Anne Frank
The case for Holocaust education in a post-10/7 world
By Michelle Friedman — November 13, 2023
(RNS) — Comparing Hamas’ motivations to the Holocaust only has value if people know what it was.
New memoir by Anne Frank’s girlhood friend reveals ‘life outside the attic’
By Michele Chabin — June 14, 2023
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'My Friend Anne Frank,' by Hannah Pick-Goslar, details the girls' friendship before the Holocaust and their brief reunion inside a Nazi concentration camp.
They’re banning Anne Frank. Are you kidding me?!?!
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2022
(RNS) — Warning: They are coming for our young people’s brains.
Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank
By Mike Corder — January 17, 2022
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II’s enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family. Their answer, outlined in a new book called “The […]
A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust education
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. (RNS) — The German-Dutch diarist is being memorialized in the heart of the South as part of an educational effort to stem not only hatred of Jews, but bigotry, discrimination and racism more broadly.
Imagine Anne Frank at 90
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 13, 2019
The story about Anne Frank that you have never heard.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank: contemporaries with a common legacy
By Nancy Churnin — January 17, 2019
(RNS) — Two great souls who never lost their faith in love and humanity help us to understand the meaning of each of their lives.
In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation
By Lauren Markoe — January 18, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their deaths,' said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
Bring this to synagogue on Yom Kippur
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 28, 2017
These Jews died during the past year. Each one wrote a Book of Life for the ages.
Happy 75th birthday, Bob Dylan!
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 23, 2016
Bob Dylan turns 75. Let's honor his contributions to Jewish culture.
Now that Anne Frank’s diary belongs to the world, what will we make of her? (COMMENTARY)
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 5, 2016
(RNS) In new diary translations, we may see Anne Frank differently -- perhaps more as a Jew who knew that questioning the world is a gift from God.
Anne Frank’s diary now belongs to the world. Will we see her differently?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 4, 2016
In new diary translations, we may see Anne Frank differently -- perhaps as a Jew who knew that questioning the world is a gift from God.
Christians, don’t forget that we too have killed in God’s name
By David P. Gushee — November 17, 2015
The responsibility of religious leaders is to put their own house in order, not point fingers at other religions.
Japanese ‘Schindler’ honored decades after WWII
By Kirk Spitzer — October 8, 2015
TOKYO -- Chiune Sugihara defied government orders and issued travel visas allowing thousands of Jewish refugees to escape Nazi persecution in 1940.
On kissing and writing and the meaning of life and love in the Anne Frank House
By Rachel Marie Stone — June 12, 2014
In The Fault in Our Stars, two dying teens share their first passionate kiss in the Anne Frank House. Seems a little awkward and even irreverent, until you think about it a little more closely.
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