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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

1947

Contact Publishing

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Hiding From ICE

Is it reasonable to invoke the memory of the horrors Frank suffered outside of a strictly Jewish context?

by Emily Tamkin via Forward on January 27, 2026
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Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?

by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker
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on September 28, 1997

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Gelringer family, who were later deported to Auschwitz.

The Millions We Failed to Save

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

by Ruth Franklin via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023

Crowds of people filling Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.

by James McAuley via The New Yorker on September 18, 2022

Elderly Jewish woman at temple with a lit candle.

America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

by Andrea Pitzer via Vox on May 4, 2017

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