a statue of Anne Frank stands close to the Frank family's former apartment in Amsterdam's River Quarter, January 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
April 21, 2017, 4:45 pm
In Anne Frank’s childhood neighborhood, the buildings do not forget
The iconic diarist last walked along the River Quarter’s wide boulevards 75 years ago, but sites tied to her youth remain untouched in a city known for makeovers
By Matt Lebovic
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