Jacqueline van Maarsen, Anne Frank’s best friend, dies at 96
Van Maarsen dedicated the last decades of her life to lecturing about the Holocaust and Frank
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Fast Forward Norwegian street artist defends mural of Anne Frank in a keffiyeh
The European Jewish Congress had denounced the mural, meant as a statement against the Gaza war, as “a gross distortion of history.”
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The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil"
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Fast Forward Dutch tram company that carried Anne Frank to her doom sought compensation for their trouble, new research shows
Newly discovered documents prove the GVB company was working directly for the Nazis and that it tried to recover its costs even after the war’s end
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