Laureen Nussbaum, Anne Frank scholar and Holocaust survivor, will speak on Holocaust history and the legacy of Anne Frank's work during this afternoon lecture.
Professor Emerita at Portland State University's Department of Languages and Literature, Nussbaum has written and taught at length on the literary and social implications of Anne Frank's diary. Like Anne Frank, Nussbaum was born in Frankfurt and emigrated to Amsterdam with her family after the start of the Second World War.
Both the Franks and the Nussbaum families moved within the same Amsterdam social circles and after discovering they had both survived the Holocaust, Nussbaum and Otto Frank developed a lifelong friendship.