Whoopi Goldberg, The View, and the dangerous erasing of what killed Anne Frank

Published September 28, 2026 10:00am ET



In July 1944, weeks before she was arrested, Anne Frank wrote one of the most hopeful sentences to emerge from history’s darkest chapter: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Months later, she was dead at Bergen-Belsen. She was 15.

For 80 years, the world has remembered her. We have read her diary, staged her story, built museums in her name, and taught generations of children two words: Never again. But remembering is not the same as learning. Nearly three years after Oct. 7, 2023, the question is not whether the world remembers Anne Frank. It is what the world remembers, and who is teaching it.

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