Claim: The family of Anne Frank sought (and was denied) refugee status in the United States.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Anne Frank
text: processed, due to circumstances such as the closing of the U.S. consulate in Rotterdam and the loss of all the paperwork there, including the visa application. Even if it had been processed, the U.S. government at the time was concerned that people with close relatives still in Germany could be blackmailed into becoming Nazi spies. The Frank sisters were excelling in their studies and had many friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jews could attend only Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum. Anne became a friend of Jacqueline van Maarsen in the Lyceum. In

title: Nathan Straus Jr.
text: United States. Despite receiving help from Nathan Jr. and other connections, the Franks' visa applications were denied. Ultimately, the entire Frank family was interned in Nazi concentration camps, with Otto the only member to survive to the end of World War II. In the years that followed, Otto published the diary of his daughter, Anne Frank, which described the family's life while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. That work, known in English as "The Diary of a Young Girl" or "The Diary of Anne Frank", is one of the most well known books about The Holocaust. It has been

title: Anne Frank
text: Pectacon as an advisor about spices. A Jewish butcher, he had fled Osnabrück with his family. In 1939, Edith Frank's mother came to live with the Franks, and remained with them until her death in January 1942. In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws; mandatory registration and segregation soon followed. Otto Frank tried to arrange for the family to emigrate to the United States – the only destination that seemed to him to be viable – but Frank's application for a visa was never

title: Anne Mactavish
text: international law Nuremberg Principle IV put them under legal obligation to avoid participating in the invasion of Iraq and the Iraq war. In order to avoid the punishment for desertion which they would face if they returned to the United States, they applied for refugee status in Canada. When Mactavish ruled against Jeremy Hinzman's application for refugee status on March 31, 2006, there was the following press coverage: Coverage included the following criticism from Alex Neve, who taught international human rights and refugee law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada,

title: Posthumous citizenship
text: other individuals or groups. In 2004 and again in 2007, Congressman Steve Israel sponsored a bill to grant posthumous citizenship to Anne Frank. Her cousin Bernhard Elias expressed misgivings about the idea, stating that Anne herself had wanted to be Dutch, and others including Emory University Institute for Jewish Studies director Deborah Lipstadt stated that the United States should not have the right to claim Frank's legacy after having rebuffed the efforts of her family and thousands of other Jewish refugees from Europe to immigrate to the United States in the early years of World War II. In 2013, Daniel

title: Hanneli Goslar
text: who lived in the same area but attended a different school, and later with Ilse Wagner and Jacqueline van Maarsen. In 1943, Hannah, her father, her maternal grandparents, along with Hannah's younger sister Gabriela ("Gabi"), were arrested and sent to the Westerbork transit camp, and then eventually to the exchange camp of Bergen-Belsen. Hannah was in a privileged section of the camp because her family had Palestine passports with them. Sometime between January-February 1945, Hannah was briefly reunited with Anne Frank, who was a less privileged prisoner imprisoned at the other side of the camp. Hannah passed Anne a package

title: Homeschooling international status and statistics
text: decision by a U.S. appeals court overruled this and denied the petition for asylum, on the grounds that Germany's law applies to every resident, and does not single out any specific religious group for persecution. A petition of March 2013 for granting full and permanent legal status to the family received a White House reply in August 2013 without comment on the legal case. In March 2014, the Supreme Court declined to hear the family's appeal, but the Department of Homeland Security granted the family indefinite deferred action status, allowing them to remain in the United States. In February 2015,

title: Edith Frank
text: rise of Antisemitism and the introduction of discriminatory laws in Germany forced the family to emigrate to Amsterdam in 1933, where Otto established a branch of his spice and pectin distribution company. Her older brothers Walter (1897–1968) and Julius (1894–1967) escaped to the United States in 1938, and Rosa Holländer-Stern left Aachen in 1939 to join the Frank family in Amsterdam. Anne Frank's cousin Bernhard ("Buddy") Elias has said that "Edith never felt well in Holland. Edith was "German", and she missed Germany. She did not learn Dutch very well. She did not feel at home in Amsterdam." In 1940

title: 2011–12 Los Angeles arson attacks
text: from the Nazis and their sympathizers," however the claims were denied. The minister of citizenship and immigration personally intervened in the Burkharts' case and requested that they be barred from refugee protection. The refugee claim was denied in 2009 and denied again by Canada's federal courts in 2010. Immigration officials believed Harry Burkhart was in the United States on a visa that was due to expire within two weeks of his arrest, but they could not find a visa file for Dorothee Burkhart. The government later said that it believed that Dorothee had entered illegally. Court documents identified her as

