1st Edition
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
List of Contributors
1 Engaging Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
KIRSTEN KUMPF BAELE AND DOYLE STEVICK
PART 1 Anne Frank in the World
2 planting a tree today or arborists of the human spirit
AMAL KASSIR
3 Let Me Be Myself: Teaching Anne Frank in the Twenty‑First Century
RONALD LEOPOLD
4 One Anne Frank, Remembered
DOYLE STEVICK
PART 2 Teaching Anne Frank
5 I Feel Like Writing: Critical Context and the Legacy of Anne Frank in Education
MARK GUDGEL
6 Anne Frank as Author: On Remaking the Diary, Youth Authorship, and Crafting Time
RACHEL CONRAD
7 The Virtual Anne Frank
OREN BARUCH STIER
PART 3 Hearing Endangered Children
8 In Quarantine with Anne Frank: Moving from Empathy to Compassion in a Global Pandemic
NAOMI YAVNEH KLOS
9 “It was really difficult for us to carry this entire story by ourselves”: Ceija Stojka’s Stories as a Child Survivor of the Porajmos/Samudaripen
LORELY FRENCH
10 More Hidden Children: The Korean Film Silenced as/and Disability Rights Activism
WALTRAUD MAIERHOFER
PART 4 Storytelling, Service Learning, and Religious Education
11 Bridging Difficult Histories (G)locally: Embodied Pedagogy through Jewish Experiences of Hiding
SOFIE DECOCK AND KIRSTEN KUMPF BAELE
12 Experiencing Truth and Reconciliation through Indigenous Storywork
ARCHIBALD, JO‑ANN / Q’UM Q’UM XIIEM
13 Prevention of Antisemitism and Racism as a Learning Outcome: Remembrance and Memory in German School Curricula
WILHELM SCHWENDEMANN
Epilogue
14 Coexistences: The Holocaust and Jewish Joy, Israel/Palestine, and Teaching Jewish‑American Children through an International Crisis
MALLORY HELLMAN
15 “Let Our Eye Look Upon Zion”
THEODORE ROSENGARTEN
Index
Biography
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.
