AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank has found a Christmas postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist, a museum said Wednesday.
The postcard, with a picture on the front of a Christmas-decorated bell in the foreground and a snow-covered field behind it, was signed "Anne Frank" with no other handwritten message. Mostard said it was the second such card the museum had seen. "We know it's an original," she said.
The teacher, Paul van den Heuvel, found the Christmas greeting in a box of cards in the antique store owned by his father in the town of Naarden, 10 miles east of Amsterdam.
Van den Heuvel was gathering material on Anne Frank for his school to mark Liberation Day, the May 5 anniversary of the end of German occupation, when he came across the card. The museum was informed of the find Tuesday by a journalist.