Their Pleas for Help to Escape the Nazis Went Unanswered.
The plight of the writers can be read in the exclamation points. “Extremely urgent case!!!” wrote Blima Bierzonski, on Dec. 13, 1938 seeking entry for herself and her 7-year-old daughter,…
Thieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet
The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum…
Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously…