Anne Frank shortlisted The Most Important People of the Century
You may not know, one of the interesting facts about Anne Frank, she shortlisted The Most Important People of the Century.
On their list of the Most Important People of the Century published in 1999, Time included Anne Frank as one of the heroes and symbols of the 20th century, noting that "with a diary preserved in a secret attic, she faced the Nazis and contributed a fiery voice to the battle for human dignity." She was referred to by Philip Roth as Franz Kafka's "lost little daughter." A display with an image of Anne Frank was displayed by the Madame Tussauds wax museum in 2012. After being found in 1942, asteroid 5535 Annefrank was given her name in 1995.
Over 270 schools have been named after Anne Frank as of 2018. One each in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Hungary, Israel, Nepal, Uruguay, and Sweden. There are 100 of them in Germany, 89 in France, 45 in Italy, 17 in the Netherlands (including the 6th Montessori School in Amsterdam, which Frank herself attended until 1941), 4 in Brazil, 4 in the United States (including the Anne Frank Inspire Academy), 2 in Bulgaria, and 100 in Germany. Of Maaleh, Adumim, a suburb of Jerusalem, the first in a series of Anne Frank Children's Human Rights Memorials was erected next to a high school in 2020. The second memorial was unveiled in Antigua, Guatemala, in 2021, and a third is being constructed in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and will be presented on January 27, 2022, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
