What comparisons between Anne Frank's fate and the current campaign of mass deportations illuminate—and obscure.
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., ...
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Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank?

Slam Frank' sounds unimaginably offensive. But its developmental run has sold out, and audiences are laughing their heads off. What gives?
Sometimes, early in the experience of reading a book, I will get a sensation that I may be in the presence of a classic. It’s tough to say what triggers this sensation. I remember experiencing it ...
Protesters waved Nazi flags outside a community theater production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Michigan, leaving performers "understandably shaken" by the hateful and antisemitic display, ...
You’re probably familiar with Anne Frank, a European Jewish girl whose posthumously-published diary documents her time hiding from Nazi persecution, before being apprehended and killed in the ...
A black-and-white video shared online for years is the only known recorded footage of German diarist Anne Frank. The caption of one March 2025 X post read: "One of the only existing footage of Anne ...
The statue commemorating Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, was defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti for the second time on Sunday. The statue is located in Merwedeplein, ...
The Many Lives of Anne Frank, by Ruth Franklin (Yale). This book depicts the rich texture of Frank’s life, and the “complicated genesis” of her published diary, while also exploring her afterlife as a ...
In the beginning was the red-checked, cloth-covered diary that Anne Frank received on her 13th birthday in 1942. When the Frank family went into hiding a few weeks later, Anne brought the diary with ...
“Slam Frank” — assuming it’s real — turns Anne Frank’s diary into a satire about the discourse around inclusivity. What exactly is “Slam Frank,” the purported hip-hop musical that reimagines the ...
The Anne Frank Center at USC brings its traveling exhibit at the fair, attracting new audiences to Anne Frank's story.