In Old Files, Fading Hopes of Anne Frankâs Family
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Newly discovered documents reveal the Frank familyâs desperate efforts in 1941 to get to the U.S. or Cuba.
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The families of some Sept. 11 victims are trying to explore how their loved ones died, but the topic of those who jumped from the World Trade Center is an especially sensitive one.
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A bid to grant Dutch citizenship to Holocaust victim Anne Frank some 60 years after her death has been rejected by the country&#39;s justice ministry.
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Representatives of McCanns in talks about turning story of disappearance into a film
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Queens can have it rough. Consider Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, and Marie Antoinette -- removed by slices.
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The father of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diaries of life hiding from the Nazis became world famous, sought money and help obtaining a U.S. visa from a wealthy New York friend in hopes of escaping Europe, according to documents released on Wednesday.
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Spanish producers have turned the life  of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding  from Nazis, into a musical, tearing up the genre's widely held  convention of light-hearted, sugar-coated tale.
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Hilda Shlick thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust &#151; until her Internet-savvy grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an ancient letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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For relatives of the late Gail German, it could best be described as a bitter-sweet moment.
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Scholars are hoping to lift a directive issued by the White House in 2001 that has severely slowed or prevented the release of important presidential papers.
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Spurred by technological strides like DNA matching, some families hope to find the remains of World War II soldiers.
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A bid to secure Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank posthumous Dutch citizenship has failed, almost 60 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp, officials said on Sunday.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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Some version of the immigrantâs tale told in âGolden Doorâ is part of the family history of millions of Americans.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Exclusive: A cache of letters by Anne Frank's father, written in 1941 before the family went into hiding, have been uncovered by a Jewish research institute