Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories

EXPLORING ANNE FRANK AND DIFFICULT LIFE STORIES presents innovative studies and reflections by a range of scholars, writers, and directors of museums dedicated to the legacy of Anne Frank. They reveal the power of life stories in teaching empathy and respect for all human beings in classrooms and in everyday life.

This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. Engaging Anne Frank with these other cases clarifies the distinct nature of the Holocaust, and we build on the fact that the diary touches areas of deep interest, especially to young people, and that it has been read as a monument to resisting hate, which is itself a prerequisite for educating citizens of more diverse and inclusive societies. The diverse contributions and viewpoints in this volume illustrate how rich the ongoing engagement with Anne Frank and her legacy remain.

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Kirsten Kumpf Baele is the University of Iowa's Anne Frank Initiative director and Associate Professor of Instruction in German. Her teaching and scholarship address youth agency and expression, trees in the arts, and contested spaces. She brought the 13th Sapling from Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree to the university.

Waltraud Maierhofer is a Professor of German and Global Health Studies at the University of Iowa. Her recent research and teaching address representations of reproductive and disability rights in German and global fiction and film. She's received Alexander von Humboldt awards and translated The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau (2022) by Swiss novelist Eveline Hasler.

Doyle Stevick is the Executive Director at the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. He was a Fulbright scholar to Estonia in 2003 and 2013-14 and has cöedited two books on citizenship education and three books about Holocaust education around the world.

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EXPLORING ANNE FRANK AND DIFFICULT LIFE STORIES presents innovative studies and reflections by a range of scholars, writers, and directors of museums dedicated to the legacy of Anne Frank. They reveal the power of life stories in teaching empathy and respect for all human beings in classrooms and in everyday life.

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List of Contributors

1. Kirsten Kumpf Baele and Doyle Stevick

Teaching Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories

Part 1. Anne Frank in the World

2. amal kassir

   planting a tree today or arborists of the human spirit

3. Ronald Leopold

   Let Me Be Myself: Teaching Anne Frank in the 21st Century

4. Doyle Stevick

   One Anne Frank, Remembered

Part 2. Teaching Anne Frank

5. Mark Gudgel

   I feel Like Writing: Critical Context and the Legacy of Anne Frank in Education

6. Rachel Conrad

   Anne Frank as Author: On Remaking the Diary, Youth Authorship, and Crafting Time

7. Oren Baruch Stier

   The Virtual Anne Frank

Part 3. Hearing Endangered Children

8. Naomi Yavneh Klos

   In Quarantine with Anne Frank: Moving from Empathy to Compassion in a Global Pandemic

9. Lorely French

   The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka

10. Waltraud Maierhofer

    More Hidden Children: The Korean Film Silenced as/and Disability Rights Activism

Part 4. Storytelling, Service Learning and Religious Education

11. Sofie Decock and Kirsten Kumpf Baele

    Remembering and Sharing Difficult (Hi)stories

12. Archibald, Jo-ann/ Q'um Q'um Xiiem

    Experiencing Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Storywork

13. Wilhelm Schwendemann

    Prevention of Antisemitism and Racism as a Learning Outcome: Remembrance and Memory in German School Curricula

Epilogue

14. Mallory Hellman

    Coexistences: The Holocaust and Jewish Joy, Israel/Palestine, and Teaching Jewish-American Children Through an International Crisis

15. Theodore Rosengarten

    "Let our eye look upon Zion"

Index