Jezebel: Anne Frank

Jewish Girl's Memoir Describes Outwitting Nazis

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:40:00 EDT

Next year the British publisher of Anne Frank's diary will release a diary by Helga Weiss, one of the few children from the Czech ghetto of Terezin who survived Auschwitz. Weiss, who grew up to be an internationally known artist, was confronted by Josef Mengele in the camps, but managed to save herself and her mother by convincing guards that she was older and her mother was much younger. More »

Today In Ill-Advised Anne Frank Interpretations

Irin Carmon — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:17:28 EST

A fantasy of Jewish militarized revenge — like Inglourious Basterds! Sexing up a Holocaust victim who died at 15 — like everything else everywhere! The question is, are you Team Anne or Team Hitler? More »

Anne Frank's Classmates Tell Their Stories

Sadie Stein — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:21:00 EDT

Seven of Anne Frank's surviving classmates from Amsterdam's Jewish Lyceum contributed to Theo Coster's By The Classmates of Anne Frank, which has already been published in Dutch and will now make the rounds at the Frankfurt Book Fair. More »

Levi Johnston: Still Political After All These...Days

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:10:00 EDT

Levi Johnston is not ready to let his 15 minutes go quite yet. The famous father has filed papers to run for office next year in Wasilla. A spokesman says Johnston is interested in running for mayor or city council.

The Anne Frank Sex Scene You Haven't Been Waiting For

Sadie Stein — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:30:00 EDT

You know the problem with the Diary of Anne Frank? Not enough sex scenes. Well, luckily, that's about to change: More »

Does 10-Year-Old Bookworm Identify With Anne Frank?

Sadie Stein — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:30:00 EDT

"No," she tells the New Yorker in her informative Q&A! [NewYorker] More »

Sarah Palin Keynote Speaker For NRA • Jaycee Dugard Sues For Damages

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:30:00 EST

• Hunting enthusiast Sarah Palin continues to play to her Real American base: she will be giving the keynote speech at the upcoming annual NRA meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. • More »

On Girls Who Loved Reading Anne Frank's Diary

Irin Carmon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:40:00 EST

"As the girls who loved Anne Frank grew up, they became women who loved Miep Gies, and who hoped that they would do what she did, if ever they were asked to." [Washington Post] More »

Miep Gies, 1909-2010

Irin Carmon — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:40:00 EST

"[You don't have to] be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary." [AP, NYT] More »

Women May Play In NBA Within A Decade • Prostitutes Offer Free Sex In Protest

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:40:00 EST

• NBA Commissioner David Stern says in the next decade women may join the NBA: "I don't want to get into all kinds of arguments with players and coaches about the likelihood, but I really think it's a good possibility." More »

Sex Positions For The Solo • Study: French Women Do Get Fat

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:20:00 EST

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• Since us single folk are missing out on all those hilariously uncomfortable-looking sex positions featured each month in Cosmo, here's a helpful chart of sex positions for the lonely. We're digging the Abe Lincoln. • More »

Tree Of Life

Sadie Stein — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:45:00 EDT

11 saplings from the chestnut tree Anne Frank could see from her attic window have been planted around the world at "sites dedicated to fighting intolerance " - including Little Rock Central High School, famously integrated in 1957. [NYT] More »

Diary Of A Young Girl

Sadie Stein — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Francine Prose, on Anne Frank: The Book, the Life and the Afterlife: " Teenaged girls are the most maligned, undervalued portion of the population, as though they're all gossip girls. They can be very smart and attuned to the world." [WSJ] More »

Revealed! Frank-By-Mamet!

Sadie Stein — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:40:00 EDT

The news that David Mamet will be helming the new Anne Frank movie has baffled and intrigued cinephiles across the land. Now, True/Slant presents us with the first, leaked pages of the odd coupling! [True/Slant] More »

Strange Bedfellows

Sadie Stein — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:20:00 EDT

David Mamet, Disney and Anne Frank are things that shouldn't be in the same sentence, let alone movie. But the latest, mouse-funded version of the Diary of a Young Girl is written and helmed by the profanity-lovin' playwright. [Variety] More »

Indian Sex Workers Learn Martial Arts For Self Defense • High Schooler Diagnoses Her Own Disease

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:30:00 EDT

• A group of sex workers in India have decided to take their safety into their own hands and learn karate to protect themselves. "I am fully confident now that I can escape," said one martial arts student. • More »

Tree Of Life

Sadie Stein — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Although the horse chestnut tree that marked the seasons for Anne Frank while her family hid in Amsterdam is dying, ten of its saplings may be brought to America for planting. [NYT] More »

Anne Frank's Helper Turns 100 • Swiss Skinheads Cause Brazilian Mother To Miscarry

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:30:00 EST

• Anne Frank's last surviving "helper," Miep Gies, turns 100 this Sunday. She humbly claims that she has received far more attention than she deserves, and "so many others have done the same." • More »

