Anne Frank (33 page)

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Adorno, Theodor, 218

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 241

Alfred A. Knopf publishers, 81

Allied invasion, 124–25, 127, 152

D-Day, 127, 237

Alter, Robert, 8, 170–71

American Jewish Committee (AJC), 191

American Mercury,
243

Amersfoort transit camp, 72

Amsterdam anti-Jewish laws, 34–39, 45

bounty paid for turning in Jews, 43, 53

general strike to protest Nazi repression, 35

Gestapo headquarters, 53, 72

Huis van Bewaring prison, 53, 72

incident at Koco ice cream parlor, 35

Jewish Lyceum, 36–37

Jews dragged from their house and taken to the Hollandsche Schouwburg, 50–51

Joodse Invalide (Jewish Hospital), 50, 102

mass deportations of Jews, 37, 116–17

Montessori school, 28, 36

Nazi collaborators in, 43, 70

Nazi invasion and occupation, 34

Otto Frank emigrates to, 26, 27

prison on Amstelveenseweg, 72

River Quarter, Jews in, 27

secret annex at 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40, 46, 63, 206 (
see also
annex [secret annex]) street roundups (
razzia
) of Jews, 35, 116–17

suicide of Jews, 34

“voluntary emigration” of Jews, 38

yellow stars worn by Jews, 38–39, 45

Anderson, Maxwell, 188–89

Anne B. Real
(film), 21

Anne Frank: A Hidden Life
(Pressler, ed.) 13–14 149–50

Anne Frank: A Portrait in Courage
(Schnabel), 30, 32, 56

Anne Frank Center, New York Cit 254

Anne Frank-Fonds, 163

Anne Frank Foundation, 161, 162–68, 174, 275

“Anne Frank—A History for Today,” 163–64

Anne Frank Foundation (cont.) attacks on the diary’s authenticity and, 248

Audrey Hepburn and, 229

damages paid to by Holocaust denier, 244

exhibition in Boise and park, 239

Mariela Chyrikins and, 163–65

Norbert Hinterleitner and, 165–66, 167, 173

programs about tolerance, for the Ukraine, 165–66

purpose of, 163, 173, 174

Anne Frank Museum, 159–62, 163 creation of, 160–61

letter from Meyer Levin to the
Book Review
at, 184

marks on doorway, of Anne’s and Margot’s growth, 65, 67

number of visitors, 161

pictures on the walls of Anne’s room, 162, 206, 225

Primo Levi quotation on wall, 160, 171

scale model of the secret annex, 161–62

Shelley Winters’ Oscar donated to, 235

unfurnished rooms of, 160

video of Hanneli (“Lies”), talking about Anne’s final days, 57, 160

visit to, 159–60

Web site survey on teaching of
The Diary,
253–54

Anne Frank Remembered
(film), 20, 69, 70, 73

Anne Frank Remembered
(Gies), 6–7, 69–70, 123

Anne Frank’s Diary, A Hoax
(Felderer), 244–47

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical

Documents
(Kopf), 263

Anne no Nikki
(anime cartoon), 21

annex (secret annex).
See also
Anne Frank Museum

Anne’s papers salvaged from, 52

arrest of occupants and arresting officer, 63–67

arrival of Frank family in, 49–50

chestnut tree outside, 22, 162

conditions in, 100

conversion from laboratory to hiding place, 46–47

described in
The Diary,
98

deteriorating conditions and lack of food, 24

fate of occupants, 55–56, 59–60, 73, 112, 127

floor plan, 149

food for, 47

garret, 162

as
Het Acherhuis,
12

length of time before occupants discovered, 51

location of, in building, 12

origin of idea of using as hiding place, 46

photos of occupants, 160

pilgrimages to, by fans, 161

playwrights visit, 206

scale model, 161–62

stripping of furniture after occupants arrest, 72

tedium of life in 100–101

at 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40, 46, 63

who betrayed the occupants, 51–52

Argentina, 163–64

bombing of AMIA Jewish Community Center, 164

dictatorship and Dirty War, 164–65

Atkinson, Brooks, 216–17

Auschwitz Anne arrives in, hair shaved, arm tattooed, 55

Anne in scabies block, 56

deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to, 42

descriptions of, 55

film clip of liberation on YouTube, 237–38

last train to, carrying the Franks, 55

liberation by Russian army, 56, 60

liberation of Otto Frank, 73

male occupants of the annex at, 59

secret annex residents sent to, 45

survivors of, 60

transports from Westerbok, 53, 55

Women’s Block 29, 55

Ballif, Algene, 217–18

Bard College, 271–77

Baschwitz, Kurt, 77

Baumel, Judith Tydor, 263

Bep.
See
Voskuijl, Elizabeth “Bep”

