New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...

A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press’s excellent Jewish ...

Ruth was a member of Marion First United Methodist Church where she served in many different volunteer capacities and sang in the church choir.

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...

Josephine was born May 7, 1939 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County to the late William and Mary (Roth) McNair. The Franklin County Free Press is your local news website. We provide you with ...

Her diary would become one of the world’s most famous and best-selling books. Eighty years after her final entry, the story of Frank’s diary is told in a new light by the author Ruth Franklin and by ...

Ralph W. “Mac” McCormick, age 89, a resident of Greenwood, Indiana, passed away on January 26, 2025. Born on November 21, ...

Many prominent historical figures are from the Metro Detroit area. Here’s a list of prominent Black historical figures in ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...