This is a blog about Anne Frank, but it starts with human rights advocate and Bard College professor Helen Epstein.
Anne Frank’s life in Amsterdam was happy and full of friends. But as the Nazis gained power during World War II, Anne’s family and friends, like other Jews, faced harsh new rules, curfews, arrest, and worse. When the danger struck close to home, the Franks went into hiding in the secret annex…and 13-year-old Anne’s life changed forever. Includes more than 100 photographs, artworks, and artifacts, a fresh point of view based on the latest scholarship, definition boxers, sidebars, and a timeline of events.
This is a blog about Anne Frank, but it starts with human rights advocate and Bard College professor Helen Epstein.
Click here to read my letter to The New York Review of Books, written after the death of Barbara Zimmerman Epstein, the first American editor of the Diary of Anne Frank:...
From The Brandon Sun (January 22, 2005): “The information provided in this book confirms what I have read in other books about Anne Frank, but the appeal of this one is beyond my expectations...