The last Holocaust survivor died last week. Well, Trudy (not her real name) wasn’t literally the last survivor – but that day is not far off. She was my last Holocaust survivor, the last one I knew as a genuine friend, not as a congregant, or a colleague, or a symbol. She was a gossip…
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
The mainstreaming of anti-Semitism during the Donald Trump election campaign has shocked many American Jews, and it is obviously cause for concern. But it can’t be separated from white nationalists’ broader onslaught against Muslims, Latinos and people of color in general. In fact, if we Jews want to act on the basis of our shared…
In March of 1942, just four months before her family went into hiding from the Nazis, Anne Frank sent a friend an 8-line poem. That handwritten note, recently put up for auction in the Netherlands, just sold for €140,000, the equivalent of $148,000, the BBC reports. Frank sent the poem to the late Christiane van…
A documentary about Anne Frank was secretly screened in Iran, a country whose leaders have openly questioned and denied the Holocaust. “Anne Frank: Then and Now” was shown to film students and a professor in a provincial theater. The film did not have government approval, and viewers risked being imprisoned for attending the event, Deadline…
— A Boston museum has acquired Anne Frank’s personal copy of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” Anne Frank wrote her name and the name of her sister, Margot, on the title page of the 1925 German edition of the book. The book, which sold at Swann Auction Galleries in New York City on Friday for $50,000, is…
The Anne Frank foundation criticized an “escape room” game which included an area designed to look like the Amsterdam World War II hiding space of the famous young Jewish writer, after which it is named. “It shows very little empathy for survivors of the Shoah to use the annex as a backdrop for an escape…
A children’s book in which Anne Frank signed her name is going on the auction block in New York valued at $20,000 to $30,000. A “well-worn” copy of Grimm’s fairy tales owned by the Jewish teen diarist who died in the Holocaust will be auctioned May 5 through Swann Auction Galleries, Agence France Press reported…
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