Anne Frank Revisited: The Friend, the Diary, the Challenges for Teachers
Hosted By: The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI), Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
This special program features Dina Kraft, co-author of the NY Times bestselling book “My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds.” The narrative, by the late Hannah Pick-Goslar, recounts her friendship with Anne Frank, their childhood, the trauma of Nazi persecution in Holland, and their harrowing experience at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The event includes a discussion on the challenges of teaching Anne Frank’s diary and contemporary Holocaust education, moderated by Andrew Lapin, senior reporter at JTA.
