To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I thought ...

The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the writings of the girl ...

AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography today, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider ...

Everyone knows her photo. For some it shows the cheeky smile of a young girl, “Miss Quack Quack”. For others, the image represents an enigmatic veil of mystery, similar to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona ...

She described herself as a “little bundle of contradictions,” a willful, lively teenager who clashed with her mother, worried about her changing body, and dreamed of a better future. And in the ...

Ms. Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visit the Anne Frank House. It was so many years ago that I’d be lying if I claimed ...

Something that isn’t known quite so well and that I discovered while researching my podcast series Playing Anne Frank is how The Diary of Anne Frank made its way across the U.S. and Canada and became ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music. Credit...Photo 12/Universal ...