Standing in Anne Frank’s tiny room in The Annex where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, personalizes the Holocaust. This immersion into a full-scale re-creation of the Anne Frank ...
Anne Frank famously kept a diary while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. A new exhibit in New York City features a replica of the family's Secret Annex. The full-scale recreation is furnished ...
We know the diary, we’ve seen her black-and-white photos, the smile as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s. And of course, we know the story — of her family’s desperate attempts to flee the Nazis, and the ...
A board game, pictures of movie stars, a dress, a bicycle … seemingly mundane ephemera are deeply moving at “Anne Frank: The Exhibition,” which opens at the Center for Jewish History (15 W. 16th St., ...
My daughter was 7 when she came home from school and asked if I had ever heard of someone named “Annie” Frank. Her second-grade classroom had a National Geographic book about the famous diarist, and ...
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 ...