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Banned Books Week 2010: 10 Selections From This Year's List

(Sept 27) -- To commemorate what it calls "Banned Books Week," the American Library Association is encouraging citizens to read a work of literature that has either been banned or restricted in some fashion. Over the years, authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to J.K. Rowling have all had their works...

Banned Book Week 2010: From Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project to Quran Burning

(Sept. 27) -- Just how dangerous is a book? Since 1982, the American Library Association has designated the last week of September as "Banned Books Week" in an effort to draw attention to what the group sees as a central tenet of American freedom: the right read whatever books one chooses. To mark the occasion, the ALA...

Treasured Anne Frank Tree Felled by Storm

(Aug. 23) -- The giant chestnut tree that breathed life into Anne Frank's lonely hiding place in her Amsterdam attic has toppled over in a storm. The trunk of the 150-year-old tree snapped a few feet from the ground today, missing the Anne Frank House museum but smashing into gardens and sheds. No one was...

Storied Tree Behind Anne Frank House Falls Over

AMSTERDAM (Aug. 23) -- 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 mighty tree, now diseased and rotted through the trunk, snapped about 3 feet (1 meter) above ground and crashed across several gardens. It damaged...

Anne Frank Was Storyteller at Nazi Camp

AMSTERDAM (March 17) - Frail, bone-cold and surrounded by death, Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a Holocaust survivor says. The account by Berthe Meijer, now 71, of being a 6-year-old inmate of Bergen Belsen...

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05/27/12 Swiss man reintroduces his cousin: Anne Frank Source: FOX - Q13 Fox News - Seattle WA If the curves of Buddy Elias' 86-year-old face look familiar, it's because he is the closest surviving relative of the girl whose diary gave an early glimpse into the Holocaust.
05/23/12 Anne Frank Source: McCook Daily Gazette - McCook NE They tie in with Anne Frank's Diary.
05/23/12 Anne Frank Holocaust charity to expand its programme... Source: Sunderland Echo - Sunderland - Tyne and Wear - UK A PIONEERING project to tackle discrimination by teaching youngsters about the Holocaust has been given a cash boost.
05/18/12 Anne Frank's cousin to speak in Atlanta Source: FOX - WJCL 28 The Coastal Source - Savannah GA Anne Frank's first cousin is set to speak in Atlanta about a new book about his famous family.
05/17/12 "The Diary of Anne Frank" Source: Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek MI Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.