Bell Academy, Queens, New York, 268–69

Bergen-Belsen camp

Anne’s death at, 4, 50, 56, 160, 170

conditions at, 56–58

Hanneli Goslar in, 50, 57

liberation by British, 58

mass grave at, 178, 180, 218

nurse at, 54

Berghaus textile company, 160–61

Berlin Holocaust Memorial, 160

Berryman, John, 3, 7, 93, 98, 109, 121–22, 215–16

Bettelheim, Bruno, 166–67, 168

Beymer, Richard, 233

Blair, Jon, 20, 69

Bloom, Harold, 8

Bloomgarden, Kermit, 191, 192, 193, 200, 202, 203, 207

Boatman, Robert, 239–40

Bolkestein, Gerrit, 11, 12, 79, 139

broadcast of, as personal directive to Anne Frank, 134

Brandes-Brilleslijper, Janny, 54, 55, 58, 73

Branouw, David, 17

Brantley, Ben, 221

Buchenwald camp, 35

Buddeberg, Heinrich, 241

Buruma, Ian, 83, 167, 168

Calmann Lévy publishers, 82

Camino Real
(Williams), 200

Canby, Vincent, 221

Cauvern, Albert, 77, 242

Chaplin, Charlie, 247

Chenoweth, Helen, 239–40

“Child’s Voice, A” (Romein), 78

Chile, 165

Anne Frank Foundation program at Villa Grimaldi, 165

Chomsky, Noam, 244

Chyrikins, Mariela, 163–65, 167, 173, 174, 269

Commentary
magazine, 3, 82–83

review of Goodrich-Hackett
adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank,
217–18

review of Kesselman adaptation
of The Diary of Anne Frank,
221

Commonweal
magazine, 88

Crawford, Cheryl, 190–91, 192, 199, 200

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
(German edition), 80, 218

Days and Nights: page 121, lines 11 and 12
(Weitz), 21

Destruction of the Dutch Jews, The
(Presser), 37–38

“Development of Anne Frank, The” (Berryman), 3, 7, 98

Diary of Anne Frank, The: Cliffs Notes
(Shefer-Vanson), 253

Diary of Anne Frank, The or Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
(“c” version, 1947), 16–17, 18, 89–128

accounts of Anne’s darkest moments, 76

adolescence depicted in, 5, 92–93, 104, 115

afterword, 56

Allied invasion and, 124–25, 127

bathing arrangements, 101

beginning the diary (restored passage by Otto), 96, 133

books read in the annex, 105

Diary of Anne Frank, The
(cont.) characterization in, 98, 103–8, 110–21, 145–46

comical interludes, 122–24

compassion in, 95

contrition rising from, 171–72

cover, Anne’s photograph, 84–85

criticism of edited content, 174

critics’ evaluation of, 8, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 87–88

debate evoked by, 174

denial of authenticity, 241–49

dramatic incidents, 121–25

Dutch edition, 78–80

ending of, 96

entry of August 1, 1944 (final entry), 10, 15

entry of June 12, 1942, 10, 96

entry of May 3, 1944, 168–69

entry of November 7, 1942 (family fight), 121

eye for detail, 98–101

family life in, 5, 121–22

famous passage about human goodness, 169–70, 198, 220

fear conveyed by, 95

first entry/entries, content of, 96–97

form of, 93–94

French edition, 82

game, fantasies of liberation, 102

German edition, 80

Goodrich-Hackett as writers, 193, 196, 197, 200–207

as great memoir and spiritual confession, 9

historical context, importance of, 172

Holland during World War II and, 126

as Holocaust document, 5, 79, 126, 127, 170

in Japan, 20

as literary classic/masterpiece, 19–20, 69, 77, 89, 183

literary merit of, 5, 7–8, 9, 83 longevity of, 9

“manners” in the annex, 100

mealtimes, 101–2

as memoir, 13–14

message of, 166–75

moments of detachment and lyrical passage in, 94–95

myth that diary was not revised and rewritten, 88

narrative voice, 5, 89–90, 91–92, 94, 97

novelistic qualities, 5

occupants respond to Anne’s query on their diet, 102–3

Otto Frank’s edit and deletions, 6, 13, 15–16, 17, 74–77, 89, 96, 105–6, 108, 130, 131, 132, 133, 137, 139, 154

parents’ marriage depicted in, 99

passage in which Anne asks why God has singled out the Jews, 76–77

passages cut from the Dutch edition, 78

plans to publish
Het Achterhuis,
106

portrayal of Margot, 119–21

portrayal of Otto Frank, 103–5

portrayal of Peter, 112–16, 123

portrayal of Pfeffer, 75, 93, 102, 116–19

portrayal of the Van Pelses, 110–12

preface by Eleanor Roosevelt, 85–87, 185

prose style, 91, 130

published in the Netherlands as
Het Achterhuis,
78–79

publishing history, 77–88, 180–81, 218

read by prisoners, 19

relationship of Anne and her mother in, 4, 92, 105–8, 109–10

repressive measures against Jews in, 97

revisions of original writings made on loose sheets (“b” ver

sion) and, 14–15, 18–19, 128, 134 romance with Peter, 4, 16, 104, 113, 114–16, 119, 125, 139, 197

sex and sexuality in, 125–26, 265

teaching the diary and use in the classroom, 9, 19, 21, 154, 171, 253–77

technical proficiency, 5

tedium of life in the annex, 100–101

transformation of child to adult in, 93, 109–10, 139, 154–55, 215

U. S. edition, 80–88

vision of Lies (Hanneli) and Anne’s grandmother, 28, 109, 216

who the diary is addressed to, 90–91

wish to become a writer in, 6, 7, 12–13, 15, 68, 106

“witless barbarity” of fascism indicted by, 78

women, treated as inferior, 108–9

as work of art, 8

Diary of Anne Frank, The: The Revised Critical Edition
(1986, 2001) “a” version (original draft of diary), 16–17, 129–56

authenticity of the diary and, 247–48

“b” version (revisions of original writings made on loose sheets), 10, 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18–19, 79, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135–53, 154–55

beginning the diary, 132–33

bells of Westertoren, 51

blocks of added information to clarify daily rituals and quarters, 149

blowup over reading of a controversial work, comparison of versions, 146–47