Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl whose diary captured the horrors of Nazi persecution during World War II, remains an enduring symbol of resilience and hope in the face of adversity.
In an essay adapted from his recent book, “The Last Secret of the Secret Annex,” Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl recalls the long shadow of Anne Frank’s death on his mother, Bep—and Bep’s lasting friendship with her former employer (and Anne’s father), Otto
For decades, travelers have been able to see the Frank family’s hideout by visiting theAnne Frank House, a biographical museum created in the 1950s in collaboration with her father, Otto Frank. The Amsterdam museum is one of the most famou...
Among the items are Anne Frank’s first photo album and her handwritten poetry, as well as a replica of her famous diary. There’s also nearly 80 translated editions of her diary and even the Oscar won by Shelley Winters for the 1959 film “The Diary of Anne Frank...
Anne Frank kept a diary chronicling the two years her family and four others spent hiding in what had been her father’s company’s warehouse. Two of the people who helped the family hide were arrested along with the eight occupants of the “Secret Annex,” as they referred to the secret...
teenager during The Holocaust, she was hidden for two years from Adolf Hitler’s plan, the “Final Solution,” to annihilate the Jews. Her diary archives the peril her family daily faced while in hiding. Anne Frank, at the age of 15, perished in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in ...
Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for 25 months in a secret annex behind a 17th-century Amsterdam canal house. They eventually were captured and only Anne’s father survived the concentration camps, but her story lives on through the diary she kept that has been translated to ...
The miniseries ‘A Small Light’ tells the story of Miep Gies, a courageous young woman who risked her life to defy the Nazis.
It was really interesting to hear the background to the Frank family story and to actively follow their actual path into hiding. The virtual reality experience of the house was amazing and really brought everything to life. We did the tour with 13 ...
Diary of a Young Girl, journal by Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who chronicled her family’s hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands.