Anne Frank
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Bob Dylan: ‘It sickened me to see George Floyd tortured to death like that’
- Music
- June 16, 2020, 06:00
A few years ago, sitting beneath shade trees in Saratoga Springs, New York, I had a two-hour discussion with Bob Dylan that touched on Malcolm X, the (...)

‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’
- Books
- May 15, 2020, 05:50
Tell us about your new work and how it came about – the story behind the story. My new book is a work of historical fiction and is called The Secret o(...)

Anne Frank House ‘desperate’ for financial support
- Europe
- May 7, 2020, 18:53
As the Netherlands celebrates the 75th anniversary of its liberation this week, the Anne Frank House – perhaps the country’s most famous symbol of Jew(...)

Can a work of fiction about the Holocaust be inaccurate?
- Books
- January 11, 2020, 06:00
Last week, the author John Boyne pointed out what he saw as a troubling trend in publishing. “I can’t help but feel that by constantly using the same (...)

Hidden for 40 years: Renia Spiegel’s second World War diary
- Books
- September 28, 2019, 06:00
“You will help me, Bulus and God.” On July 25th, 1942, 18-year-old Renia Spiegel closed out her diary entry with this line; a mantra-like sentence she(...)

‘We had it licked. Now America is the idiot cousin of Europe’
- Film
- July 3, 2019, 06:00
“How do things ever start?” Erik Nelson muses. “I had a crazy idea: what colour footage of World War II airplanes exists in the archives. I have been (...)

Dutch railway operator to pay compensation for role in Holocaust
- Europe
- June 27, 2019, 17:05
Dutch state railway operator NS has said it will pay “tens of millions of euro” to Holocaust victims and their families for transporting almost 100,00(...)

Archiving the Net: ‘Preserving the web isn’t impossible’
- Technology
- April 25, 2019, 04:35
Our experience of modern history is informed as much from news reels, magazines and personal journals as it is by the physical artefacts we see in mus(...)

Italian terraces are once again housing a rise in fascism
- Soccer
- January 2, 2019, 11:16
Recent weeks have shown, once again, that Italian football has a deep-seated problem with racism and fascism. At the St Stephen’s Day game at the San (...)

Dutch rail company to pay compensation over role in Holocaust
- Europe
- November 28, 2018, 15:09
The Dutch state-owned rail company has said it will pay compensation to survivors and relatives of those transported by their trains to the Nazi death(...)