The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the writings of the girl ...
AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography today, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider ...
To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I thought ...
Twice in my life I’ve wanted to find out everything I could about Anne Frank. The first time was when, as an early teenager, I read her diary. This was in the 1950s, not long after the book was ...
She described herself as a “little bundle of contradictions,” a willful, lively teenager who clashed with her mother, worried about her changing body, and dreamed of a better future. And in the ...
Anne Frank is known around the world for her deeply personal account of how her family hid in a secret annex in the Netherlands to evade Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. Now, a full-scale ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music. Credit...Photo 12/Universal ...
Ms. Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are ...
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 ...