When Anne Frank Was a Jewish Girl

The recent controversies surrounding the activities of ICE have, inevitably, led to comparisons between illegal immigrants fearing deportation and Anne Frank. Such misguided analogies speak simultaneously to the symbolic power of her diary, the unyielding efforts to universalize her story, and the fact that Frank’s account ends before she was taken to Auschwitz and died of disease and starvation at Bergen-Belsen. Yeshua Tolle discusses this in reviewing two new books about Frank. One, Ruth Franklin’s new biography,