This is a story about a girl and her tree -- a tree that helped keep hope alive, even as the world closed in on her.
Adora Svitak, a 12-year-old author, is on a quest to redefine the word "childish."
12-year-old author Adora Svitak believes in the ideas of children. She spoke to CNN at TED 2010.
Mark McGwire Soon after he raised his right hand and testified before Congress at a hearing on baseball and steroids in 2005, McGwire said, "I'm not here to talk about the past" -- probably his most public and famous denial in a decade of them.
Miep Gies, who ensured the diary of Anne Frank did not fall into the hands of Nazis after the teen's arrest, has died. She was 100.
Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who detailed her thoughts and her family's life while hiding in an attic from the Nazis in Amsterdam, can now be seen in rare video that has been posted on the Internet.
At age 12, Anne Frank leans out a window to watch a newly married neighbor leave the apartment building on July 22, 1941.
Anne Frank's account of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, published posthumously in English as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," has moved millions of readers across the decades.
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss talks about her experiences of the Holocaust and her relationship with Anne Frank.
She told stories, flirted outrageously with boys and was constantly changing her hairstyle.
To think there are some people who still argue that the law shouldn't categorize some offenses as hate crimes and allow for enhanced criminal penalties.
A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington's Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by return fire from other guards, authorities said.
A security guard shot by a lone gunman at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has died.
The Anne Frank House museum said Friday it has restored 52 photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding from the Nazis
In a vacuum, Caramel might be just another frothy comedy. But set in Beirut, the small and tidy film carries a bigger promise -- about the possibility of a normal life.
Movies about inspirational teachers never go out of style.
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