Although Holland counts famous diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank as one of its most valued personalities, she was never officially given Dutch citizenship. Obviously, her family’s German citizenship was revoked under Nazi rule, but even after they fled to the Netherlands, the Franks always expected to return to the Rhineland after the war. She remains, in spite of pressure on Dutch immigration officials, a girl without a country.
If the Dutch can’t figure this out, surely Israel or the U.S. could issue her a posthumous passport, however symbolic?
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You’d expect everyone to be claiming her. How does one start a petition for posthumous granting of citizenship?
Israel should and will do it. Just bring it up enough. Let the Dutch keep their auctions, we keep Anne.