During her time in hiding in the Secret Annex, Anne Frank experienced her first kiss with Peter van Pels—a brief moment of intimacy amid the fear and uncertainty of war.

“I also visited the Anne Frank House as a young girl ... they still decide to kiss each other.” Social conservatives have seized on this as a bad influence on teenagers, Franklin says.

They kiss and they commiserate and bond over the ... This original take on the Anne Frank story is the plot line of a 2015 opera for children titled “Anne and Zef.” Critical of the Nazi ...