Anne Frank

David, Meet Anne

Arts, Culture & Media

Werecently learnedthat Disney has sealed a deal withDavid Mamet. He will be writing the screenplay for and directing “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Breathe. This has to be a joke, right? Mamet is an incredible writer, but has had more than a few problematic moments regarding social sensitivity. Not to mention that Anne Frank ranks […]

South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel after getting deported back to Juba, June 18, 2012.

Hundreds of Israeli rabbis say they will personally hide African asylum-seekers in their homes

Justice
Dutch Minister of Education Ronald Plasterk looks at a facsimile of Anne Frank's dairy after a news conference in Amsterdam in 2009.

Who betrayed Anne Frank?

Culture
Pictures of those who disappeared during Guatemala's 36-year civil war

Anne Frank’s diary inspired some victims of Guatemala’s civil war to tell their stories

Conflict
Anne Frank's poetry letter to her friend Christiane was sold today to a private bidder.

Buyer pays nearly $150,000 for a letter Anne Frank wrote at 12

Culture
New citizens are naturalized during a ceremony in Oakland, California, on August 13, 2013.

Could you pass the test? International citizenship tests are often more interested in cultural quirks than national knowledge

Global Politics

At some level, all countries push new citizens to integrate and that’s where civics and language citizenship tests come in. But when you take a longer look at how citizenship exams are developed worldwide, you realize they can have less to do with methodology than promoting a strict cultural identity.

Polish Jewish community uses Mormon-produced archive to make family connections

Lifestyle & Belief

In the 1960s, Poland was short on funds to digitize and maintain its paper archives. They approached the Mormon Church and got its help in doing just that. But somewhere in the intervening years, the Momon Church used those archives and other to posthumously baptize Holocaust victims. That’s caused a rift between the Mormons and the Jewish community.

Polish Archives Used in Mormon Baptism of Holocaust Victims

Global Politics

Several decades ago, Poland approached the Mormons in Utah for help with its archives. The Mormons modernized the Polish records, but some used those records to posthumously baptize Jewish Holocaust victims.

The World

Shalom Auslander and Anne Frank

Arts, Culture & Media

What if Anne Frank had lived? That’s the premise of the new novel by Shalom Auslander, who made his name with the dark comic memoir Foreskin’s Lament.