This is the story of eight people—all of whom loved a little boy, and each of whom did their bit to keep him alive and raise him to manhood. And it’s also the story of that little boy now grown old with a passion to share his beautiful story, and of an institution determined to keep this love story alive for all to hear.

Anne Frank may have been looking out the window of her family’s Amsterdam hiding place at the moment on Aug. 13, 1943, when, in a hospital across town, a son was born to Martha van Cleef Fritz. A year later, Anne and her family would be turned in to the Nazis and sent to Bergen-Belsen, where the 15-year-old would succumb to starvation and illness just months before liberation.

That summer, the Jews of Holland were already banned from riding buses, owning businesses and s

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