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Anne Frank's Last Living Relative, First Cousin Buddy Elias, Dies at 89
Anne Frank’s cousin, Buddy Elias, her last close living relative and the caretaker of her enormous legacy, died last week at 89 in Basel, Switzerland. Elias was Frank’s first cousin—the son of her...
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Today Would Have Been Anne Frank's 84th Birthday
Anne Frank received her now-famous diary on this day in 1942, her 13th birthday. “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will...
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Munich Designer Creates Anne Frank Video Game About Life in Hiding
A Munich game designer has created an interactive video game that reenacts a day of hiding in the life of Anne Frank, with the hopes of memorializing the Holocaust for the millennial generation, JTA...
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My Struggle To Reconnect with the Jewish Community—Abroad, and Back Home
When I was in college nearly four years ago, studying abroad in England, I flew to Amsterdam for a vacation. It was one of my first experiences traveling alone, and I found myself intensely homesick....
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Anne Frank's Childhood Marbles Recovered, On Display in the Netherlands
In 1942, Anne Frank was worried about losing her marbles. According to the Associated Press, Anne Frank gave some of her toys to a non-Jewish friend who lived next door in Amsterdam before she and her...
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Tokyo Police Arrest Suspect in Anne Frank Library Book Vandalism
Tokyo police have arrested a man suspected in connection with last month’s wave of vandalism directed at copies of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl in libraries and bookstores across the city. Pages...
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Anne Frank House Unveils Robot to Talk to Visitors. Here's Why It's More Than...
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam attracts 1.3 million people annually. Yet, as The New York Times reports, some visitors, especially younger and foreign tourists, have limited knowledge about the...
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In Amsterdam, the Best WWII Children’s Museum You’ve Never Heard Of
My family spent Thanksgiving in Amsterdam. We stayed in the Jordaan neighborhood, two blocks from Otto Frank’s old warehouse. Every night, we went to sleep to the sound of ringing church bells. Anne...
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