Anne Frank (35 page)

marriage to Edith Hollander, 24, 26, 76, 106

marriage to Fritzi Geiringer-Schloss, 29, 46, 83, 200

mealtimes, 101

message of Anne Frank and, 173–74

Meyer Levin and, 180, 182, 185, 186–87, 200, 202, 204, 210–11

Miep Gies and, 43–44

nervous breakdown, 87

Opekta spice and pectin business, 6, 27, 39–40

parenting by, 190

Pectacon business, 27, 39–40

plans to go into hiding, 40

portrayal in
The Diary,
103–5

post-war life and finances, 187–88

publishing of the diary, 77–84

reading of Anne’s diary, 73–74

relationship with Johannes Kleiman, 46

response to deficient diet, 103

response to letters from readers, 172

ruse to make neighbors think the Franks had escaped from Holland, 148–49

signs family up for “voluntary emigration,” 38

survival of and return to Amsterdam, 73

Swiss residence of, 203

thank-you letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, 86–87

theatrical adaptation of
The Diary and,
180–81, 186–91, 199–200, 203–4, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 222

tolerance and ethics of, 189

visa granted to Cuba, 41

in World War I, 25–26, 65

youth of, 24, 25–26

Frank, Robert (uncle), 25

Freedom Writers
(film), 21

Freedom Writers Diary, The, 21

Freud, Sigmund, 247

Geiringer-Schloss, Eva, 29

Geiringer-Schloss, Fritzi (later Elfriede Frank), 29, 83, 200, 206, 227, 228

Geiss, Edgar, 244

Germany (Nazi).
See also
Holocaust (Nazi genocide) anti-Jewish laws, 32, 34–39

anti-Jewish violence, 27

boycott of German-Jewish businessmen, 27

dehumanization of the Jews, 173

denial of the Holocaust and, 240

Germany (Nazi) (Cont.) emigration of German and Austrian Jews, 40

evil done by, 172

invasion of Holland, 33–34

Otto Frank leaves, 33

reality of Anne’s message and, 168

Wannsee Conference and “final solution,” 40–41

Ghost Writer,
The
(Roth), 4, 8, 11, 13, 21–22

Gies, Jan, 43–44, 48, 59, 242

in the Resistance, 45

Gies, Miep, 52, 242

arresting officer remembered by, 65

attempt to bribe Silberbauer into releasing the Franks, 71–72

on Auguste van Pels, 111

background and relationship to the Franks, 43–45

on Franks’ apartment, 34–35

identity card, 160

interruption of Anne at work depicted by, 6–7

introduced to butcher to provide annex with meat, 40

observation of Edith Frank, 107

Otto Frank finds a forgotten bean, 123

passage about cut by Otto Frank, 24–25

Pfeffer and, 117

preparation of the secret annex and, 48

recalls Otto Frank’s reading of Anne’s diary, 73–74

recovery and safe-keeping of Anne’s diary and writings, 70–71, 72, 223

in the Resistance, 45

survival of, 60

wedding and urgency of marriage, 44

willingness to help the Franks and others, 45, 59, 69–70

on yellow stars worn by Jews, 38–39

Gilford, Jack, 208

Ginsburg, Eugenia, 174–75

Goldstein-van Cleef, Ronnie, 55

Goldwyn, Samuel, 227

Goodrich, Frances, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227

Goslar, Ruth, 28

Graver, Lawrence, 177

Guatemala, 165

Guide for Using Anne Frank in the Classroom, A,
258–59

Hackett, Albert, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227

handwriting of Anne Frank, forensic analysis, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48

