Anne Frank Postcard Found
A postcard sent by Nazi victim Anne Frank to one of her best friends has been found in a Dutch antique shop, the BBC reports. The card, sent by the 8-year-old Anne in 1937, shows a Christmas bell in a...
View ArticleMamet to Write, Direct Anne Frank Film for Disney
Disney has bought the rights to film a new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank , Variety reports. The diary of a young girl who hid from the Nazis was first filmed 50 years ago. Pulitzer...
View ArticleMost Hypocritical Book Bannings
Banning a book is a move laden with ironies that can make the banner seem dull-witted in the long run. For National Banned Books Week, 11Points.com lists "the most hypocritical, ignorant, and, based on...
View ArticleLast of Anne Frank's Guardians Dead at 100
The last surviving member of the Dutch group that protected famed diarist Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam during World War II died today at 100. Miep Gies assembled Anne’s papers after she and...
View ArticleNew Details Emerge From Anne Frank's Last Weeks
Anne Frank spent the final weeks of her life distracting younger children from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp in which she ultimately died by telling them fairy tales, says a Dutch woman...
View ArticleJapan Mystery: Anne Frank's Diary Torn Apart
More than 100 copies of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl , plus many other related works that make mention of her or the Holocaust, have been ripped apart recently in Tokyo—the capital of a...
View ArticleShe Discovered Anne Frank Diary in Pile of Rejected Books
You may not know her name, but you know plenty of names because of her. Judith Jones, a consummate literary editor who helped revolutionize American cuisine by publishing Julia Child, has died at age...
View ArticleResearchers Discover Dirty Jokes in Anne Frank's Diary
Only two pages of Anne Frank's diary remain unread—or, remained. The Anne Frank House on Tuesday revealed that it had managed to read the pages, which a then 13-year-old Anne wrote on Sept. 28, 1942,...
View ArticleHistorians: Anne Frank's Family Tried to Flee to United States
Research suggests the family of Anne Frank attempted to immigrate to the United States and later also to Cuba, but their efforts were thwarted by America's restrictive immigration policy and the...
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