Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” ...

A new exhibit in New York City lets you step inside Anne Frank's Secret Annex.

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The house at 263 Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal) in Amsterdam was built in 1635, more than three centuries before its most ...

When she was a child, biographer Ruth Franklin read “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, the well-known journal of a 13-year-old who was one of eight Jews who went into hiding in 1942. Frank and ...

Father Francis “Frank” Moyher, 88, a member of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Franciscan Friars, died Monday at Saint Francis Friary in ...

Anne’s father, Otto, survived and ushered his daughter’s diary into the world. The book, an entry in Yale University Press’s “Jewish Lives” series, combines Frank’s direct testimony in the form of her ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary has opened in New York ...

NEW YORK — A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in New York City on Monday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.