On Anne Frank´s 90th Birthday, Her Childhood Friends Meet With Students in Amsterdam
(WorldNews Netherlands)

(AMSTERDAM) — For Jacqueline van Maarsen, attending Anne Frank’s 13th birthday party in 1942 was a welcome distraction from the grim reality of life in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during World War II. Enjoying movies and cookies at Anne’s apartment meant “we didn’t think about it at that moment,� the 90-year-old Van Maarsen said Wednesday as she and another of Anne’s friends met students from Amsterdam schools at an event to mark what would have been Anne’s 90th birthday. The 13th birthday party was a fleeting relief for children already suffering from discriminatory,...