Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories

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 co‑edited two books on citizenship education and three books about Holocaust education around the world.

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