Hartog, Lammert, 52

Harwood, Richard, 243

Hazel, Doreen, 254–55

Hellman, Lillian, 177, 190, 191, 192, 193, 199, 201, 203, 205

Hendry, Teressa, 243

Hepburn, Audrey, 228–29

Heren, knechten, en Vrouwen
(van Ammers-Küller), 146–47

Hersey, John, 81, 183

Het Acherhuis
(Frank), 12, 13, 17, 39, 74, 78–79, 91, 106, 125–26

as Anne’s title, 12, 13, 264

intended opening, 132

introduction by Annie Romein, 79–80

Het Parool,
77–78

Heydrich, Reynhard, 40, 41

Hillesum, Elly, 54, 95

Hinterleitner, Norbert, 165–66, 167, 171, 173, 174, 269

Hitler and His Generals
(Irving), 243–44

Hoagland, Molly Magid, 221, 223

Holland.
See also
Amsterdam anti-Jewish measures instituted, 34–36, 133

bombing of Rotterdam, 33

collaborators in, 42–43

deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42

The Diary
as depicting war in, 126

Dutch capitulation and cooperation with the Nazis, 70

Dutch Resistance, 33–34, 43, 45, 54, 77–78

German invasion, 33–34

Jewish Affairs Section, Gestapo, 64

Jewish Council, 38, 42

Jewish population killed or deported during the occupation, second only to Poland, 42

Jewish refugees in, 33

Westerbork detention center, 33, 51, 53, 54–55, 95

Hollander, Oma (grandmother), 28, 109

death of, 39

Holocaust (Nazi genocide).
See also
Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Westerbork;
specific extermination camps
Anne Frank Foundation and education about, 164

denial of, 239–49

deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42

The Diary of Anne Frank
as one of the greatest books about, 5, 126, 127

“final solution” enacted at Wannsee Conference, 40–41

forced marches, 60, 145–46

mass deportations of Jews, 37

number of people killed, 254, 258

street roundups
(razzia)
of Jews, 35

teaching students about, 254–58

transport lists, 170

Hope Against Hope
(Mandelstam), 174

Hopper, Dennis, 208

Huber, Gusti, 208

“Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank, The” (Bettelheim), 166–67

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,
21

Into
That Darkness
(Serenyi), 173

Into the Whirlwind
(Ginsburg), 174–75

Irving, David, 243–44

Iskander, Sylvia P., 146–47

Israel Soldiers Theatre, 194

Jacobi, Lou, 208

Japan, 20

Anne no Nikki
(anime cartoon), 21

Jewish Advisory Council, 232

Jewish Lyceum, 36–37

Anne Frank writes about, 37

pantomime to communicate fate of missing children, 37

Johnson, Rebecca Kelch, 255

Jones, Judith, 82, 181

Jones, Stephanie, 259

Joop ter Heul
(van Marxveldt), 90–91, 148, 152

Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 50

Kalb, Bernard, 209

Kaletta, Charlotte, 59, 75, 117, 119

Kanin, Garson, 193, 205, 206, 207, 208–10

Kantrowitz, Andrea, 268

Kazan, Elia, 192

Keller, Michelle, 257

Kesselman, Wendy, 219–21, 248

“kitsch absolution,” 167

Kitty (invented confidante), 23, 39, 42, 90–91, 95, 96, 98, 115, 116, 127, 135

Kleiman, Corrie, 48–49

Kleiman, Johannes, 46, 48–49, 52, 147, 151, 161, 206, 237

aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 48

Anne’s pseudonym for (Koophius), 46

arrest of, 69, 71

coded correspondence with Otto’s family in Basel kept by, 48

return to Opekta and desire to read the diaries, 72–73

survival of, 72

Klemperer, Viktor, 95

Koco ice cream parlor, 35

Koestler, Arthur, 171

Kopf, Hedda Rosner, 263

Kugler, Viktor, 47, 48, 52, 64, 237

aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 49

arrest of, 69, 72

bookcase to hide annex constructed by, 49

as “Kraler” in the diary, 49 survival of, 72

Kuhn, Ernst, 81

Landau, Tina, 221

Langer, Lawrence, 168

Lapine, James, 219

Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, The
(documentary and book adaptation), 54, 57–58

