Film

A Terrified Person in Hiding Once Lived Here

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jan 19, 2024 Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City” brings a human-scale map of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam vividly to life. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The U.S. Rejected Would-Be Refugee Anne Frank — Let’s Not Make a Similar Error Now

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 23, 2017 What words of wisdom might Anne Frank offer the Trump administration as it crafts its latest iteration of its Muslim and refugee ban? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Crime of Peaceful Protest

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 28, 2014 Cecily McMillan—facing the possibility of seven years in prison for elbowing a plainclothes policeman in Zuccotti Park—is the latest victim of a cloaked offensive to destroy activist leaders. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Pictures Don’t Lie: Refuting #There Was No Palestine

Juan Cole / Truthdig Apr 17, 2014 One of the common assertions one finds in Zionist propaganda is that there “was never any Palestine.” This odd allegation is simply not true. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How the Anti-Semites of Hezbollah Have Sent Anne Frank Back Into Hiding

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 "This young woman who upsets people " was the headline in Lebanon's L'Orient Littáraire yesterday The teenager was Anne Frank, who died of typhoid at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 after being betrayed to the Nazi authorities, along with her family, in her Amsterdam "safe house"The Jewish Holocaust is not a subject which Arabs have learned to live with. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Anne Frank: The Musical

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2008 There's an adage that cautions against making jokes about such categorically unfunny topics as the Holocaust but how about making musicals? This just in: The BBC brings word from Spain of the staging of a new musical, "Anne Frank: A Song to Life," which at times features "Kitty," a perhaps unwisely (and too literally) conceived character. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Anne Frank’s Family Failed in 1941 Bid to Flee to U.S.

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2007 Newly released documents show that Anne Frank's father attempted to move the family to the United States, but he was not granted a visa. Otto Frank was granted a Cuban visa, but the order was canceled after Germany declared war on the U.S. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )