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A Christmas card written by Anne Frank, provided by antique store De Regenboog in Naarden, Netherlands on Wednesday. (AP) Last update - 10:10 24/04/2008 Anne Frank's Christmas card turns up in Dutch antique shop By The Associated Press Tags: Anne Frank, Nazi, Netherlands A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank has found a Christmas postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist, a museum said Wednesday. The card was sent in 1937 and addressed to Samme Ledermann, one of Frank's best friends, and postmarked from Aachen, a town just across the Dutch border in Germany, said Maatje Mostard, of the Anne Frank Museum. The postcard, with a picture on the front of a Christmas-decorated bell in the foreground and a snow-covered field behind it, was signed Anne Frank with no other handwritten message. Mostard said it was the second such card the museum had seen. "We know it's an original," she said. Advertisement The teacher, Paul van den Heuvel, found the Christmas greeting in a box of cards in the antique store owned by his father in the town of Naarden, 15 kilometers (10 miles) east of Amsterdam. Van den Heuvel was gathering material on Anne Frank for his school to mark Liberation Day, the May 5 anniversary of the end of German occupation, when he came across the card. The museum was informed of the find Tuesday by a journalist. "I don't know what he will do with it. We hope we can get it for our collection," Mostard said. The museum, which encompasses the small Amsterdam apartment where the Frank family hid from the Nazis for 25 months, has the largest collection of documents and papers on Anne Frank, whose diary is the most widely read book relating to the Holocaust. Anne, her parents and sister and four other Jews hiding in the apartment were arrested in August 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. The sisters were later sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where Anne died of typhus in March 1945, two weeks before the camp was liberated. She was 15. More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   JDate wins the 'Oscars' The leading Jewish dating Web site is an official honoree of the Webby Awards. 'Worse than Nazi camp' A Libyan envoy to the UN says the situation in Gaza is worse than in concentration camps.   1.   did she use her magic ball point pen? 23:52  |  history 23/04/08   2.   Doesn`t sound right 00:39  |  John smith 24/04/08   3.   #1 "history 00:43  |  casual observer 24/04/08   4.   WOW!! DO JEWS `CELEBRATE` CHRIST`S BIRTHDAY? 00:49  |  JACKAL 24/04/08   5.   Ball point pen #1 01:00  |  Steve 24/04/08   6.   A stupid Hoax - do your research 01:01  |  Truth about the pen 24/04/08   7.   #1 01:08  |  Einstein 24/04/08   8.   did she use her magic ball point pen? HA!HA!HA! :) 01:11  |  fed-up-with-lies 24/04/08   9.   ball point... 01:12  |  sandra chitayat 24/04/08   10.   invented "history" 01:30  |  anneie frank 24/04/08   11.   Wow. 1st commenter an antisemitic kook 02:35  |  Jeroen 24/04/08   12.   Ball Points 02:39  |  Darrell 24/04/08   13.   Are you retarded? 02:54  |  Mike 24/04/08   14.   History #1 2nd try 03:13  |  casual observer 24/04/08   15.   Idiots 03:18  |  Sabra 24/04/08   16.   Why does AP call it Xmas card 04:37  |  E in Cal 24/04/08   17.   What a nice gesture! 06:30  |  Mark Lincoln 24/04/08   18.   Anne Frank ...what a lovely girl 07:47  |  MarkKienan 24/04/08   19.   i`m not 07:53  |  sure about that? 24/04/08   20.   To Jackal 08:08  |  Shoshana Thomasson 24/04/08   21.   What`s the problem ? 10:25  |  G 24/04/08   22.   What`s strange about it? 16:04  |  Chaval 25/04/08

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