Anne Frank Was A Bossy BFF • Honor Killings Rise In Southern Iraqi City

Maria — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST

• In her book My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank Jacqueline Van Maarsen, Anne Frank's best friend, claims that the noted diarist and Holocaust victim was an extroverted girl who made bossy demands on their friendship. • The Iranian government will set up marriage bureaus to help Iranians find suitable husbands and wives and encourage banks to give out loans for weddings. • To mark World AIDS Day, photographer Kalpesh Lathigra photographs and meets with prostitutes (many of them forced or "tricked" into the profession) of India's hidden sex trade. • More »

In Which We Find Nice Things To Say About Sarah Palin

Jessica G. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT

My friend Liz IMed me regarding this recent New York Times story about Sarah Palin's background. "It makes me like Palin more," Liz wrote and then quoted from the interview. "The Heath family home is a cross between a natural history museum, science class, tackle shop and favorite grandparents’ house, where supper, on a recent evening, was orange juice and grilled cheese on china plates at the kitchen counter." She added, "It makes them sound normal and quirky." More »

Literary Ladies Look Thirty Years Younger With The Right Makeover

Jessica G. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:30:00 EDT

We always agreed with Angela Chase on My So-Called Life when she described Anne Frank as "lucky." Angela's English teacher asks her, "How could Anne Frank be lucky?" and Angela responds, "'Cause she was stuck in an attic for three years with this guy she really liked." That's the part of Anne Frank that people should be focusing on, not all that dreary, depressing Holocaust and death stuff. This month, Radar Magazine agrees with us, giving the bland, old Anne Frank cover a sexy new makeover! After the jump, check out the other fab makeover Radar gives to Holocaust bummer Sophie's Choice. Sophie might have to choose between her children, but she doesn't have to choose an outdated aesthetic! More »

Happy Holocaust Awareness Week, everyone....

Jennifer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:20:00 EST

Happy Holocaust Awareness Week, everyone. (It's also Eating Disorder Awareness week, but, uh yeah, I'm going to pass on making a connection between the two.) As the token grandchild-of-Holocaust survivors, I call attention to these Anne Frank-related news stories: Hillel Colorado commissioned a poster bearing the copy "Millions of Americans don't believe there was a Holocaust." The image? The spine of The Diary of Anne Frank with a library "Fiction" label affixed to it. Also: The first-ever photo of Anne Frank's boyfriend, Peter Schifft, has been published and the diary of a girl who was not Anne Frank but chronicled her own experiences as a teen in the Warsaw ghetto has been restored and is on display at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. [AdRants, Editor & Publisher, Telegraph] More »

When we caught wind of the news of The Diary...

Jennifer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:20:00 EST

When we caught wind of the news of The Diary of Anne Frank being turned into a musical we couldn't help channel Amy Winehouse's most famous lyric, "No, no, no." Anne Frank: The Musical will be produced by a Spanish theatre company in Madrid next month, with the blessing of the The Anne Frank Foundation, no less. The Anne Frank Foundation gets prickly about just who is allowed access to the memory of the Holocaust victim, having once told Steven Spielberg, of all people, that it would not permit him to tell his own version of her story. But some no-name Spaniards with a bustling piano score? That's okay? Priorities, people! [Guardian] More »

It's Hard To Be A Jew On Christmas

Jessica — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST

Tomorrow's Christmas, or, as I knew it throughout my childhood, that day when I'm bored and nothing is open. I'm 100% Heeb, and my mother was so anti-Christmas that we didn't even do the stereotypical Jew things like eat Chinese food and go to the movies. Doing those things would be a tacit acknowledgment that Christmas existed, and my mom wasn't about to kowtow to the status quo. I've elided all my severe Christmas envy into one mental image: me, at eight, pressing my hooked nose against the window panes of our Christian neighbors' houses as they embraced around the tree, tearing the wrapping paper off their brand new Nintendos in some sweater-clad, ritualized, yuletide orgy. More »

NYTimes Asks: What Would Anne Frank Say About Seasonale?

Jennifer — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:09:44 EDT

The NY Times asks the big questions about menstrual periods today: Do we need them? What long-term effects do birth control methods have on the female body? How does Anne Frank's plight against the Nazis impact the way in which we bleed? More »

Jenna Bush, The Next Dave Eggers?

Moe — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:33:55 EST

Why do we have a soft spot for Jenna Bush? Maybe because we, too, can't help that we have a Republican for a father and a serious drinking problem. Maybe because she looks sort of Julia Stiles-y in this picture but not in that way that you sort of wonder what the fuck happened to Julia Stiles as a kid to make her scowl that way all the time. Anyway, Jenna doesn't need the $300,000 she's getting from HarperCollins to publish her book on a orpahaned HIV-positive teenage mother in Panama, but let's not bury the lead here — Jenna Fucking Bush is still alive? Jenna Fucking Bush has not been hospitalized for methadone abuse yet? Jenna Bush is writing a book? What happened to Jenna getting arrested? Jenna not showing up for work? Jenna getting her plumber ass beat by Robin Givhan? Jenna wandering from Zanzibar to Barclay's Square like she's in a some hermetically sealed Jenna-bubble? Oh wait, here it comes: More »

Jenna Bush, The Next Dave Eggers? Actually, More Like Anne Frank

Moe — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:33:55 EST