Franklin dives into all of this by considering Anne Frank through a series of different lenses — child, refugee, prisoner, ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen, a former class mate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum, passed away last week at 96. (Photo by JERRY LAMPEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) Become a member Donate Today ...

She wanted nothing to do with ‘the Anne Frank cult’, she said: ‘I knew using Anne as a symbol was good, but I also felt: don’t overdo it’ Jacqueline van Maarsen, who has died aged 96 ...

Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Jewish teenager’s account of ...

(JTA) — On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” She and that friend ...

And yet, for all that, Anne Frank remains something of an abstraction, especially for the many who have never trekked to Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House museum, which houses hundreds of ...

But beginning in 1986, van Maarsen began lecturing on the Holocaust and hate, and writing about her friendship with Frank. On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Fe ...