Editor’s Note: In 2014, I visited a small museum in Danville, Iowa dedicated to telling the story of two Iowa sisters/students who were pen pals with Amsterdam students Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, during the 1939/1940 school year. Just two letters were exchanged and then all communication stopped after Germany invaded Holland in May…
Ordinary Citizens Can Have Extraordinary Impact

From left, Irene Hasenberg Butter and Miep Gies in 1994. (Photo: Univ. of Michigan)