Anne Frank
Miep Gies also found Anne’s diary after the family was arrested by the Nazis and guarded it until Otto Frank—Anne’s father and the only family member to survive the war—shared it with the world.
The European Jewish Congress called on HarperCollins to distance itself from the book’s “potentially incendiary claim ... at a time when anti-Semitism and the distortion of the Holocaust are on the rise.”
Along with family photographs, documents and a book of poetry, the clock to be exhibited belonged to the family of Marianne Brandes-Brilleslijper, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi resistance fighter.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean: “I invite all good people of Boise to stand with me, as I stand with our Jewish neighbors, to rebuke this hate.”
In addition to the new memorial, the country has the only Holocaust museum in Central America.
It said the center “seeks to inspire our commitment to never be bystanders but instead to stand up together against anti-Semitism, bigotry and inequality wherever it may exist today.”
Directed by Israeli Ari Folman of “Waltz With Bashir” fame, it aims to draw a link between the Holocaust, discrimination and anti-Semitism.
Eva Schloss received papers that granted her Austrian citizenship on June 18 at a ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in London.
The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights posted on Facebook: “I fear for what is happening to our community.”
Cosmetics company apologizes for naming product after Anne Frank
Woke Up Like This, which has pulled the product, says its intention was to “shine a little light during a global pandemic.”
The item description read, “Is your child studying World War II or the Holocaust? Now you can help her transport back in time to the 1940s.”
One playlist is titled “Songs to snort Anne Frank’s ashes”; another called “Getting gassed with Anne Frank” has a photo of the Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim stamped with the words “Straight Outta Auschwitz.”
