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Anne Frank Was Storyteller at Nazi Camp

Mar 17th 2010 – 2:49PM
AP

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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...

AnneFrank News From the Web

  • 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.

Background on AnneFrank

5535 Annefrank is an inner main-belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1942. It is named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp (the name was not chosen until about 1995).

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