Justin Bieber’s Anne Frank furor

By Jeffrey Hensiek
Published on April 16, 2013

Anne Frank House defends Bieber’s visit, guestbook entry

Published on April 15, 2013

The Anne Frank House defended Justin Bieber's visit to the museum and his guestbook message hoping that the teen diarist "would have been a Belieber."

Documents show Venezuela spying on Jewish community

Published on February 5, 2013

The Venezuelan human rights group Espacio Anna Frank says its goal is to promote tolerance by teaching the life story of the teenage diarist murdered by the Nazis.

This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on January 28, 2013

Anne Frank’s stepsister speaks at USC and CSUN

Published on January 25, 2013

Her modesty, gracefulness and soft voice don’t suggest it, but Eva Schloss’ encounter with darkness has instilled in her a determination to tell the world her story.

Jan 19–25, 2013

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 16, 2013

Schloss, the childhood friend and stepsister of Anne Frank, appears in person to give a firsthand account of the discovery and printing of Frank’s diary as well as provide insights into Frank’s life. Much like Frank, Schloss survived the Holocaust hidden in a Dutch home before being discovered by the Nazis. A Holocaust educator based in London, Schloss is a trustee with the Anne Frank Educational Trust, U.K., and has shared her experience in the books “Eva’s Story” and “The Promise.” Tue. 6:30 p.m. Free. USC University Park Campus, Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles. (213) 748-5884. chabadusc.com/anne.

Brazil’s Jewish community announces creation of Anne Frank ‘educational network’

Published on August 17, 2012

Brazil's Jewish community sent directors of five Brazilian schools named after Anne Frank on a Holocaust study tour in Amsterdam.

Anne Frank’s Hollywood dreams

By Danielle Berrin
Published on July 30, 2012

Anne Frank, in her family’s eyes

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on May 23, 2012

Anne Frank, the single most famous name among the six million victims of the Shoah, entered the realm of history and literature with the posthumous publication of her own diary and has been used — and, some would argue, abused — by others who have depicted her on the stage and screen, in novels and comic books. So much so that the flesh-and-blood Anne Frank has wholly disappeared under the accretion of myth and magical thinking.

A conversation with Anne Frank’s cousin

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 15, 2012

Generations of readers, theater patrons and movie goers have been touched and moved by “The Diary of Anne Frank,” but perhaps no one was more astonished by the adolescent girl’s deep inner life – while in hiding from the Nazis – than Anne’s father.

Anne Frank’s Amsterdam App

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on May 8, 2012

Appropriating Anne Frank

By Danielle Berrin
Published on April 11, 2012

Looking into Anne Frank’s unblinking eyes

Published on March 22, 2012

Is the image of Anne Frank heading in the same commercial direction as Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”?Is the image of Anne Frank heading in the same commercial direction as Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”?

Sapling from Anne Frank’s tree to be planted at Yad Vashem

Published on March 22, 2012

A sapling from the chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary will be planted at Yad Vashem.

Anne Frank figure unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Berlin

Published on March 12, 2012

Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled a wax figure of Anne Frank depicted sitting at her desk, pen in hand, smiling dreamily.

Anne Frank baptized in Mormon proxy ritual

Published on February 22, 2012

Anne Frank was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a Holocaust victim discovered to have been baptized posthumously this month.

Punishment of Italian boys includes reading Anne Frank’s diary

Published on August 31, 2011

Two middle schoolers who scrawled a swastika and "Adolf" on a wall near the Venice Jewish cemetery must read "The Diary of Anne Frank" as part of their punishment.

Official from leading secular Egyptian party calls Holocaust ‘a lie’

Published on July 6, 2011

A top official with one of Egypt's leading secular political parties called the Holocaust "a lie" and Anne Frank's diary “a fake” in a recent interview

Tiki Barber compares himself to Anne Frank, gets slammed by ADL

Published on May 27, 2011

The Anti-Defamation League slammed retired football player and former NBC broadcaster Tiki Barber for jokingly comparing himself to Anne Frank.

New book: Man who arrested Anne Frank served West German intelligence

Published on April 11, 2011

The man who arrested the family of Anne Frank in their Amsterdam hiding place 67 years ago worked for the West German intelligence agency for years, a new book has revealed. SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer, an Austrian-born Nazi, worked for the West German secret service, or BND, according to author Peter-Ferdinand Koch, whose new book, "Unmasked," documents the biographies of Nazi soldiers and SS members who ended up working as spies for the democratic state.

