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{{Infobox short story
|pub_date = January 8, 2014
|image = 8thGrade.jpg
|ImageSize = 150px
|first appearance = Tor.com
|collected = [[The Best of Harry Turtledove]]
|illustrator = Robert Hunt
|genre = [[Alternate history]]
}}'''"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. [http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/01/the-eighth-grade-history-class-visits-the-hebrew-home-for-the-aging-harry-turtledove 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 Berkowitz|Anne Frank]] and her family successfully maintaining their [[Secret Annexe (Eighth-Grade History Class)|hiding place]] until the liberation of the [[Netherlands (Eighth-Grade History Class)|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 [[Junipero Middle School|local middle school]] at the [[Hebrew Home for the Aging|retirement home]] where she resides.  

==See Also==
* "[[The House That George Built]]", a story that's similar in structure, and focuses on an "alternate biography" of a historical figure: [[George Ruth|Babe Ruth]].
* "[[Cayos in the Stream]]," a story about [[Ernest Hemingway (Cayos in the Stream)|Ernest Hemingway]], which has some similarities to the "alternate biography" genre, but is a very different kind of story.

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