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 Contributors1. Kirsten Kumpf Baele and Doyle StevickTeaching Anne Frank and Difficult Life StoriesPart 1. Anne Frank in the World 2. amal kassir planting a tree today or arborists of the human spirit3. Ronald Leopold Let Me Be Myself: Teaching Anne Frank in the 21st Century4. Doyle Stevick One Anne Frank, RememberedPart 2. Teaching Anne Frank 5. Mark GudgelI feel Like Writing: Critical Context and the Legacy of Anne Frank in Education6. 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 Children8. Naomi Yavneh Klos In Quarantine with Anne Frank: Moving from Empathy to Compassion in a Global Pandemic9. 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 Education11. Sofie Decock and Kirsten Kumpf BaeleRemembering and Sharing Difficult (Hi)stories12. Archibald, Jo-ann/ Q’um Q’um XiiemExperiencing Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Storywork 13. Wilhelm Schwendemann Prevention of Antisemitism and Racism as a Learning Outcome: Remembrance and Memory in German School CurriculaEpilogue14. Mallory Hellman Coexistences: The Holocaust and Jewish Joy, Israel/Palestine, and Teaching Jewish-American Children Through an International Crisis15. Theodore Rosengarten “Let our eye look upon Zion”Index