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Of the many enduring and iconic images of the last century, Einstein, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Churchill and FDR leap immediately to mind.

Pause for a moment and then add the name of Anne Frank to this select gallery of the famous, the powerful, and the uplifting. And note her place in this pantheon with added emphasis on Yom Hash­oah, just weeks after her yahrzeit.

Frank would have been 84 had she not died, just shy of her 16th birthday, in Bergen-Belson. The typhus epidemic that killed her overwhelmed the concentration camp in 1945, during the waning weeks of World War II. Her remains rest in a mass grave with thousands of other victims of the Shoah at a site that now bears a memorial to her and her sister, Margot, and has become a magnet for pilgrims of all faiths vowing never to forget.

Documentary tells the story of a couple who went to Europe to save young Jews

Liz Perle was 19 when her grandfather died and 33 when her grandmother passed away.

Although Perle had a basic knowledge of what the Philadelphia couple had done just before World War II, it was not until decades later that she read her grandmother’s unpublished memoir closely and discovered that her grandparents were heroes.

“Gilbert and Eleanore Kraus simply did not talk about this at all once they resumed their lives,” said Perle’s husband, Steven Pressman, director of the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” to be shown on HBO on April 8. “It was not their style to do that.”

Although the Krauses’ two children knew their parents had helped rescue Jewish children from the Holocaust, it was left to the grandchildren to share the story with the public.

This year, Yom Hashoah falls on Sunday, April 7. There are many community observances. Here is a list, correct as of press time, showing the various offerings.

Documentary tells the story of a couple who went to Europe to save young Jews

Liz Perle was 19 when her grandfather died and 33 when her grandmother passed away.

Although Perle had a basic knowledge of what the Philadelphia couple had done just before World War II, it was not until decades later that she read her grandmother’s unpublished memoir closely and discovered that her grandparents were heroes.

“Gilbert and Eleanore Kraus simply did not talk about this at all once they resumed their lives,” said Perle’s husband, Steven Pressman, director of the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” to be shown on HBO on April 8. “It was not their style to do that.”

Although the Krauses’ two children knew their parents had helped rescue Jewish children from the Holocaust, it was left to the grandchildren to share the story with the public.

This year, Yom Hashoah falls on Sunday, April 7. There are many community observances. Here is a list, correct as of press time, showing the various offerings.

Of the many enduring and iconic images of the last century, Einstein, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Churchill and FDR leap immediately to mind.

Pause for a moment and then add the name of Anne Frank to this select gallery of the famous, the powerful, and the uplifting. And note her place in this pantheon with added emphasis on Yom Hash­oah, just weeks after her yahrzeit.

Frank would have been 84 had she not died, just shy of her 16th birthday, in Bergen-Belson. The typhus epidemic that killed her overwhelmed the concentration camp in 1945, during the waning weeks of World War II. Her remains rest in a mass grave with thousands of other victims of the Shoah at a site that now bears a memorial to her and her sister, Margot, and has become a magnet for pilgrims of all faiths vowing never to forget.