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"The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging"  
8thGrade
First Appearance Tor.com
Collected The Best of Harry Turtledove
Illustrator Robert Hunt
Genre(s) Alternate history
Publication date January 8, 2014

"The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published at Tor.com on January 8, 2014. Click here to read the story. It was reprinted in the collection The Best of Harry Turtledove (2021).

It is a very narrowly defined alternate history story, with the sole Point of Divergence being limited to Anne Frank and her family successfully maintaining their hiding place until the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. It might be better described as an "alternate biography", as broader history is not obviously changed by Frank surviving, immigrating to the United States of America, and raising a family of her own.

The story has the elderly Anne Berkowitz (née Frank) recounting her experiences to an eighth-grade history class from a local middle school at the retirement home where she resides.

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