New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

As Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches we'd like to honor a very special book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. This gives us a first-hand look into a young Jewish girl's life as she lives ...

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to her.

FILE - In this Monday, June 14, 1971 photo Dr. Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale of one million ...

ONE OF THE MAJOR GOALS OF THIS PROJECT IS TO BE ABLE TO CREATE SOME SORT OF JOINT DATABASE OR CATALOG FOR THESE LOOTED BOOKS, SO THAT THEY’RE DISCOVERABLE FOR EVERYONE MOVING FORWA A full-scale ...

The show, which opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis.

It’s a facsimile, but that book, this room, is what Anne saw, and it’s not a photo, not virtual. I didn’t read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” as a school-age kid. I hadn’t even read it when I ...

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...

The recreation of the cramped hiding space shared by the Jewish girl and her family is the first replica outside of Amsterdam.

Quirky, sensitive, sharp, intelligent, the book sold in English as “The Diary ... In “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” Ruth Franklin explores the idea that the posthumous fame attached to ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by countless admirers.