She and that friend, Jacqueline van Maarsen, promised to write each other goodbye letters if they were forced apart — which came to pass just weeks later. Frank went into hiding in Amsterdam in ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen in 2019 in a television studio in front of images of Anne Frank - Oliver Berg/dpa/Alamy ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam ...

The best friend of Jewish diarist Anne Frank has died aged 96. Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen met Anne at school in Amsterdam in 1941, after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. Their friendship ...

In February, Anne's best friend Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen died aged 96. Jacqueline met Anne at school in Amsterdam in 1941, after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.

Jacqueline van Maarsen, Anne Frank’s best friend, dies at 96 Jacqueline Van Maarsen was the daughter of a Jewish father and a mother who was raised Christian and converted to Judaism. By BEN ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum and shared her memories of their friendship throughout her life.

But beginning in 1986, van Maarsen began lecturing on the Holocaust and hate, and writing about her friendship with Frank. The Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen died on Feb. 13, at age 96.

On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” She and that friend, Jacqueline van ...

On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Feb. 13, at age 96. “Jacqueline was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum and shared her memories of their ...

Jacqueline Sanders-Van Maarsen, the Dutch author and cherished friend of Anne Frank, passed away on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at the age of 96. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam announced her ...