Anne frank News

The media's latest blow-up of a Justin Bieber story has come in the form of a visit he paid, out of respect, to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. It's where Frank hid from Nazis for so long, eventually being captured and sent to her death in a camp.

Amsterdam - Whilst in the Netherlands, Justin Bieber visited The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and left behind a controversial message in the visitor's book.

Berlin - Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled a new wax figure of 13-year-old Anne Frank on Friday, the Dutch girl immortalized in her eponymous diary. The wax figure is displayed in an exhibit that simulates her attic surroundings as the family hid from the Nazis.

Amsterdam - Over the weekend, a service in Amsterdam honored Holocaust victims and the memory of Dutch protestors who fought against the Nazis.

Anne Frank, one of the most renowned Jewish victims of the Holocaust, has allegedly been baptized -again- in a Mormon temple. The proxy ritual, known as a 'baptism for the dead' reportedly happened in the Dominican Republic.

Montreal - Last month the sad news of Anne Frank's chestnut tree in Amsterdam fell during a storm made the headlines. Tonight a sapling from that tree was planted in Montreal.

Amsterdam - The chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank during her period of hiding from the Nazis has toppled over in Amsterdam. The iron which had been supporting the tree also fell.

A school in Culpeper, Virginia has reversed an earlier decision to remove the diary of Anne Frank from the curriculum that followed a complaint about the ‘sexual content’ of her writings.

Almost 60 years after Anne Frank died of typhoid in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, video footage - probably the only moving images of the famous diarist - has been released for the first time.

Miep Gies, the young woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during WWII is turning 100. She is the one who found Anne Frank's diary after the Nazi's took away the family.