Two Holocaust missions in Amsterdam for Anne

November 19, 2023 by  
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In 2015, during a visit to Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, a Sydney Jewish Museum’s curatorial volunteer, Anne Slade, was asked by the then International Project Manager at the House, Levien Rouw, to undertake the task of locating people who had written to Otto Frank, Anne’s father, following the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank. Read more

Majority of Dutch adults don’t know the Holocaust occurred in the Netherlands, study finds

January 27, 2023 by  
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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) on Wednesday released a new study which exposed a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history. Read more

Anne Frank: a unique day in Wellington

June 20, 2022 by  
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A new memorial to Anne Frank has brought together a unique gathering of committed members of the Wellington community. Read more

Keshet Studios, Disney to produce series on woman who sheltered Anne Frank

February 10, 2022 by  
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Keshet Studios will produce a limited series for Disney+ about Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during World War II. Read more

Fund head criticises Anne Frank case probe

January 24, 2022 by  
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The head of a foundation set up by Anne Frank’s father has criticised an investigation into her betrayal to the Nazis that named a Jewish notary as a leading suspect, saying it’s “full of errors” and offers no proof, a Swiss newspaper reports. Read more

Memorial honouring 102,000 Dutch victims of Holocaust opens in Amsterdam

September 23, 2021 by  
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A new memorial in Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter pays tribute to the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported. Read more

Boyd Klap honoured for maintaining the memory of Anne Frank

August 6, 2021 by  
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Over a decade of activities promoting the memory and messages of Anne Frank’s short life was recognized last week with a special presentation to 94-year-old Dutch-born Boyd (Boudewijn) Klap. Read more

U.S. Target removes costume resembling clothes worn by Jewish diarist Anne Frank

September 2, 2020 by  
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A costume that appears to look like an outfit worn by the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank during World War II and the Holocaust has been removed from Target’s website, a spokesperson for the retailer told JNS on Tuesday. Read more

Castle Hill Players stage the unforgettable and touching story of Anne Frank

August 28, 2019 by  
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The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett will play in Sydney at the Pavilion Theatre, Castle Hill from 20 September to 12 October. Read more

Diary of a Young Girl = Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine

June 17, 2019 by  
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The commemoration of what would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, had she survived Bergen-Belsen, was a double event for the Wellington Jewish community. Read more

Anne Frank: ‘Let Me Be Myself’ Exhibition tours New Zealand

February 12, 2018 by  
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The Wellington-based Holocaust Centre of New Zealand (HCNZ) has welcomed the exhibition Anne Frank: Let Me Be Myself to New Zealand which has opened in Auckland. Read more

Teach passengers on future ‘Anne Frank’ train the history of Holocaust deportations

November 14, 2017 by  
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Following reports that Germany’s national railway plans to name a high-speed train after Anne Frank, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder urged Deutsche Bahn to contextualise its decision and provide passengers of the ICE Inter-city Express with information about its predecessor company’s role in the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. Read more

Anne Frank on Antisemitism

July 1, 2015 by  
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The theatre production of The Diary of Anne Frank is playing in Newtown, Sydney. I saw it last month when it opened…writes Julie Nathan. Read more

Forum on Anne Frank

June 11, 2015 by  
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A forum will discuss intolerance in 2015 ahead of a performance of the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” at Sydney’s New Theatre. Read more

In search of Anne Frank’s father’s letters

May 27, 2015 by  
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The Sydney Jewish Museum and Holland’s iconic Anne Frank House have launched a search for a series of typed and hand written letters that Otto Frank wrote to Australian pen pals in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Read more

From generation to generation. From culture to culture

March 7, 2014 by  
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The Anne Frank exhibition opened today at the Sydney Jewish Museum…and  its first visitors were members of a family from North Queensland. Read more

ADC condemns defacing of Anne Frank diaries

February 24, 2014 by  
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Melbourne-based B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has expressed its horror and outrage that hundreds of copies of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl have been defaced in several municipal libraries across Tokyo. Read more

U.N. International Holocaust Remembrance Day – Wellington

January 29, 2014 by  
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Wellington’s UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day was honored by New Zealand’s Attorney-General and honoured the organiser of the Anne Frank tour. Read more

Anne Frank in Sovereign Hill

May 27, 2013 by  
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Touring exhibition “Anne Frank – A History for Today” is now on show at Sovereign Hill’s Gold Museum in Victoria.

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