A new exhibit in New York City lets you step inside Anne Frank's Secret Annex.

Jacqueline Van Maarsen was the daughter of a Jewish father and a mother who was raised Christian and converted to Judaism.

One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori school in Amsterdam in 1935, appears twice in “Anne ...

Photograph: John Halpern Photograph: John Halpern Let’s take a step back: Anne Frank’s diary is a firsthand account of a Jewish girl’s life in hiding during the Nazi occupation. Her father ...

executive director of the Anne Frank House said. Photo by John Halpern The exhibition builds gradually, starting in bright rooms depicting the Franks’ lives in Germany in the 1920s and in their ...

and it’s not a photo, not virtual. I didn’t read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” as a school-age kid. I hadn’t even read it when I toured the actual house in Amsterdam in my late ...

and more than 100 artifacts from the Anne Frank House’s collection, some traveling to the U.S. for the first time. Included here are Frank’s first photo album and handwritten verses ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” Source photograph by Archivio GBB/CONTRASTO, via Redux.

Hours before the May 1960 opening of Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, Otto Frank gazes at the empty annex where his family and four other Jews hid from the Nazis for more than two years. What must ...