Dutch teen sentenced to work in Anne Frank House

Published on January 12, 2011

A Dutch teenager who said in an interview that Jews should be exterminated was ordered to do community service in the Anne Frank house. The 18-year-old identified as Omar E. made his remarks in an interview on the Dutch-language GeenStijl website, according to DutchNews.nl.

Anne Frank’s tree collapses

Published on August 23, 2010

The giant chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about several times in her diary collapsed in stormy weather.

Anne Frank’s inferred sexuality in novel upsets kin

Published on June 22, 2010

The family of Anne Frank is accusing a British author for exploiting the famed diarist's relationship with Peter van Pels for her new novel.

Memoir’s Glimpse of Anne Frank Draws Skepticism

Published on March 18, 2010

Frail, cold and surrounded by death, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a survivor of the camp says.

Anne Frank diary resonates with Cambodians

Published on October 6, 2008

The famed Holocaust memoir, translated into Khmer, strikes an all-too-familiar theme for a people who felt the genocidal wrath of a despotic regime.

Photos capture numbers and words of Nazis’  Final Solution

By Kirk Silsbee
Published on August 20, 2008

A selection of 52 color digital images from Ehrlich's documentation of Nazi bureaucracy from Hitler's Final Solution will be on display in "The Holocaust Archive Revealed" at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica beginning Tuesday

A step back in time to Anne Frank’s hiding place

By Celia Soudry
Published on November 8, 2007

To experience the intense claustrophobia in which Anne Frank's family lived while hiding from the Nazis, just go to the Celebration of Books at American Jewish University this Sunday. No, not just because of the swarming crowds that will no doubt be filling the university's halls, hoping to meet the many celebrity authors. You really can relive the Franks' experience in a life-sized recreation of the two-room space in Amsterdam in which Anne, along with her parents, older sister and Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and acquaintance of the Franks, lived from 1942-1944.

Stark locations make perfect sets for ‘Anne Frank’ opera production

By David Mermelstein
Published on April 12, 2007

Now Long Beach Opera, a company known for its daring repertory and unconventional interpretations, is presenting the West Coast premiere of "The Diary of Anne Frank," with three performances, from April 17 to 21 at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and at Lincoln Park in Long Beach. (Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood will also present a semistaged performance on Yom HaShoah, April 15.)

Theater: Updated ‘Anne Frank’ production shows harder side, and tears

By Ivor Davis
Published on March 22, 2007

Olmert goes to China; Hezbollah is back; Euro righties caucus; Jews get blamed again

Published on January 11, 2007

World News Briefs

Novel Tears Down a Sacred Shrine

By Peter Manseau
Published on June 23, 2005

One of the more surprising moments in recent music history comes midway through the celebrated 1998 indie rock album, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," by the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Hiding in an otherwise understated tune are some startling lyrics:

I know they buried her body with others.

Her sister and mother and five hundred families.

And will she remember me fifty years later?

I wish I could save her with some sort of time machine....

It is, as many a hipster could tell you, an album about Anne Frank. Its singer and lyricist was a shaggy-headed 27-year-old named Jeff Magnum. As far removed as his native Louisiana was from Amsterdam, his songs give the unmistakable impression that he is a man in love with a 15-year-old girl who had been murdered more than five decades earlier.

Young and Old Recall Shoah Rites

By David Finnigan
Published on April 22, 2004

Southern California Jews and non-Jews marked Holocaust Remembrance Day together at numerous events, including one that saw German teenagers and Jewish and Hispanic schoolchildren under the same tent, listening to their peers recite the words of Anne Frank.

Japanese Youngsters Sing Shalom

By Michael Aushenker
Published on July 31, 2003

When Temple Beth Am of Los Angeles extended a konnichi wa during Saturday services to its Japanese visitors, they answered "Shabbat shalom." Small Hands, a group of Japanese goodwill ambassadors, ages 12-18, offered a cultural exchange on its July 26 visit.

Idaho Remembers Anne

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 17, 2002

Idaho will draw some more welcome attention as the home of the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial and Park, in the heart of Boise, the state capital.

Your Letters

Published on June 7, 2001

Your Letters

New Aspects of Anne

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 17, 2001

Let's say it right up front: The four-hour television miniseries "Anne Frank" is the most powerful film on the Holocaust in recent memory, not excepting the fabled "Schindler's List."

Anne Frank’s Changing Image

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 17, 2001

Fifty-six years after Anne Frank perished in Bergen-Belsen, her life and legacy loom larger than ever.

“Anne Frank” for Teens

By Orit Arfa
Published on August 5, 1999

Contemporary Holocaust literature for young adults seems to favor a theme: transport unaware teenagers to German-occupied Europe and, together with the characters, the readers will emerge as more sensitive, aware young adults.