The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the writings of the girl ...

AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography today, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider ...

To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I thought ...

Twice in my life I’ve wanted to find out everything I could about Anne Frank. The first time was when, as an early teenager, I read her diary. This was in the 1950s, not long after the book was ...

She described herself as a “little bundle of contradictions,” a willful, lively teenager who clashed with her mother, worried about her changing body, and dreamed of a better future. And in the ...

The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music. Credit...Photo 12/Universal ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visit the Anne Frank House. It was so many years ago that I’d be lying if I claimed ...

Ms. Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are ...