“Laureen Nussbaum wishes you’d remember Anne Frank more for her potential as a budding literary artist than for her painful chronicling of life as a Jewish kid hiding from the Nazis in World War II.”

Laureen should know. Growing up alongside Anne in the Netherlands in the 1930s, the Portland State emerita faculty member spent a lifetime working to get the original text of Anne’s diary published.

Read my story of Laureen Nussbaum’s incredible life journey, published in this month’s Portland State Magazine.

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