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Every day, young Anne Frank and her sister Margot walked 2.5 kilometres to school, as Nazi anti-Jewish laws barred them from ...
This is a book that should be read and discussed for generations. It’s worth wondering whether or not we needed another study of Anne Frank. There are multiple biographies of Anne Frank.
In March 1945, Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Jewish teenager’s account of her final years became a global phenomenon following ...
New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...
The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...
Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by countless admirers.
Anne Frank proved herself a preternaturally talented writer while only a teen. Since her death she’s become something more, and less.
In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands’ failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust.
“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.” ...
Do you remember when you read Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl?” The assignment is still suggested reading in public schools, but not required as often as it used to be. Alice Hoffman ...
"When We Flew Away" delves into the life of Anne Frank before she and her family went into hiding during Nazi persecution in the midst of German occupation. Author Alice Hoffman talks more about it.