Anne Frank's Neighbors: What Did They Do?

About Anne Frank's Neighbors: What Did They Do?:

Although Anne Frank’s Diary is the most widely read nonfiction book in the world after the Bible, little attention has been paid to her neighbors—the people who lived alongside the Jewish population as persecution intensified.

Mary Fillmore examines the choices they faced and the decisions they made in the face of those choices. Why did some people ignore the situation, while others felt compelled to resist? What can we learn from them as we face the humanitarian crises of our own time?

About Mary Dingee Fillmore:

After living in Amsterdam’s former Jewish Quarter, Mary Dingee Fillmore was gripped by the stories of the Holocaust and resistance in the Netherlands. She devoted thirteen years to researching and writing An Address in Amsterdam, an acclaimed novel about a young Jewish woman who joins the resistance. It was a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month, and won the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. As a writer and facilitator, Mary speaks and leads conversations to promote a fairer, more peaceful world. She earned an MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005, and She Writes Press published her novel in 2016.

This program is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council.  Mary Fillmore is a member of the Council's Speaker's Bureau.