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…
It’s been nearly half a century since George Stevens’s multiple-Oscar-winning 1959 film “The Diary of Anne Frank,” the first and best known of the many film adaptations of “The Diary of a Young Girl,” was released. For many it remains the ultimate cinematic treatment of this classic of Holocaust literature. But that perception might be…
(Reuters) – A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases. Hubert Zafke was serving as a medic in the SS at the biggest death camp in…
The stepsister of Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank compared Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Hitler. In an essay in Newsweek magazine published on Wednesday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eva Schloss, 86, also accused Trump of inciting racism. “The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is ‘Don’t stand by.’ This is…
The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year. Some 1,268,095 people in 2015 visited the Anne Frank House, located at the site in Amsterdam where the young diarist hid from the Nazis with her family. That is 40,633 more than the previous record of 1,227,462 in 2014. “We…
Two editions of the “Diary of Anne Frank” were published online in a challenge to the foundation that allocates the book’s royalties. A French lawmaker and a French scholar published the diary on Jan. 1, when the current copyright expired. European copyrights generally expire 70 years after an author’s death, thus the copyright was expected…
When Anne Frank wrote in her diary to pass the time, she probably never even thought about copyright law or the sticky question of who would come to own her words. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 15, but her father Otto survived and eventually was persuaded to…
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