Internet Resources
- Anne Frank: BiographyAnne Frank biography from history.com.
- Anne Frank Biography: Holocaust EncyclopediaThe 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.
- Anne Frank Center USAThe 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.
- Anne Frank HouseThe 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.
- The Otto Frank FileAnne 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 Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters
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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.
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Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl by
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
Call Number: Juvenile B F828fISBN: 9780553296983Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Diary of Anne FrankCall Number: Media PN1997 .D53 1994ISBN: 079398663XPublication Date: 2004-01-01Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of eight people who hide in an attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis.
Perspectives
Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary
Anne Frank lived a life filled with the enthusiasms and hopes shared by many young women coming into adulthood. But the times Anne lived in and wrote of in her diary made her simple life extraordinary. In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings to life the harrowing story of one young Jewish woman's struggle to survive during a period of history which must never be forgotten. "All libraries will want this: for classroom units studying the Holocaust, for kids reading the diary, for everyone who remembers it." - Booklist
Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa
Few people know that Anne Frank and her sister Margot had pen pals in the United States. The American girls were Juanita Wagner (who wrote to Anne) and her older sister, Betty. They lived with their mother in Danville, Iowa. Although they corresponded only once before the German invasion of Holland closed the borders, the letters give a picture of Anne, her sister and their life. Much like her diary, this first-hand account vividly recreates the times in which she lived.
Anne Frank
This book is an anthology of the disparate facts and interpretations of Anne Frank.
Anne Frank's the Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank's vivid account of her life while hiding from the Nazis has moved generations of readers. This invaluable new study guide contains a new selection of the finest contemporary criticism on The Diary of Anne Frank, plus an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography, and an index for easy reference. The Diary's legacy of hope... should not a sought in hard won moments of optimism. Rather it is found in the desire to fight despair through its painful representation in art. In this sense, the Diary allows us to experience a new form of a life narrative... By its very existence, this narrative is new as it redefines the heroism of resistance.Rachel Feldhay Brenner. The text that Anne Frank envisaged was to be both a personal statement and a record of the circumstances of her life. It was to be useful or give pleasure... This raises the thorny issue of whether the literature of atrocity can teach children about that which it describes.Nigel A. Caplan
Final Days of Anne Frank
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.
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