In brief: Whale Fall; The Beauty of Falling; My Friend Anne Frank – review
An impressive coming of age novel set on a Welsh island; a physicist’s lifelong obsession with gravity; and the harrowing story of a Holocaust survivor
March 2024
Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps
Documentary on deportation of 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during Holocaust prompts city to act
January 2024
‘Before the diary’: new novel about Anne Frank’s life to be published in September
When We Flew Away, by Practical Magic author Alice Hoffman, focuses on the years leading up to the young writer’s confinement
June 2023
Book of the day
My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar review – a survivor’s story
An extraordinary, posthumously published book recalls the horrors of Nazi occupation and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen
May 2023
TV review
A Small Light review – this charming, poignant drama gifts Anne Frank’s tale to yet another generation
The writer is a minor character in a fresh, lively take on her family’s story. Its focus on her father Otto and his secretary Miep Gies – who hid the Franks – is engaging and courageous
April 2023
Observer New Review Q&A
Actor Bel Powley: ‘I’d shied away from second world war stories – it’s always all about men’
The Morning Show star on playing the woman who hid Anne Frank, revitalising period dramas and working with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon
December 2022
King Charles dances with Anne Frank’s stepsister to celebrate Hanukah
Monarch takes 93-year-old Eva Schloss for a twirl during visit to Jewish community centre in London
October 2022
Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank’s friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93
Sweden Democrats suspend official for insulting comments about Anne Frank
August 2022
Texas school district pulls the Bible, The Bluest Eye and other books from library
Where Is Anne Frank review – Ari Folman’s well-intentioned take on the young diarist
June 2022
Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem
Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox between the living spirit of the diary and then the knowledge that you have’
March 2022
Anne Frank: Dutch publisher recalls book on diarist’s betrayal after critical report
The book named a Jewish notary as a main suspect in exposing the family’s hideout to the Nazis, prompting widespread backlash
February 2022
The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan review – who tipped off the Nazis?
Despite controversy surrounding its findings, the work of a ‘cold case team’ powerfully illuminates what it was like to live under a genocidal regime
January 2022
Apology over Dutch book that claimed to identify Anne Frank’s betrayer
Experts express doubt that Anne Frank was betrayed by a Jewish notary
Anne Frank may have been betrayed by Jewish notary
Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime Amsterdam
July 2021
Where Is Anne Frank? review – Holocaust diary imaginatively rebooted for the YA generation
Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman turns Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty into a ghost on the run in near-future Amsterdam
June 2021
Elin Hilderbrand asks for Anne Frank reference to be cut from novel after complaints
Romance writer was criticised for episode in new novel when one of her child characters compares hiding in an attic to the life of the Holocaust diarist
