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In the beginning was the red-checked, cloth-covered diary that Anne Frank received on her 13th birthday in 1942. When the ...
In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Tamsin Greig, Lesley Sharp and Ellie Kendrick star in the BBC ...
Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim? Dara Horn People love dead Jews. Living Jews, not so much. This disturbing idea was suggested by an ...
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In Nazi-occupied Holland in World War II, shopkeeper Kraler hides two Jewish families in his attic. Young Anne Frank keeps a diary of everyday life for the Franks and the Van Daans, chronicling ...
On April 3, the lights in Mississippi State University’s Music Building Recital Hall dimmed. Two screens on either side of the room lit up, a slideshow of Holocaust images appearing.  Phillip Stockton ...
Sometimes, early in the experience of reading a book, I will get a sensation that I may be in the presence of a classic. It’s tough to say what triggers this sensation. I remember experiencing ...
In 1933, Miep Gies began working for Opekta, a European spice and pectin company that specialized in manufacturing jam, in Amsterdam. It was there that she met the man who would become her husband ...
Batesville Community Theatre will present the “Diary of Anne Frank” adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, produced ...
Outside groups, including a kosher hot dog company, said they would send more copies of the diary to the district. (JTA) — The Texas school district that ordered a version of Anne Frank’s ...