Holocaust: Concentration Camps, Survivors, and Historical Documents: Anne Frank

Anne Frank biography from history.com.

The story of Anne Frank is among the most well-known of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Her diary is the first encounter many people have with the history of Nazi Germany's attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.

The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect honors Anne Frank and the continuing relevance of her diary to educate young people and communities in the US about the dangers of intolerance, anti-Semitism, racism, and discrimination, and to inspire every generation to build a world based on mutual respect.

The Anne Frank House was established on 3 May 1957 in cooperation with Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father. We are an independent non-profit organisation that runs a museum in the house where Anne Frank went into hiding and we try to increase awareness of Anne’s life story all over the world.

Anne Frank’s diary and the story of her family’s two years in hiding are known around the world. What most people don’t know is how desperately her father, Otto, tried to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Netherlands – an effort detailed in a file of original documents discovered in YIVO’s archives in 2005.

The Oscar-winning Actress Helen Mirren retraces the life of Anne through the pages of her diary, and that of 5 other women who, as children and adolescents, were also deported to concentration camps but survived the Shoah. Off “the set”, a young girl, talking to her peers using social media, will lead us through Anne Frank’s short life and her feelings. In the documentary we also hear the voices of Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, historian and professor of Jewish studies at various American universities. Produced in collaboration with Anne Frank Fond Basel.

This film tells the stories of Anne Frank and Eva Schloss, whose young lives paralleled each other and whose surviving parents, Otto Frank and Elfriede Geiringer, eventually married. It features extensive interviews with Eva Schloss to help tell the story of her and Anne's brief friendship, their lives in hiding, and Otto's thinking after Auschwitz's liberation and learning of Anne's diary. The film examines who Anne Frank was as a person, Otto's decision to publish the diary, and the way his efforts promoted Anne Frank's ideals and her important legacy. Eva would be one of the first people to hear Otto read extracts from Anne's diary, a feat which he couldn’t manage to do without crying. Eva witnessed the publication and dramatization of the Diary of Anne Frank and became involved in the Anne Frank Foundation set up by Otto in 1963. In 1989 she created the Anne Frank Trust UK which aimed to share the message of the Anne Frank foundation to challenge prejudice and hatred.

Final Days of Anne Frank is the story of Anne Frank and the seven people arrested with her during the Holocaust. This is a hard-edged and compelling take on the well-known story of the German Jewish schoolgirl whose diary about hiding from Nazis in a secret annex for two years during World War II, became one of the world’s most widely read books. Historical footage and details about the Nazi death industry, the individuals who commanded it and suffered, and commentary and historical insights from respected writers, professors, and scholars brings the tragic story of Anne Frank to a larger context of history, philosophy, ethics, moral behavior, and the legacy of her life.