A Friendship Forged in a Changing World Hannah Elisabeth (Hanneli) Goslar was born on November 12, 1928, in Berlin. Her life began there, but the rise of the Nazi party…
The Journey That Ended Too Soon In the terrifying world of Nazi-occupied Holland, some clung to a desperate hope. Franz Ledermann, a translator for the Jewish Council, believed his family…
The Girl Who Was Still Full of Life It's a familiar story of teenage friction: two classmates who don’t quite get along. For Anne Frank, one such person was Nanette…
The School That Knew Anne For a child as strong-willed and independent as Anne Frank, a traditional classroom would have been a poor fit. Fortunately, on April 9, 1934, she…
The Last Days of Bergen-Belsen On April 15, 1945, the British army liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. For the exhausted and starving prisoners, it should have been a moment of…
The Pen Pal Who Knew a Secret In the quiet classrooms of Iowa, a ten-year-old girl named Juanita Wagner was given a simple assignment: choose a name from a list…
The Door That Never Opened Before the secret rooms and whispered prayers of the Secret Annex, there was a quiet desperation to leave. In April 1941, Otto Frank reached out…
The Last Journey of Peter van Pels On January 19, 1945, a brutal winter had settled over Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was on this day that the final transport of 2,500 prisoners…
The Day the Sky Changed In the quiet hours between the night of May 9 and the morning of May 10, 1940, the peace of Amsterdam was shattered. For the…
The Sweetness of a Thirteenth Birthday On June 14, 1942, a birthday party was in full swing at the Frank family's apartment. But this wasn’t just any party; it was…