Dara Horn, herself a descendant of Holocaust survivors, laments that Anne Frank's account ends with the thought that people are good at heart and the note that Frank died "peacefully" of typhus, shortly before Frank encounters very evil people who took her off at gunpoint to be murdered. Ho...
the blockbuster Amsterdam museum built out of Frank’s “Secret Annex,” or in Dutch, “Het Achterhuis [The House Behind],” a series of tiny hidden rooms where the teenage Jewish diarist lived with her family and four other persecuted Jews for over two years, before being captured ...
The Anne Frank House is a museum dedicated to German Jewish diarist Anne Frank located in the canal house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where Frank and her family and four other Jewish people hid from Nazis from 1942 until they were betrayed and discovered
Hours later, when she got up the courage, Gies went upstairs. She had helped her friends, the Frank family, live out of sight in the middle of Amsterdam for two years, bringing them the essentials of life as they hid from the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Now, the attic was trashed,...
Meijer acknowledged that her recollections of the Frank sisters were fleeting. She said there were many reasons she had waited until now to tell her story - not least that she was busy growing up, having a career and raising a family. She said a dedication ceremony at Bergen Belsen in 2006...
After the war ended, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam where he ultimately learned that none of his family had been among the survivors. It was there that he was also given his youngest daughter’s diary that had been saved by one of their former caretakers, Miep Gies, after their ...
The third text bears witness to an external world horrified by Nazi forces, seen from the perspective of another detainee, that of a teenager who is experiencing the awareness of writing: Anne Frank writes her Journal, while hiding with her family and four friends, first from a juvenile need...
Anne’s diary, discovered here at the end of World War II, brings to life the Nazi occupation of Holland and how the Frank family hid in a cramped, blacked-out attic to escape detection by the Gestapo. But Anne’s diary ends with an entry from Aug. 1, 1914, just before the Frank...
Anne Frank was born to Otto Frank and his wife Edith on June 12, 1929. They named her Annelies Marie. She had a sister Margot who was three years older. They were a Jewish family living in Germany. Their families had lived in Germany for centuries. ...
D-Day turned the tide of World War II, Paris was liberated from Nazi rule, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry and much more. EXPLORE 1944 Multiple Suspects Named in Frank Family's Betrayal Anne Frank’s father Otto—the only member of the family to survive their subsequent deportation ...