She wanted nothing to do with ‘the Anne Frank cult’, she said: ‘I knew using Anne as a symbol was good, but I also felt: don’t overdo it’ Jacqueline van Maarsen, who has died aged 96 ...
Jacqueline van Maarsen, a former class mate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum, passed away last week at 96. (Photo by JERRY LAMPEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) Become a member Donate Today ...
On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” She and that friend, Jacqueline van ...
Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Jewish teenager’s account of ...
The diary of 15-year-old Anne Frank ended abruptly when the Nazis broke into her family’s hiding place in Amsterdam. What happened next? Of the last days of one of the world’s best-known ...
But beginning in 1986, van Maarsen began lecturing on the Holocaust and hate, and writing about her friendship with Frank. On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Fe ...