In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...

New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

Ruth was a member of Marion First United Methodist Church where she served in many different volunteer capacities and sang in the church choir.

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...

Ralph W. “Mac” McCormick, age 89, a resident of Greenwood, Indiana, passed away on January 26, 2025. Born on November 21, ...

Josephine was born May 7, 1939 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County to the late William and Mary (Roth) McNair. The Franklin County Free Press is your local news website. We provide you with ...

All that writing “can have a particularly meaningful purpose,” Ruth adds: “it is a chrysalis from which the creative self ...

Her diary would become one of the world’s most famous and best-selling books. Eighty years after her final entry, the story of Frank’s diary is told in a new light by the author Ruth Franklin and by ...