New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visit the Anne Frank House. It was so many years ago that I’d be lying if I claimed to remember every detail.

The show, which opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis.

In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to the Holocaust.

BRANCHBURG — A traveling exhibition honoring the life and legacy of Anne Frank is now on display at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg. The “Anne Frank in Translation,” presented by the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at RVCC will be on display at the college’s library until May 15.

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, an installation in New York tells the tragic story of the teenage girl and diarist, featuring a precisely scaled re-creation of the Amsterdam annex in which the Franks hid from the Nazis.

Anne Frank House is bringing a recreation of the Secret Annex—where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust—to New York.

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, lived for two years between July 1942 and August 1944 before they were discovered and sent to death camps.

Anne Frank did not live to see the end of the Holocaust, but her words survived. And because of that, no one can claim ignorance about what happened to her and millions like her. But Hind Rajab had no diary. Her testimony is in the broken phone call, in the wreckage of her car, in the cries of every Palestinian mother who has had to bury a child.

The house at 263 Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal) in Amsterdam was built in 1635, more than three centuries before its most famous resident—Anne Frank--lived and hid there from the Nazi occupiers. [Donald H.

Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust distortion particularly dangerous, especially as the number of survivors