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Home of Anne Frank’s and Julia Child’s editor hits market
A charming two-bedroom, three-bathroom home at 139 E. 66th St. is about to hit the market for $1.8 million. The ninth-floor co-op was home to the late, legendary editor Judith...
Facebook sorry for removing Holocaust image for nudity
Facebook apologized after it removed a post from the Anne Frank Center that was seeking to raise awareness of the Holocaust and depicted children who had been stripped naked and...
'Anne & Frank' bakery owner considers name change after backlash
An Amsterdam bakery owner has been assailed for naming his new store “Anne & Frank” – linking it to the world-famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust after hiding...
Anne Frank's family tried to immigrate to US and Cuba
BERLIN — Research suggests the family of Anne Frank, the world-famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, attempted to immigrate to the United States and later also to Cuba,...
Hidden pages uncovered in Anne Frank's diary contain dirty jokes
Dutch researchers uncovered two hidden pages in Anne Frank’s diary — that are full of dirty jokes and the teen’s thoughts on sex and prostitution. “Anyone who reads the passages...
Cards Against Humanity gets blasted for selling 'Jew Pack'
The popular — and controversial — “Cards Against Humanity” party game has come under fire for selling a “Chosen People Pack” containing prompts about “Torturing Jews” and referencing Holocaust victim...
Anne Frank costume pulled after social media backlash
An Anne Frank children's Halloween costume has been yanked off an online retail site after getting blasted on social media. The costume, sold by halloweencostumes.com, featured a beret, navy shirtwaist-style...
Retired FBI agent opens cold case investigation into Anne Frank's betrayer
A retired G-man has begun a cold case investigation into who told the Nazis about Anne Frank’s Dutch hideout during World War II. Former FBI agent Vince Pankoke will lead...
This Holocaust victim survived by dancing for SS officer in Auschwitz
She had suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Nazi sadists and lost her mother to executioners before she had even turned 17. But Edith Eger lived to tell the...
Let Maria Sharapova play and other comments
From the right: Is Trump Destroying Conservatism? Never-Trumpers may have been right when they warned that “he would destroy the conservative movement by becoming the face of it,” says Jamie...
Editor who plucked 'Diary of Anne Frank' from rejection pile dies
Judith Jones brought the diary to the attention of Doubleday’s New York office, and the book was published in the US in 1952 to wide acclaim.
Celebrity mental-health misdirection and other notable comments
Reporter: Who Does the Anne Frank Center Represent? The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect has emerged as one of President Trump’s most hyperbolic critics, thanks in large part to...
Anne Frank Center wants Spicer fired for Holocaust remarks
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is calling on President Trump to fire White House spokesman Sean Spicer "at once" — saying his comment about Adolf Hitler not using...
Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to the Nazis after all
The Nazis may have discovered Anne Frank’s hiding place by accident – and not because the tragic teenager and her family were betrayed, as historians have long believed. A new...
Poem signed by Anne Frank sells for nearly $150,000
HAARLEM, Netherlands -- A rare handwritten poem signed by Anne Frank sold at auction Wednesday for 140,000 euros ($148,620). In a sign of the enduring popularity of the Jewish diarist...
Anne Frank-themed 'escape room' is definitely not cool
AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank foundation on Friday criticized an "escape room" game made to look like the Amsterdam apartment where the teenage Jewish diarist hid with her family from...
Ex-Auschwitz medic, 95, to stand trial for 3,681 deaths
A 95-year-old man who worked as a paramedic at Auschwitz will stand trial next month as an accessory to the murder of 3,681 death camp inmates, a German court announced...
10 actors who won Oscars for Nazi-filled films
If you can’t win an Oscar playing a disabled person, you’re practically guaranteed one by playing either a Nazi or a character who dealt with the Nazis and lived through...
265 Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo libraries
TOKYO — Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" and scores of books about the young Holocaust victim have been vandalized in Tokyo public libraries since earlier this year....
Marbles Anne Frank hid from Nazis go on display
AMSTERDAM — Shortly before Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis, she gave some of her toys to a non-Jewish girlfriend who lived in the building...