Lavin, Linda, 220

Lederman, Susanne, 29

Les Maisons hantées de Meyer Levin
(Torres), 177

“Letters from Paris” (Flanner), 82

Levi, Primo, 160, 171, 175

Levin, Meyer, 87–88, 177, 241, 266

adaptation of
The Diary
for AJC, 191

at Bergen-Belsen, 178

lawsuit against Cheryl Crawford and Otto Frank, 207, 210–11, 241, 243

The Obsession
, 181–84, 194

review of
The Diary,
87–88, 181, 183–86, 202

settlement won by, 211

theatrical adaptation of
The Diary
and, 178–99, 201–2, 204–5, 216

theatrical adaptation written by, 193–99

Lewisohn, Ludwig, 171–72

Lewinsohn, Mr. (“Mr. Lewin”), 46–47

Lindwer, Willy, 54, 58

Literature, Persecution, Extermination
(Dresden), 170

“Literature as Invitation” (Probst), 261

Little, Brown publishers, 180

Lively, Pierce, 267

Love, Otto
(Weiss), 172–73

Mandela, Nelson, 162

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 174

Mapes, Elizabeth A., 262

Marks, Joseph, 194

Maus
(Spiegelman), 268

Mauthausen camp, 35

death of Peter van Pels in, 59

McCleary, Sara, 265

McCullers, Carson, 199–200

Mellor, William, 227–28

Melnick, Ralph, 177, 192

Member of the Wedding, The
(McCullers), 199

Menuhin, Yehudi, 179

Mermin, Myer, 191, 207

Miller, Arthur, 191

Molloy, James, 271

Montessori school, Amsterdam: Jewish children at, survival of, 35

Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education,
265–68

Mulisch, Harry, 8

Müller, Melissa, 117

“My First Day at the Lyceum” (Frank), 36–37

National Alliance (neo-Nazi group), 248

National Coalition Against Censorship, 265

Nederlander Am 219

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, 12

forensic handwriting analysis of Anne’s work, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48

Presser’s
The Destruction of the Dutch Jews,
37–38

publication of
Revised Critical Edition,
16

publication of
The Critical Edition,
16

Neuengamme camp, 59, 118

Neutral Milk Hotel, 21

Newman, Arnold, 233

Newsweek
review of play, 216–17

New Yorker
Janet Flanner article, 82, 180

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

New York Review of Books, 83

New York Times
report on attacks on the diary’s authenticity, 248

review of Goodrich-Hackett play adaptation of
The Diary of Anne Frank,
216–17

review of Kesselman adaptation of play, 221

New York Times Book Review
assignment of reviewer, 87, 184–85

review of
The Diary,
87–88, 181, 183–86, 202

Nielsen, Harald, 241

“Not Even a Nice Girl” (Thurman), 7

Nussbaum, Laureen, 17–18, 135, 139, 154–55

Obsession, The
(Levin), 177, 181–83

Obsession with Anne Frank, An
(Graver), 177

O’Connor, Flannery, 88

Odets, Clifford, 190

Opekta Company, 6, 11, 27, 46, 47.

See also
annex (secret annex) front office, as part of Anne Frank Museum, 161

relocation to 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40

renamed Gies and Company, 49

Ozick, Cynthia, 170, 172, 173, 174, 178, 220, 222, 266, 267

Perkins, Millie, 230–31, 233–34, 236

Persepolis
(Satrapi), 268

Pfeffer, Fritz, 4

arrives at secret annex, 51, 93

Auguste van Pels and, 118, 123

as Dussel in diary, 44, 116

fate after discovery in annex, 59, 118

mealtimes in the annex, 102

Miep Gies and, 44

portrayal of in diary and Broadway play, 75, 102, 116–19

response to deficient diet, 103

Pick-Goslar, Hanneli (“Lies”), 6, 28, 29, 36–37, 50, 60, 109