Van Maarsen stayed in touch with Frank’s father, Otto, and with the Anne Frank House. In 2020, she laid the first stone of a ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen, Dutch bookbinder later revealed to have been Anne Frank’s ‘best girlfriend’ She wanted nothing to do with ‘the Anne Frank cult’, she said: ‘I knew using Anne as ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen, who has died aged 96, led an unobtrusive life as an Amsterdam bookbinder until the late 1980s, when she owned up to being the “best girlfriend” referred to in The Diary ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen will never forget the sight of Anne Frank's shoes, left on the floor in front of her bed. The Franks had vanished, and the normally tidy home was in disarray.

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.

Van Maarsen stayed in touch with Frank’s father, Otto, and with the Anne Frank House. In 2020, she laid the first stone of a Holocaust monument in Amsterdam . Last year, she donated a book of ...

ORIGINAL, DIARY of Anne Frank, 1942. (credit: PICRYL) Remembering Jacqueline van Maarsen. On Friday, the Anne Frank House announced that van Maarsen had died on Feb. 13, at age 96.

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 ...

Jacqueline van Maarsen was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum and shared her memories of their friendship throughout her life. Ben Sales, JTA Feb 16, 2025, 10:48 PM (GMT+2) ...

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 ...