Anne Frank is quite possibly the most famous victim of the Holocaust or Shoah. Captured by an SS officer in 1944, after two years in hiding in Amsterdam, she was first sent to Auschwitz and finally to Bergen-Belsen. She died in early 1945 in Bergen-Belsen during a Typhus outbreak, although…
Margot Frank was Anne Frank’s sister and one of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read her biography here.
Johannes Kleiman was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read his biography here.
A photo of the Frank family in the Netherlands on their way to a wedding.
The Cosa Nostra men (l. to r.) Attorney Jack Wasserman, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, Frank Ragano, Attorney Anthony Carollo, Fra...
During the Second World War, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in the Secret Annex with the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer. Get to know them here.
Otto Frank twice tried to obtain U.S. visas for his family.
Anne Frank, Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands is a classic of war literature. After being discovered by the Gestapo in 1944, the Franks were sent to concentration camps, and Anne died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Her diary was published two years later.
At least 265 books have been vandalised at 31 municipal libraries across Tokyo since the end of January, it has been revealed.
These pictures bring to life the eerie faces of some of America's most notorious mobsters from the 1920s and 30s after their police mugshots were painstakingly colorized for the 21st century.
Anne Frank is among the most well-known of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Discover who Anne Frank was and what happened to her.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the press junket for the new movie Gifted, starring Chris Evans, McKenna Grace, Octavia Spencer, and Jenny Slate. After attending the junket, I anticipated creating a movie review for gifted for our community. There's so much to share about this film. Gifted is a heartwarming
For those not familiar with Anne Frank’s life and story, Anne was an inquisitive Jewish girl who lived in Holland during the time of Adolf Hitler’s reign of power. Under this new Nazi regime, Jewish people throughout many parts of Europe were subsequently stripped of nearly all of...
Things were good for the Frank family. Prosperous, cultured, and fervently patriotic, they had lived in Frankfurt for generations. During World War I, Otto Heinrich Frank had bravely served in the German army. After the war, he ran the family bank and the Soden Mineral Products Company, which made cough lozenges.
We may read volumes upon volumes of history books and make our teachers proud. But there’s nothing more all-telling than real pictures that document wonders of the past. With Joseph Niepce’s camera obscura used in 1827, humans realized that capturing fleeting moments and preserving them was possible. And they never looked back.
A series of newly colorized images brings the chilling faces of some of America's most notorious mobsters to life.
Miep Gies was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read her biography here.
