The Anne Frank Foundation () is a foundation in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

originally established to maintain the

Anne Frank House The Anne Frank House () is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Judaism, Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in Amsterdam-Centrum, central Amst ...

in Amsterdam. This foundation also advocates the fight against

antisemitism Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

and racism and publishes the Dutch annual ''Monitor Racisme en Extreem-rechts'' (Racism and Extreme Right Monitor), in which the activities of present-day racists and extreme rightists are studied. Outside the Netherlands, the Anne Frank Foundation organizes expositions and information on

Anne Frank Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...

. The Anne Frank Stichting was founded on 3 May 1957 to prevent the tearing down of the house in

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in which Anne Frank was hidden since 1942 during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. In 1960 the Anne Frank house became a museum. The director of the foundation was Hans Westra, who retired in 2011 and was followed by Ronald Leopold.

Controversies

* Professor Arnold Heertje has repeatedly criticized the Anne Frank House in the media. In particular, he reproaches the foundation for "systematically distancing itself further and further from the historical facts of the story of the Jewish girl" - in particular by equating contemporary discrimination against non-Jews with the persecution of the Jews by using Anne Frank's name so emphatically - and that the foundation's activities "no longer have anything to do with the persecution of the Jews, but serve as food for commercial activities". * There is also criticism of researcher Willem Wagenaar of the Anne Frank House, who often appears in the media to explain new studies on the extreme or radical right. Wagenaar was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for his role in the attack in Kedichem in 1986 on a political meeting in which a woman lost her leg. * The Fond’s admission that Anne Frank’s father, Otto, was a co-author of the Diary, in furtherance of its effort to extend the duration of the copyright, raised loud protests among those who believe the decision brings with it an implication that the words on the pages of the book are not necessarily the sole thoughts of a teenaged girl. “If you follow their arguments, it means that they have lied for years about the fact that it was only written by Anne Frank,” French intellectual property attorney Agnès Tricoire told the New York Times.”https://www.history.com/articles/anne-franks-diary-now-has-co-author-extended-copyright

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Anne Frank Anti-racism in the Netherlands Jewish Dutch history Opposition to antisemitism in the Netherlands Foundations based in the Netherlands Non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands