Anne FrankFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor other uses, seeAnne Frank (disambiguation).Anne Frank

Anne Frank pictured in May 1942

BornAnnelies[1]or Anneliese[2]Marie Frank12 June 1929Frankfurt,Weimar Germany

DiedFebruary 1945(aged15)Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, LowerSaxony,Nazi Germany

Nationality Germanuntil 1941 Statelessfrom 1941

Notable worksThe Diary of a Young Girl(1947)

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank(Dutch pronunciation:[nlis mari n frk],German:[anlis mai an fak](listen); 12 June 1929 February 1945[3]) was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussedJewishvictims ofthe Holocaust. Her wartime diaryThe Diary of a Young Girlhas been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city ofFrankfurtinWeimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or nearAmsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during theGerman occupation of the NetherlandsinWorld War II.The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year theNazisgained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported toconcentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister,Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to theBergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably oftyphus) in February or March 1945.[3]Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers,Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 asThe Diary of a Young Girl. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.Contents[hide] 1Early life 2Time period chronicled in the diary 2.1Before going into hiding 2.2Life in theAchterhuis 2.3The young diarist 3Arrest 4Deportation and death 5The Diary of a Young Girl 5.1Publication 5.2Reception 5.3Denials of authenticity and legal action 5.4Complaints regarding unabridged version 6Legacy 7See also 8Notes and references 9Bibliography 10External linksEarly lifeFrank was born Annelies[1]or Anneliese[2]Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 inFrankfurt, Germany, toOtto Frank(18891980) andEdith Frank-Hollnder(190045). She had one elder sister namedMargot(192645).[4]The Franks wereliberal Jews, and did not observe all of the customs and traditions of Judaism,[5]and lived in anassimilatedcommunity of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of various religions. Edith Frank was the more devout parent, while Otto Frank was interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both parents encouraged the children to read.[6]

Memorial stonein front of the Aachen house where Anne stayed with her grandmother

The apartment block on the Merwedeplein where the Frank family lived from 1934 until 1942On 13 March 1933, elections were held in Frankfurt for the municipal council, andAdolf Hitler'sNazi Partywon.Antisemiticdemonstrations occurred almost immediately, and the Franks began to fear what would happen to them if they remained in Germany. Later that year, Edith and the children went toAachen, where they stayed with Edith's mother, Rosa Hollnder. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt, but after receiving an offer to start a company in Amsterdam, he moved there to organize the business and to arrange accommodations for his family.[7]The Franks were among 300,000 Jews who fled Germany between 1933 and 1939.[8]Otto Frank began working at theOpekta Works, a company that sold fruit extractpectin, and found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in theRivierenbuurtneighborhood of Amsterdam. By February 1934, Edith and the children had arrived in Amsterdam, and the two girls were enrolled in schoolMargot in public school and Anne in aMontessori school. Margot demonstrated ability in arithmetic, and Anne showed aptitude for reading and writing. Her friendHanneli Goslarlater recalled that from early childhood, Frank frequently wrote, although she shielded her work with her hands and refused to discuss the content of her writing. The Frank sisters had highly distinct personalities, Margot being well-mannered, reserved, and studious,[9]while Anne was outspoken, energetic, and extroverted.[10]In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company, Pectacon, which was a wholesaler of herbs,pickling salts, andmixed spices, used in the production ofsausages.[11][12]Hermann van Pelswas employed by Pectacon as an advisor about spices. A Jewish butcher, he had fledOsnabrckin Germany with his family.[12]In 1939, Edith's mother came to live with the Franks, and remained with them until her death in January 1942.[13]In May 1940, Germanyinvaded the Netherlands, and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws; mandatory registration andsegregationsoon followed. The Frank sisters were excelling in their studies and had many friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jewish children could attend only Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the JewishLyceum. Anne became a friend ofJacqueline van Maarsenin the Lyceum.[13]In April 1941, Otto Frank took action to prevent Pectacon from being confiscated as a Jewish-owned business. He transferred his shares in Pectacon toJohannes Kleimanand resigned as director. The company was liquidated and all assets transferred to Gies and Company, headed byJan Gies. In December 1941, Frank followed a similar process to save Opekta. The businesses continued with little obvious change and their survival allowed Frank to earn a minimal income, but sufficient to provide for his family.[14]Time period chronicled in the diaryBefore going into hidingFor her thirteenth birthday on 12 June 1942, Anne Frank received a book she had shown her father in a shop window a few days earlier. Although it was anautograph book, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth[15]and with a small lock on the front, Frank decided she would use it as a diary,[16]and began writing in it almost immediately. While many of her early entries relate the mundane aspects of her life, she also discusses some of the changes that had taken place in the Netherlands since theGerman occupation. In her entry dated 20 June 1942, she lists many of the restrictions that had been placed upon the lives of the Dutch Jewish population, and also notes her sorrow at the death of her grandmother earlier in the year.[17]Frank dreamed about becoming an actress. She loved watching movies, but the Dutch Jews were forbidden access to movie theaters from 8 January 1941 onwards.[18]In July 1942, Margot Frank received a call-up notice from theZentralstelle fr jdische Auswanderung(Central Office for Jewish Emigration) ordering her to report for relocation to awork camp. Otto Frank told his family that they would go into hiding in rooms above and behind Opekta's premises on thePrinsengracht, a street along one of Amsterdam's canals, where some of his most trusted employees would help them. The call-up notice forced them to relocate several weeks earlier than had been anticipated.[19]Shortly before going into hiding, Anne gave her friend and neighbor, Toosje Kupers, a book, a tea set, a tin of marbles, and the family cat for safekeeping. As the Associated Press reports: "'I'm worried about my marbles, because I'm scared they might fall into the wrong hands,' Kupers said Anne told her. 'Could you keep them for me for a little while?'"[20]Life in theAchterhuis

Reconstruction of the bookcase that covered the entrance to the Secret Annex, in theAnne Frank Housein AmsterdamOn the morning of Monday, 6 July 1942,[21]the family moved into their hiding place, a secret annex. Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly, and Otto Frank left a note that hinted they were going toSwitzerland. The need for secrecy forced them to leave behind Anne's cat, Moortje. As Jews were not allowed to use public transport, they walked several kilometers from their home, with each of them wearing several layers of clothing as they did not dare be seen carrying luggage.[22]TheAchterhuis(a Dutch word denoting the rear part of a house, translated as the "Secret Annexe" in English editions of the diary) was a three-story space entered from a landing above the Opekta offices. Two small rooms, with an adjoining bathroom and toilet, were on the first level, and above that a larger open room, with a small room beside it. From this smaller room, a ladder led to the attic. The door to theAchterhuiswas later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered. The main building, situated a block from theWesterkerk, was nondescript, old, and typical of buildings in the western quarters of Amsterdam.[23]Victor Kugler,Johannes Kleiman,Miep Gies, andBep Voskuijlwere the only employees who knew of the people in hiding. Along with Gies' husbandJan Giesand Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, they were the "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. The only connection between the outside world and the occupants of the house, they kept the occupants informed of war news and political developments. They catered to all of their needs, ensured their safety, and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. Frank wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that, if caught, they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews.[24]

The house (left) at thePrinsengrachtin Amsterdam

Anne Frank house modelOn 13 July 1942, the Franks were joined by the van Pels family:Hermann,Auguste, and 16-year-oldPeter, and then in November byFritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family. Frank wrote of her pleasure at having new people to talk to, but tensions quickly developed within the group forced to live in such confined conditions. After sharing her room with Pfeffer, she found him to be insufferable and resented his intrusion,[25]and she clashed with Auguste van Pels, whom she regarded as foolish. She regarded Hermann van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer as selfish, particularly in regard to the amount of food they consumed.[26]Some time later, after first dismissing the shy and awkward Peter van Pels, she recognised a kinship with him and the two entered aromance. She received her first kiss from him, but her infatuation with him began to wane as she questioned whether her feelings for him were genuine, or resulted from their shared confinement.[27]Anne Frank formed a close bond with each of the helpers, and Otto Frank later recalled that she had anticipated their daily visits with impatient enthusiasm. He observed that Anne's closest friendship was with Bep Voskuijl, "the young typist ... the two of them often stood whispering in the corner."[28]The young diaristIn her writing, Frank examined her relationships with the members of her family, and the strong differences in each of their personalities. She considered herself to be closest emotionally to her father, who later commented, "I got on better with Anne than with Margot, who was more attached to her mother. The reason for that may have been that Margot rarely showed her feelings and didn't need as much support because she didn't suffer from mood swings as much as Anne did."[29]The Frank sisters formed a closer relationship than had existed before they went into hiding, although Anne sometimes expressed jealousy towards Margot, particularly when members of the household criticised Anne for lacking Margot's gentle and placid nature. As Anne began to mature, the sisters were able to confide in each other. In her entry of 12 January 1944, Frank wrote, "Margot's much nicer ... She's not nearly socattythese days and is becoming a real friend. She no longer thinks of me as a little baby who doesn't count."[30]

TheSecret Annexewith its light-coloured walls and orange roof (bottom) and theAnne Frank treein the garden behind the house (bottom right), seen from theWesterkerkin 2004Frank frequently wrote of her difficult relationship with her mother, and of her ambivalence towards her. On 7 November 1942 she described her "contempt" for her mother and her inability to "confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness," before concluding, "She's not a mother to me."[31]Later, as she revised her diary, Frank felt ashamed of her harsh attitude, writing: "Anne, is it really you who mentioned hate, oh Anne, how could you?"[32]She came to understand that their differences resulted from misunderstandings that were as much her fault as her mother's, and saw that she had added unnecessarily to her mother's suffering. With this realization, Frank began to treat her mother with a degree of tolerance and respect.[33]The Frank sisters each hoped to return to school as soon as they were able, and continued with their studies while in hiding. Margot took ashorthandcourse by correspondencein Bep Voskuijl's name and received high marks. Most of Anne's time was spent reading and studying, and she regularly wrote and edited her diary entries. In addition to providing a narrative of events as they occurred, she wrote about her feelings, beliefs, and ambitions, subjects she felt she could not discuss with anyone. As her confidence in her writing grew, and as she began to mature, she wrote of more abstract subjects such as her belief inGod, and how she definedhuman nature.[34]Frank aspired to become a journalist, writing in her diary on Wednesday, 5 April 1944:I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write ..., but it remains to be seen whether I really have talent ...And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that. I can't imagine living like Mother, Mrs. van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! ...I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that's a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?Anne Frank[35]She continued writing regularly until her last entry of 1 August 1944.Arrest

A partial reconstruction of thebarracksin the Westerbork transit camp where Anne Frank was housed from August to September 1944On the morning of 4 August 1944, following a tip from an informer who has never been identified, theAchterhuiswas stormed by a group of German uniformed police (Grne Polizei) led bySS-OberscharfhrerKarl Silberbauerof theSicherheitsdienst.[36]The Franks, van Pelses, and Pfeffer were taken toRSHAheadquarters, where they were interrogated and held overnight. On 5 August they were transferred to the Huis van Bewaring (House of Detention), an overcrowded prison on the Weteringschans. Two days later they were transported to theWesterbork transit camp, through which by that time more than 100,000 Jews, mostly Dutch and German, had passed. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals and sent to the Punishment Barracks forhard labor.[37]In her book describing the betrayal and transportation to Auschwitz of her own family,Eva Schloss, whose mother Elfriede "Mutti" Geiringer married Otto Frank after the war, tells of the trial of Nazi collaborator Miep Braams:Braams was the girlfriend of a Dutch resistance worker called Jannes Haan, and she was supposed to be helping him protect Jews and help the Resistance. As the war progressed, Haan became suspicious that his girlfriend was really a double agent for the Nazis: an awful lot of the Jewish families he entrusted to her were vanishing without trace, or being rounded up. When she became aware of his suspicions, Braams betrayed Haan to the Gestapo, and he was executed. It was later estimated that Miep Braams was responsible for betraying as many as two hundred Jewish families, including ours.[38]In April 1949, Braams received a sentence of six years.Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were arrested and jailed at the penal camp for enemies of the regime atAmersfoort. Kleiman was released after seven weeks, but Kugler was held in variouswork campsuntil the war's end.[39]Miep Giesand Bep Voskuijl were questioned and threatened by the Security Police but not detained. They returned to theAchterhuisthe following day, and found Anne's papers strewn on the floor. They collected them, as well as several family photograph albums, and Gies resolved to return them to Anne after the war. On 7 August 1944, Gies attempted to facilitate the release of the prisoners by confronting Silberbauer and offering him money to intervene, but he refused.[40]In 2015, a book by the Flemish journalist Jeroen de Bruyn and Bep Voskuijls youngest son, Joop van Wijk, alleged that Nelly Voskuijl, Bep's younger sister, may have betrayed Anne Frank's family. The authors found evidence that included that Nelly Voskuijl was a Nazi collaborator. She died in 2001.[41]Deportation and deathOn 3 September 1944,[a]the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to theAuschwitz concentration campand arrived after a three-day journey. On the same train wasBloeme Evers-Emden, an Amsterdam native who had befriended Margot and Anne in the Jewish Lyceum in 1941.[42]Bloeme saw Anne, Margot, and their mother regularly in Auschwitz,[43]and was interviewed for her remembrances of the Frank women in Auschwitz in the television documentaryThe Last Seven Months of Anne Frank(1988) by Dutch filmmakerWilly Lindwer[44]and theBBCdocumentaryAnne Frank Remembered(1995).[45]Upon arrival at Auschwitz, theSSforcibly separated the men from the women and children, and Otto Frank was wrenched from his family. Those deemed able to work were admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were immediately killed. Of the 1,019 passengers, 549including all children younger than 15were sent directly to thegas chambers. Anne Frank, who had turned 15 three months earlier, was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival and never learned that the entire group from theAchterhuishad survived this selection. She reasoned that her father, in his mid-fifties and not particularly robust, had been killed immediately after they were separated.[46]With the other females not selected for immediate death, Frank was forced to strip naked to bedisinfected, had her head shaved, and wastattooed with an identifying numberon her arm. By day, the women were used asslave labourand Frank was forced to haul rocks and dig rolls ofsod; by night, they were crammed into overcrowded barracks. Some witnesses later testified Frank became withdrawn and tearful when she saw children being led to the gas chambers; others reported that more often she displayed strength and courage. Her gregarious and confident nature allowed her to obtain extra breadrationsfor her mother, sister, and herself. Disease was rampant; before long, Frank's skin became badly infected byscabies. The Frank sisters were moved into aninfirmary, which was in a state of constant darkness and infested with rats and mice. Edith Frank stopped eating, saving every morsel of food for her daughters and passing her rations to them through a hole she made at the bottom of the infirmary wall.[47]

Memorial forMargotand Anne Frank at the formerBergen-Belsensite, along with floral and pictorial tributesIn October 1944, the Frank women were slated to join a transport to the Liebaulabour campinUpper Silesia. Bloeme Evers-Emden was slated to be on this transport, but Anne was prohibited from going because she had developed scabies, and her mother and sister opted to stay with her. Bloeme went on without them.[45]On 28 October, selections began for women to be relocated toBergen-Belsen. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank, and Auguste van Pels, were transported. Edith Frank was left behind and later died fromstarvation.[48]Tents were erected at Bergen-Belsen to accommodate the influx of prisoners, and as the population rose, the death toll due to disease increased rapidly. Frank was briefly reunited with two friends,Hanneli GoslarandNanette Blitz, who were confined in another section of the camp. Goslar and Blitz survived the war, and later discussed the brief conversations they had conducted with Frank through a fence. Blitz described Anne as bald, emaciated, and shivering. Goslar noted Auguste van Pels was with Anne and Margot Frank, and was caring for Margot, who was severely ill. Neither of them saw Margot, as she was too weak to leave her bunk. Anne told Blitz and Goslar she believed her parents were dead, and for that reason she did not wish to live any longer. Goslar later estimated their meetings had taken place in late January or early February 1945.[49]In early 1945, atyphusepidemic spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners.[50]Other diseases, includingtyphoid fever, were rampant.[51]Due to these chaotic conditions, it is not possible to say what ultimately caused Anne's death. Witnesses later testified Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock. Anne died a few days after Margot. The exact dates of Margot and Anne's deaths were not recorded. It was long thought that their deaths occurred only a few weeks beforeBritish soldiersliberated the camp on 15 April 1945,[52]but new research in 2015 indicated that they may have died as early as February of that year.[53]Among other evidence, witnesses recalled that the Franks displayed typhus symptoms by 7 February,[3][54]and Dutch health authorities reported that most untreated typhus victims died within 12 days of their first symptoms.[53]After liberation, the camp was burned in an effort to prevent further spread of disease; the sisters were buried in amass graveat an unknown location.After the war, it was estimated that only 5,000 of the 107,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands between 1942 and 1944 survived. An estimated 30,000 Jews remained in the Netherlands, with many people aided by theDutch underground. Approximately two-thirds of this group survived the war.[55]Otto Frank survived his internment in Auschwitz. After the war ended, he returned to Amsterdam, where he was sheltered by Jan and Miep Gies as he attempted to locate his family. He learned of the death of his wife, Edith, in Auschwitz, but remained hopeful that his daughters had survived. After several weeks, he discovered Margot and Anne had also died. He attempted to determine thefates of his daughters' friendsand learned many had been murdered.Susanne ''Sanne'' Ledermann, often mentioned in Anne's diary, had been gassed along with her parents; her sister, Barbara, a close friend of Margot's, had survived.[56]Several of the Frank sisters' school friends had survived, as had the extended families of Otto and Edith Frank, as they had fled Germany during the mid-1930s, with individual family members settling in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[57]The Diary of a Young GirlMain article:The Diary of a Young GirlPublication

Het Achterhuis, cover of the 1st edition of Anne Frank's diary in 1947, subsequently titled asThe Diary of a Young GirlIn July 1945, after theRed Crossconfirmed the deaths of the Frank sisters, Miep Gies gave Otto Frank the diary and a bundle of loose notes that she had saved in the hope of returning them to Anne. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. In his memoir, he described the painful process of reading the diary, recognizing the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more amusing episodes read aloud by his daughter. He saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone, noting, "For me it was a revelation ... I had no idea of the depth of her thoughts and feelings ... She had kept all these feelings to herself".[58]Moved by her repeated wish to be an author, he began to consider having it published.[59]Frank's diary began as a private expression of her thoughts; she wrote several times that she would never allow anyone to read it. She candidly described her life, her family and companions, and their situation, while beginning to recognise her ambition to write fiction for publication. In March 1944, she heard a radio broadcast byGerrit Bolkesteina member of the Dutchgovernment in exile, based inLondonwho said that when the war ended, he would create a public record of the Dutch people's oppression under German occupation.[60]He mentioned the publication of letters and diaries, and Frank decided to submit her work when the time came. She began editing her writing, removing some sections and rewriting others, with a view to publication. Her original notebook was supplemented by additional notebooks and loose-leaf sheets of paper. She created pseudonyms for the members of the household and the helpers. The van Pels family became Hermann, Petronella, and Peter van Daan, and Fritz Pfeffer became Albert Dssell. In this edited version, she addressed each entry to "Kitty," a fictional character inCissy van Marxveldt'sJoop ter Heulnovels that Anne enjoyed reading. Otto Frank used her original diary, known as "version A", and her edited version, known as "version B", to produce the first version for publication. He removed certain passages, most notably those in which Anne is critical of her parents (especially her mother), and sections that discussed Frank's growing sexuality. Although he restored the true identities of his own family, he retained all of the other pseudonyms.[61]Otto Frank gave the diary to the historianAnnie Romein-Verschoor, who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She then gave it to her husbandJan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled"Kinderstem"("A Child's Voice"), which was published in the newspaperHet Paroolon 3 April 1946. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence atNurembergput together."[62]His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in the Netherlands asHet Achterhuisin 1947,[63]followed by five more runs by 1950.[64]It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition, published in 1952 under the titleAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was positively reviewed. The book was successful in France, Germany, and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan, where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly was identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.[65]A play byFrances Goodrich and Albert Hackettbased upon the diary premiered in New York City on 5 October 1955, and later won aPulitzer Prize for Drama. It was followed by the 1959 movieThe Diary of Anne Frank, which was a critical and commercial success. BiographerMelissa Mllerlater wrote that the dramatization had "contributed greatly to the romanticizing, sentimentalizing and universalizing of Anne's story."[66]Over the years the popularity of the diary grew, and in many schools, particularly in the United States, it was included as part of thecurriculum, introducing Anne Frank to new generations of readers.[67]In 1986 theDutch Institute for War Documentationpublished the "Critical Edition" of the diary. It includes comparisons from all known versions, both edited and unedited. It includes discussion asserting the diary's authentication, as well as additional historical information relating to the family and the diary itself.[68]Cornelis Suijka former director of theAnne Frank Foundationand president of theU.S. Center for Holocaust Education Foundationannounced in 1999 that he was in the possession of five pages that had been removed by Otto Frank from the diary prior to publication; Suijk claimed that Otto Frank gave these pages to him shortly before his death in 1980. The missing diary entries contain critical remarks by Anne Frank about her parents' strained marriage and discuss Frank's lack of affection for her mother.[69]Some controversy ensued when Suijk claimed publishing rights over the five pages; he intended to sell them to raise money for his foundation. The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, the formal owner of the manuscript, demanded the pages be handed over. In 2000 theDutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Scienceagreed to donate US$300,000 to Suijk's Foundation, and the pages were returned in 2001. Since then, they have been included in new editions of the diary.[70]ReceptionThe diary has been praised for its literary merits. Commenting on Anne Frank's writing style, the dramatistMeyer Levincommended Frank for "sustaining the tension of a well-constructed novel",[71]and was so impressed by the quality of her work that he collaborated with Otto Frank on a dramatization of the diary shortly after its publication.[72]Meyer became obsessed with Anne Frank, which he wrote about in his autobiographyThe Obsession. The poetJohn Berrymancalled the book a unique depiction, not merely of adolescence but of the "conversion of a child into a person as it is happening in a precise, confident, economical style stunning in its honesty".[73]In her introduction to the diary's first American edition,Eleanor Rooseveltdescribed it as "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read."[74]John F. Kennedydiscussed Anne Frank in a 1961 speech, and said, "Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank."[75][76]In the same year, theSovietwriterIlya Ehrenburgwrote of her: "one voice speaks for six millionthe voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl."[77]As Anne Frank's stature as both a writer andhumanisthas grown, she has been discussed specifically as a symbol ofthe Holocaustand more broadly as a representative of persecution.[78]Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her acceptance speech for anElie Wiesel Humanitarian Awardin 1994, read from Anne Frank's diary and spoke of her "awakening us to the folly of indifference and the terrible toll it takes on our young," which Clinton related to contemporary events inSarajevo, Somalia and Rwanda.[79]After receiving a humanitarian award from the Anne Frank Foundation in 1994,Nelson Mandelaaddressed a crowd inJohannesburg, saying he had read Anne Frank's diary while in prison and "derived much encouragement from it." He likened her struggle against Nazism to his struggle againstapartheid, drawing a parallel between the two philosophies: "Because these beliefs are patently false, and because they were, and will always be, challenged by the likes of Anne Frank, they are bound to fail."[80]Also in 1994,Vclav Havelsaid "Anne Frank's legacy is very much alive and it can address us fully" in relation to the political and social changes occurring at the time in former Eastern Bloc countries.[75]Primo Levisuggested Anne Frank is frequently identified as a single representative of the millions of people who suffered and died as she did because "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live."[75]In her closing message in Mller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies expressed a similar thought, though she attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolises the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over. Anne cannot, and should not, stand for the many individuals whom the Nazis robbed of their lives ... But her fate helps us grasp the immense loss the world suffered because of the Holocaust."[81]Otto Frank spent the remainder of his life as custodian of his daughter's legacy, saying, "It's a strange role. In the normal family relationship, it is the child of the famous parent who has the honor and the burden of continuing the task. In my case the role is reversed." He recalled his publisher's explaining why he thought the diary has been so widely read, with the comment, "he said that the diary encompasses so many areas of life that each reader can find something that moves him personally".[82]Simon Wiesenthal expressed a similar sentiment when he said that the diary had raised more widespread awareness of the Holocaust than had been achieved during theNuremberg Trials, because "people identified with this child. This was the impact of the Holocaust, this was a family like my family, like your family and so you could understand this."[83]In June 1999Timemagazine published a special edition titled "Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century". Anne Frank was selected as one of the "Heroes & Icons", and the writer, Roger Rosenblatt, described her legacy with the comment, "The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern worldthe moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings." He notes that while her courage and pragmatism are admired, her ability to analyze herself and the quality of her writing are the key components of her appeal. He writes, "The reason for her immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work seemed a direct result of a ruthlessly honest disposition."[84]Denials of authenticity and legal actionAfter the diary became widely known in the late 1950s, various allegations against the veracity of the diary and/or its contents appeared, with the earliest published criticisms occurring inSwedenandNorway.[85]In 1957,Fria ord("Free Words"), the magazine of the SwedishneofascistorganisationNational League of Swedenpublished an article by Danish author and critic Harald Nielsen, who had previously written antisemitic articles about the Danish-Jewish authorGeorg Brandes.[86]Among other things, the article claimed that the diary had been written by Meyer Levin.[87]In 1958, at a performance ofThe Diary of Anne Frankin Vienna,Simon Wiesenthalwas challenged by a group of protesters who asserted that Anne Frank had never existed, and who challenged Wiesenthal to prove her existence by finding the man who had arrested her. Wiesenthal indeed began searching forKarl Silberbauerand found him in 1963. When interviewed, Silberbauer admitted his role, and identified Anne Frank from a photograph as one of the people arrested. Silberbauer provided a full account of events, even recalling emptying a briefcase full of papers onto the floor. His statement corroborated the version of events that had previously been presented by witnesses such as Otto Frank.[88]Opponents of the diary continued to express the view that it was not written by a child, but was a hoax, with Otto Frank being accused offraud.[89]In 1959, Otto Frank took legal action inLbeckagainst Lothar Stielau, a school teacher and formerHitler Youthmember who published a school paper that described the diary as "a forgery." The complaint was extended to include Heinrich Buddegerg, who wrote a letter in support of Stielau, which was published in a Lbeck newspaper. The court examined the diary in 1960 and authenticated the handwriting as matching that in letters known to have been written by Anne Frank. They declared the diary to be genuine. Stielau recanted his earlier statement, and Otto Frank did not pursue the case any further.[87]In 1976, Otto Frank took action against Heinz Roth of Frankfurt, who published pamphlets stating that the diary was "a forgery." The judge ruled that if Roth was to publish any further statements he would be subjected to a fine of 500,000 German marks and a six-month jail sentence. Roth appealed against the court's decision. He died in 1978, and after a year his appeal was rejected.[87]Otto Frank mounted a lawsuit in 1976 against Ernst Rmer, who distributed a pamphlet titled "The Diary of Anne Frank, Bestseller, A Lie". When a man named Edgar Geiss distributed the same pamphlet in the courtroom, he too was prosecuted. Rmer was fined 1,500 Deutschmarks,[87]and Geiss was sentenced to six months imprisonment. The sentence of Geiss was reduced on appeal, and the case was eventually dropped following a subsequent appeal because the statutory limitation for libel had expired.[90]With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, were willed to the Dutch Institute for War Documentation,[91]who commissioned aforensic studyof the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. They examined the handwriting against known examples and found that they matched. They determined that the paper, glue, and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written. They concluded that the diary is authentic, and their findings were published in what has become known as the "Critical Edition" of the diary.[92]On 23 March 1990, theHamburgRegional Court confirmed the diary's authenticity.[68]In 1991,Holocaust deniersRobert FaurissonandSiegfried Verbekeproduced a booklet titledThe Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach, in which they revived the allegation that Otto Frank wrote the diary. Purported evidence, as before, included several contradictions in the diary, that the prose style and handwriting were not those of a teenager, and that hiding in theAchterhuiswould have been impossible.[93]In December 1993 theAnne Frank Housein Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Funds in Basel filed a civil lawsuit to prohibit further distribution of Faurisson and Verbeke's booklet in the Netherlands. On 9 December 1998 the Amsterdam District Court ruled in favour of the claimants, forbade any further denial of the authenticity of the diary and unsolicited distribution of publications to that effect, and imposed a penalty of 25,000 guilders per infringement.[94]Complaints regarding unabridged versionAn unabridged edition of Anne Frank's work was published in 1995.[95]This version included Anne's description of her exploration of her own genitalia and her puzzlement regarding sex and childbirth, a passage that had previously been edited out by Otto Frank.[96]When Gail Horalek ofNorthville, Michigan, learned in March 2013 that her daughter's seventh-grade class was using this edition of the diary in class, she filed a complaint with the school district asking that an edited version be used instead. Horalek, who described the passage as pornographic, said the school should have obtained prior approval from parents before assigning the book. In 2010, school officials inCulpeper County, Virginia, stopped assigning the unabridged version after similar complaints were lodged.[97]Emer O'Toole ofThe Guardiannoted that "we [still] live in a society in which young women are taught to be ashamed of the changes that their bodies undergo at puberty to be secretive about them, and even to pretend that they don't exist."[96]Clem Bastow ofDaily Lifefound the complaint "infuriating".[98]Legacy

People waiting in line in front of theAnne Frank Houseentrance inAmsterdamOn 3 May 1957, a group of citizens, including Otto Frank, established the Anne Frank Stichting in an effort to rescue the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. TheAnne Frank Houseopened on 3 May 1960. It consists of the Opekta warehouse and offices and theAchterhuis, all unfurnished so that visitors can walk freely through the rooms. Some personal relics of the former occupants remain, such as movie star photographs glued by Anne to a wall, a section of wallpaper on which Otto Frank marked the height of his growing daughters, and a map on the wall where he recorded the advance of theAllied Forces, all now protected behindPerspexsheets. From the small room which was once home to Peter van Pels, a walkway connects the building to its neighbours, also purchased by the Foundation. These other buildings are used to house the diary, as well as rotating exhibits that chronicle aspects of the Holocaust and more contemporary examinations of racial intolerance around the world. One of Amsterdam's main tourist attractions, it received a record 965,000 visitors in 2005. The House provides information via the internet and offers exhibitions that in 2005 travelled to 32 countries in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America.[99]

Statue of Anne Frank, byMari Andriessen, outside theWesterkerkin AmsterdamIn 1963 Otto Frank and his second wife,Elfriede Geiringer-Markovits, set up the Anne Frank Fonds as acharitable foundation, based inBasel, Switzerland. The Fonds raises money to donate to causes "as it sees fit". Upon his death, Otto willed the diary's copyright to the Fonds, on the provision that the first 80,000Swiss francsin income each year was to be distributed to his heirs. Any income above this figure is to be retained by the Fonds for use on whatever projects its administrators considered worthy. It provides funding for the medical treatment of theRighteous among the Nationson a yearly basis. The Fonds aims to educate young people against racism, and loaned some of Anne Frank's papers to theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museumin Washington for an exhibition in 2003. Its annual report that year outlined its efforts to contribute on a global level, with support for projects in Germany, Israel, India, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[100]In 1997, theAnne Frank Educational Centre(Jugendbegegnungssttte Anne Frank) was opened in theDornbuschneighborhood of Frankfurt, where Frank lived with her family until 1934. The Centre is "a place where both young people and adults can learn about the history of National Socialism and discuss its relevance to today."[101]

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TheAnne Frank treein the garden behind theAnne Frank HouseThe Merwedeplein apartment, where the Frank family lived from 1933 until 1942, remained privately owned until the 2000s. After becoming the focus of a television documentary, the buildingin a serious state of disrepairwas purchased by a Dutch housing corporation. Aided by photographs taken by the Frank family and descriptions in letters written by Anne Frank, it was restored to its 1930s appearance. Teresien da Silva of the Anne Frank House and Frank's cousin, Bernhard "Buddy" Elias, contributed to the restoration project. It opened in 2005. Each year, a writer who is unable to write freely in his or her own country is selected for a year-long tenancy, during which they reside and write in the apartment. The first writer selected was the Algerian novelist and poet El-Mahdi Acherchour.[99]In June 2007 "Buddy" Elias donated some 25,000 family documents to the Anne Frank House. Among the artifacts are Frank family photographs taken in Germany and Holland and the letter Otto Frank sent his mother in 1945, informing her that his wife and daughters had perished in Nazi concentration camps.[102]In November 2007 theAnne Frank treeby then infected with a fungal disease affecting the tree trunkwas scheduled to be cut down to prevent it from falling on the surrounding buildings. Dutch economistArnold Heertjesaid about the tree: "This is not just any tree. The Anne Frank tree is bound up with the persecution of the Jews."[103]The Tree Foundation, a group of tree conservationists, started a civil case to stop the felling of thehorse chestnut, which received international media attention. A Dutch court ordered city officials and conservationists to explore alternatives and come to a solution.[104]The parties built a steel construction that was expected to prolong the life of the tree up to 15 years.[103]However, it was only three years later, on 23 August 2010, that gale-force winds blew down the tree.[105]Eleven saplings from the tree were distributed to museums, schools, parks and Holocaust remembrance centers through a project led by the Anne Frank Center USA. The first sapling was planted in April 2013 atThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Saplings were also sent to a school inLittle Rock, Arkansasthat was the scene of a desegregation battle,Liberty Park (Manhattan), which honors victims of theSeptember 11 attacks, and other sites in the United States.[106]Over the years, severalfilms about Anne Frankappeared. Her life and writings have inspired a diverse group of artists and social commentators to makereference to herin literature, popular music, television, and other media. These includeThe Anne Frank BalletbyAdam Darius,[107]first performed in 1959, and the choral workAnnelies, first performed in 2005.[108]The only known footage of the real Anne Frank comes from a 1941silent filmrecorded for her newlywed next-door neighbor. She is seen leaning out of a second-floor window in an attempt to better view the bride and groom. The couple, who survived the war, gave the film to the Anne Frank House.[109]

Anne Frank Center in New YorkIn 1999,Timenamed Anne Frank among the heroes and icons of the 20th century on their listThe Most Important People of the Century, stating: "With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity".[84]Philip Rothcalled her the "lost little daughter" ofFranz Kafka.[110]Madame Tussaudswax museum unveiled an exhibit featuring a likeness of Anne Frank in 2012.[111]Asteroid5535 Annefrankwas named in her honor in 1995, after having been discovered in 1942.[112]See alsoJudaism portal

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People associated with Anne Frank Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa(book) Tanya Savicheva a Soviet child diarist who endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.Notes and referencesExplanatory notes1. Jump up^Westra et al. 2004, p.196, includes a reproduction of part of the transport list showing the names of each of the Frank family.Citations1. ^Jump up to:abAnne Frank Fonds.2. ^Jump up to:abBarnouw & Van Der Stroom 2003, pp.3, 17.3. ^Jump up to:abcResearch by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed."New research sheds new light on Anne Franks last months". AnneFrank.org, 31 March 20154. Jump up^Mller 1999, preface:Family tree.5. Jump up^van der Rol & Verhoeven 1995, p.10.6. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.17.7. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.2023.8. Jump up^van der Rol & Verhoeven 1995, p.21.9. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.131.10. Jump up^Mller 1999, pp.129135.11. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.92.12. ^Jump up to:abLee 2000, p.40.13. ^Jump up to:abMller 1999, pp.128130.14. Jump up^Mller 1999, pp.117118.15. Jump up^van der Rol & Verhoeven 1995, p.3.16. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.96.17. Jump up^Frank 1995, pp.120.18. Jump up^Mller 1999, pp.119120.19. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.153.20. Jump up^Associated Press (4 February 2014)."Marbles that belonged to Anne Frank rediscovered".MSN.com.21. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.163.22. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.105106.23. Jump up^Westra et al. 2004, pp.45, 107187.24. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.113115.25. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.12021.26. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.117.27. Jump up^Westra et al. 2004, p.191.28. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.119.29. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.203.30. Jump up^Frank 1995, p.167.31. Jump up^Frank 1995, p.63.32. Jump up^Frank 1995, p.157.33. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.204.34. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.194.35. Jump up^Marcuse 2002.36. Jump up^Barnauw & van der Stroom 2003.37. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.233.38. Jump up^Schloss 2013, p.196.39. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.291.40. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.279.41. Jump up^Van Jaarsveldt, Janene (7 April 2015)."Sister of Anne Frank helper likely betrayed Frank family: book".NL Times. Retrieved8 April2015.42. Jump up^Morine 2007.43. Jump up^Bigsby 2006, p.235.44. Jump up^Enzer & Solotaroff-Enzer 1999, p.176.45. ^Jump up to:abLaeredt 1995.46. Jump up^Mller 1999, pp.246247.47. Jump up^Mller 1999, pp.248251.48. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.252.49. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.255.50. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.261.51. Jump up^Gedenksttten Bergen-Belsen.52. Jump up^Stichting, "Typhus", p.5.53. ^Jump up to:abCorder, Mike (31 March 2015)."New research says Anne Frank likely died a month earlier". Yahoo News. Retrieved13 April2015.54. Jump up^Park, Madison."Researchers say Anne Frank perished earlier than thought", CNN, 1 April 201555. Jump up^US Holocaust Memorial Museum.56. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.211212.57. Jump up^Mller 2013, pp.39, 4849.58. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.216.59. Jump up^Prose 2009, p.74.60. Jump up^Frank 1995, p.242.61. Jump up^Prose 2009, p.75.62. Jump up^Romein.63. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.223.64. Jump up^Prose 2009, p.80.65. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.225.66. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.276.67. Jump up^Prose 2009, pp.253254.68. ^Jump up to:abFrank 1989, p.102.69. Jump up^Blumenthal 1998.70. Jump up^Mller 2013, pp.342-344.71. Jump up^Levin 1952.72. Jump up^Michaelsen 1997.73. Jump up^Berryman 2000, p.78.74. Jump up^Rosow 1996, p.156.75. ^Jump up to:abcWestra et al. 2004, p.242.76. Jump up^"Kennedy Says Anne Franks Gift to World Will Survive Her Enemies".Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 21 September 1961. Retrieved27 April2014.77. Jump up^Graver.78. Jump up^Feldman 2005.79. Jump up^Clinton 1994.80. Jump up^Mandela 1994.81. Jump up^Mller 1999, p.305.82. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.22233.83. Jump up^Stichting, "Simon Wiesenthal".84. ^Jump up to:abRosenblatt 1999.85. Jump up^Prose 2009, p.241.86. Jump up^Frank & Holmer 2005, p.340.87. ^Jump up to:abcdStichting, "Authenticity of the Diary".88. Jump up^Lee 2000, pp.241246.89. Jump up^Prose 2009, pp.240249.90. Jump up^Stichting, "Legal rulings".91. Jump up^Lee 2000, p.233.92. Jump up^Prose 2009, pp.247248.93. Jump up^Faurisson 2000.94. Jump up^Stichting, "Ten Questions".95. Jump up^Boretz 1995.96. ^Jump up to:abO'Toole 2013.97. Jump up^Bennett-Smith 2013.98. Jump up^Bastow 2013.99. ^Jump up to:abAnne Frank House Annual Report 2005.100. Jump up^Anne Frank-Fonds Annual Report 2003.101. Jump up^Anne Frank Educational Centre website 2012.102. Jump up^Max 2007.103. ^Jump up to:abThomasson & Balmforth 2008.104. Jump up^Kreijger 2007.105. Jump up^Radio Netherlands2010.106. Jump up^Engel 2013.107. Jump up^Stevens 1989.108. Jump up^Chester and Novello.109. Jump up^Gabbatt 2009.110. Jump up^McCrum 2010.111. Jump up^Ferguson 2012.112. Jump up^Anne Frankat theJPL Small-Body Database DiscoveryOrbit diagramOrbital elementsPhysical parametersBibliography Barnouw, David; Van Der Stroom, Gerrold, eds. 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