The proposed name change, reportedly at the behest of parents and employees who found Frank’s story difficult to explain to children, comes amid acute concern about rising antisemitism in Germany.
Mr. Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd, who has long been critical of Israel, has worn similar clothing in the past when playing songs from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall.”
Writers have long used diaries to make sense of life. Now, diaries can be shared in real time, helping shape public perception of events as they unfold — including war.
The two young women knew each other from kindergarten until their final encounter, on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The move came after five historians called into question the findings of the book, in which a “cold case” team sought to answer a long-running mystery.