The Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen died on Feb. 13, at age 96.

She and that friend, Jacqueline van Maarsen ... Later in life, she wrote multiple books about Frank, including 2008’s “My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank.” Van Maarsen stayed in touch ...

She wanted nothing to do with ‘the Anne Frank cult’, she said ... Then the next day another friend of Anne’s knocked on my door and said the Franks had escaped to Switzerland.” ...

In my book, I wanted to explore who she really was as a person and why she has become so iconic.” Her newest book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank ... gossip about her friends and the ...

The best friend of Jewish diarist Anne Frank has died aged 96 ... I only got to know at the Jewish Lyceum and she is now my best friend.' Anne also contributed to a poetry album compiled by ...

As a friend’s mother recalled from Anne Frank’s school days: “She saw everything exactly as it was.” Julia M. Klein, the Forward’s contributing book critic, has been a two-time finalist ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visit the Anne Frank House ... and legacy for her book, was struck by ...

Ms. Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children ...