title: Margot Frank
text: She took Hebrew classes, attended synagogue, and in 1941 joined a Dutch Zionist club for young people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine to found a Jewish state, where, according to Anne, she wished to become a midwife. On July 5, 1942, she received a notice to report to a labor camp and the next day went into hiding with her family at her father's office building. They were later joined by four other Jewish refugees and remained hidden for two years until they were betrayed on August 4, 1944. Along with the other occupants of the hiding place, Margot

title: Elfriede Geiringer
text: Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank" was published. Elfriede Geiringer Elfriede Geiringer (née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of the World War II. She was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank. Elfriede Markovits was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She married Erich Geiringer and the couple had two children: a son, Heinz (born in 1926), and a daughter, Eva (born in 1929). The family fled first to Belgium and then to the Netherlands in 1938, where they settled

title: Otto Frank
text: to obtain visas for his family to emigrate to the United States or Cuba. He was granted a single visa for himself to Cuba on 1 December 1941, but it is not known if it ever reached him. Ten days later, when Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy declared war on the United States, the visa was cancelled. At age 53, Otto Frank took his family into hiding on 6 July 1942 in the upper rear rooms of the Opekta premises on the Prinsengracht. They were joined a week later by Hermann van Pels, who was known as Herman

title: Anne Frank: The Whole Story
text: entry. A few weeks later, on a normal Sunday in July 1942, Margot (:Jessica Manley), Anne's sister, receives a call-up from the :Germans to be deported to a "labor camp" in the :East. :Otto Frank (Ben Kingsley) moves his family into the now-renowned "Secret Annex", followed soon by Hermann and Auguste van Pels (:Joachim Krol and :Brenda Blethyn), their son Peter (:Nicholas Audsley), and Fritz Pfeffer (:Jan Niklas), the Frank family's :dentist. During their stay in the annex, the Van Pels family members are noted for their constant bickering. Fritz becomes Anne's antagonist, and Anne has her first serious relationship

title: Anne Frank
text: her life in or near Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of four and a half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the Franks went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked. From then until the family's arrest by the Gestapo in August

title: Edith Frank
text: the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and began their persecution of the country's Jews. Edith's children were removed from their schools, and her husband had to turn over his business to his Dutch colleagues Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, who helped the family when they went into hiding at the company premises in 1942. The two-year period the Frank family spent in hiding with four other people (their neighbours Hermann van Pels, his wife Auguste Van Pels and his son Peter Van Pels, and Miep Gies's dentist Fritz Pfeffer) was famously chronicled in Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, which ended three

title: Nina Graboi
text: with Jean Houston, Abraham Maslow, Stanley Krippner, and Alan Watts. Born Jewish in Vienna, Austria in 1918 as Gusti Schreyer, she fled the Nazis in the late 1930s and lived/worked as a refugee in London, England. While in Antwerp, Belgium on an extended visit, she married Jewish scarfmaker and Kishinev refugee Michel Graboi (whose father had been killed in the pogroms). Many European Jews who sought a safe haven from Nazi persecution, including the Grabois, had difficulty with the United States' restrictive immigration quotas and the complicated, demanding requirements for obtaining visas. In an attempt to immigrate to America after

title: Miep Gies
text: and David. Miep Gies Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santruschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) (), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) and four other Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached. Although she was initially

title: Posthumous citizenship
text: the Holocaust. Dutch nationality law makes no provision for a posthumous grant of citizenship. In 2004, a television programme about Anne Frank sparked public interest in granting her posthumous citizenship. Frank had moved to the Netherlands with her family while a young girl, and her father became a Dutch citizen after her death. A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stated that the ministry was trying to find a way in which this could be accomplished, but expressed her doubt that it would be possible. However, the proposal did not enjoy universal support; Patricia Bosboom of the Anne Frank House

title: Jeremy Hinzman
text: Iraq on moral grounds and thought the U.S. invasion violated international human rights standards." He was one of the first to have his application [for refugee status] rejected – a decision he unsuccessfully appealed to the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. His request to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court was rejected in November 2007. At that time, he filed for a pre-removal risk assessment with the citizenship and immigration department, which determines if a denied refugee applicant would be subject to torture, death or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment if returned

title: Elfriede Geiringer
text: Elfriede Geiringer Elfriede Geiringer (née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of the World War II. She was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank. Elfriede Markovits was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She married Erich Geiringer and the couple had two children: a son, Heinz (born in 1926), and a daughter, Eva (born in 1929). The family fled first to Belgium and then to the Netherlands in 1938, where they settled down as neighbours to the Frank family. Eva and Anne knew each other.