Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (; 12 June 1929early March 1945) was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A parent complaint has prompted the Culpeper County school system to pull a version of Anne Frank's diary off library shelves.
The county's director of instruction Jim Allen says the book pulled is "The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition."Allen says the parent complained because the version contains sexual references. The school system will use an alternative version of the diary that does not contain such references."What we have asked is that this particular edition not be taught. I don't want to make a big deal out of this. So we listened to the parent and we pulled it," Allen told StarExponent.com.Allen also suggested teachers should become more familiar with any reading material before issuing students an assignment.Despite the book's controversial contents, many schools use it.The diary chronicles the teenager's life from July 1942 until she was arrested in August 1944. She died in a German concentration camp.The definitive edition, which is considered an unedited versi...AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Holocaust survivor claims in a new book that Anne Frank distracted younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Nearly all of Anne Frank's diary went on display Wednesday for the first time at the house where she wrote it during the two years the Jewish teenag...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The monumental chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis was toppled by wind and heavy rain on Monday.The once mi...
Free-thinking, easy-going and friendly - Amsterdam's quirky character is instantly captivating. The city's picturesque canals and flowered streets make the perfect s...
Free-thinking, easy-going and friendly - Amsterdam's quirky character is instantly captivating. The city's picturesque canals and flowered streets make the perfect s...
A video showing the only footage of Anne Frank ever recorded is now available on YouTube.The video, uploaded by the Anne Frank House of Amsterdam on Wednesday, depic...
Muslim witnesses said Monday that a Dutch lawmaker's anti-Islamic comments had led to attacks and intimidation, and they pleaded with judges to convict him and give ...
Jewish groups in the Netherlands called Wednesday for swifter punishment for Holocaust deniers as parliament debated how to combat rising anti-Semitism.Among other m...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A shoot growing from the splintered trunk of a chestnut that cheered Anne Frank during her time in hiding could give the tree a new lease of life af...
Given its larger-than-life reputation as one of Europe's great cities, as well as a bastion of free-spirited tolerance, Amsterdam is surprisingly compact, orderly, a...
Given its larger-than-life reputation as one of Europe's great cities, as well as a bastion of free-spirited tolerance, Amsterdam is surprisingly compact, orderly, a...
A park in Amsterdam has begun planting 150 saplings from an ancient chestnut tree that once cheered Anne Frank as her family hid from the Nazis.The Jewish teenager w...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, fi...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography Friday, hoping to bring her story and death i...
Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died, the Anne Fran...
Klaas Carel Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands of Nazi war crimes and subsequently lived in freedom despite several a...
This country of canals and tulips is also famous for "coffee shops" where joints and cappuccinos share the menu. Now, the Netherlands' famed tolerance for drugs coul...
This country of canals and tulips is also famous for "coffee shops" where joints and cappuccinos share the menu. Now, the Netherlands' famed tolerance for drugs coul...
Campaigners hope a tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis will survive after a new shoot started growing from the toppled chestnut's trunk.A sto...
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