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About a hundred people gathered at Peperzak Middle School Saturday to commemorate a new addition to its exterior: a horse chestnut sapling standing a few feet tall, upheld from gusts of wind by wooden ...
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect planted this tree in Liberty Park in 2016. It was dedicated on June 12, 2017, Anne Frank’s birthday.” ...
"Learning about Anne Frank in school, I didn't know that they tried to come to the U.S.," said Tracey Deyro, who lives in the Bronx, New York. "If you had to flee, where do you go?" ...
“Otto and Edith (Frank’s parents) measured the girls in their time in hiding.” It wasn’t just the Frank family who lived there. The van Pels family and a dentist named Fritz Pfeffer, who shared a room ...
The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam is one of the most visited attractions in Europe; roughly 1.2 million people tour the site annually. The New York show aims to expand access to Anne's story.
Queen Maxima at Anne Frank The Exhibition in New York City on Feb. 25, 2025. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Ullman was born in Amsterdam and survived World War II as a "hidden child." ...
But beginning in 1986, van Maarsen began lecturing on the Holocaust and hate, and writing about her friendship with Frank. The Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen died on Feb. 13, at age 96.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945, likely from typhus fever, at the age of 15. Sanders-Van Maarsen's fate took a different turn.
ORIGINAL, DIARY of Anne Frank, 1942. (credit: PICRYL) Remembering Jacqueline van Maarsen On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Feb. 13, at age 96.
On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Feb. 13, at age 96. “Jacqueline was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum and shared her memories of their ...
Van Maarsen stayed in touch with Frank’s father, Otto, and with the Anne Frank House. In 2020, she laid the first stone of a Holocaust monument in Amsterdam.
Credit: AFP/ ANP/Jerry Lampen Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen, a friend and classmate of Anne Frank, has died at the age of 96, the Anne Frank Foundation announced on Friday. Sanders-van Maarsen was a ...