The Last Summer of Innocence In July 1941, Anne Frank's life was still filled with the simple, ordinary pleasures of a child's summer. In a letter to her father, Otto…
The Two Sides of Anne In a letter written to her grandmother, Alice Frank, in July 1941, Anne Frank revealed a world of both teenage complaint and quiet contentment. She…
The Final, Heartbreaking Truth For months after the war ended, Otto Frank clung to a desperate hope that his daughters, Anne and Margot, had survived. On July 18, 1945, that…
The Unwavering Ideal In a world consumed by chaos, suffering, and death, Anne Frank, a teenager in hiding, chose to cling to an extraordinary ideal: her belief that "people are…
The Girl Who Was Never Still In his memory of his daughter, Otto Frank paints a vivid picture of a girl who was constantly in motion, both physically and intellectually.…
Anne Frank's last diary entry on August 1, 1944, is a powerful moment of self-realization. She wrote that she felt misunderstood, as the adults in the Annex only saw her…
The New School In August 1941, the Jewish community in Amsterdam received a chilling new order from the Nazis: all Jewish schoolchildren would be required to attend separate schools after…
The Summer of Laren In the summer of 1938, a young Anne Frank spent ten days at Het Kinderhuisje in Laren, a home for children on short or long-term stays.…
The Illusion of Freedom The morning of August 8, 1944, marked the end of the Frank family's life in hiding. In the early hours, they were taken from the Secret…
The Betrayal and the Hope The raid on the Secret Annex on August 4, 1944, not only led to the arrest of the eight people in hiding but also their…