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The whole story: National Holocaust Museum and memorial to open

Head of collections says institution is working with groups and archives around the world to gather testimony, footage and documentation about the massacres and their aftermath, which will likely take years and cost millions

She killed Nazis in the Netherlands and was known as “the girl with the red hair” on their most-wanted list. Then she was executed.

When I read recently that Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (2019) had been pulled from some Texas school libraries, I did just I would have done as a student: tracked down a copy and read it for myself.  I had read a text edition of The Diary of Anne Frank year ...

Perhaps the most famous document of its type, Anne Frank’s diary is a version of the Holocaust without the actual horrors.

Anne Frank began keeping her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942. For a little over two years, the 13-year-old girl confided in its pages, sharing stories from daily life, observations, and hopes for the…

The diary has been adapted many times for theatre and the big and small screens, and has also been turned into comics and children’s books.

Perhaps the most famous document of its type, Anne Frank’s diary is a version of the Holocaust without the actual horrors.

A look at the significant, memorable, and prescient articles and authors from 100 years of Reader’s Digest.

"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which theyre sending all the Jews....If its that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says theyre being gassed." First published in 1947 I read Annes diary for...