Sunday, April 29, 2018

The Diary of Anne Frank

This day in history
Today: 29 April 2018
Then: 30 April 1945

Adolf Hitler commits suicide.



Letter from the Monowai steamship
“
The closer we get to home the greater our impatience to hear from our loved ones. Everything that's happened the past few years! Until our arrest I don’t know exactly what caused it, even now, at least we still had contact with each other. I don't know what's happened since then. Kugler and Kleiman and especially Miep and her husband and Bep Voskuil provided us with everything for two whole years, with incomparable devotion and sacrifice and despite all danger. I can't even begin to describe it. How will I ever begin to repay everything they did. But what has happened since then? To them, to you to Robert (Otto's brother). Are you in touch with Julius and Walter? (Edith Frank brothers) All our possessions are gone. There won't be a pin left, the Germans stole everything. Not a photo, letter or document remains. Financially we were fine in the past few years, I earned good money and saved it. Now it's all gone. But I don't think about any of that. We have lived through too much to worry about that kind of thing. Only the children matter, the children. I hope to get news from you immediately. Maybe you’ve already heard news about the girls.[12]
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— Letter sent by Otto Frank on board the Monowai steamship 15 May 1945 on his way back to Amsterdam




Post-war life


After Anne Frank's death was confirmed in the summer of 1945, her diary and papers were given to Otto Frank by Miep Gies, who rescued them from the ransacked hiding place. Frank left them unread for some time but eventually began transcribing them from Dutch for his relatives in Switzerland. He was persuaded that Anne's writing shed light on the experiences of those who suffered persecution under the Nazis and was urged to consider publishing it. He typed out the diary into a single manuscript, editing out sections he thought too personal to his family or too mundane to be of interest to the general reader. The manuscript was read by Dutch historian Jan Romein, who reviewed it on 3 April 1946 for the Het Parool newspaper. This attracted the interest of Amsterdam's Contact Publishing, who accepted it for publication in the summer of 1946. Otto Frank is now recognized as a co-author of the diary.[13]
On 25 June 1947, the first Dutch edition of the diary was issued under the title Het Achterhuis ("The Secret Annex"). Its success led to an English translation in 1952, which subsequently led to a theatrical dramatisation and eventually the 1959 film version, The Diary of Anne Frank, with actor Joseph Schildkraut as Otto.
Otto Frank married former Amsterdam neighbor and fellow Auschwitz survivor[14] Elfriede Geiringer (1905–1998) in Amsterdam on 10 November 1953, and both moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he had family, including relatives' children, with whom he shared his experiences.
In response to a demolition order placed on the building in which Otto Frank and his family hid during the war, he and Johannes Kleiman helped establish the Anne Frank Foundation on 3 May 1957, with the principal aim to save and restore the building so it could be opened to the general public. With the aid of public donations, the building and its adjacent neighbour were purchased by the Foundation. It opened as a museum (the Anne Frank House) on 3 May 1960 and is still in operation.
Otto Frank died of lung cancer on 19 August 1980 in Basel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl
In the 1960s, Otto Frank recalled his feelings when reading the diary for the first time, "For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings."[23] Michael Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, wrote "Precocious in style and insight, it traces her emotional growth amid adversity. In it, she wrote, 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.'"
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Not-outside-for-2-years/-The-Secret-Annex/

Editions of the diary

  • Frank, Anne (1995) [1947], Frank, Otto H.; Pressler, Mirjam, eds., Het Achterhuis [The Diary of a Young Girl – The Definitive Edition] (in Dutch), Massotty, Susan (translation), Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-47378-8; This edition, a new translation, includes material excluded from the earlier edition.
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction) and B.M. Mooyaart (translation). Bantam, 1993. ISBN 0-553-29698-1 (paperback). (Original 1952 translation)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, Harry Paape, Gerrold Van der Stroom, and David Barnouw (Introduction); Arnold J. Pomerans, B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (translators); David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom (Editors). Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Doubleday, 1989.
  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler (Editors); Susan Massotty (Translator). Doubleday, 1991.
  • Frank, Anne and Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation (2003) [1989]. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-50847-6.
http://www.annefrankguide.net/en-GB/tijdbalk.asp?tij=0

Anne Frank may have been discovered by chance, new study says

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38349353


 


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