Book About Anne Frank In Attic
For those with an interest in anne frank s history this is a wonderful complement to the diary and other books on the subject.
Book about anne frank in attic. What didn t work was the cloying sentimentality in the writing style. Anne frank and her family spent two years hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the office of a family owned business in amsterdam. Her extended family did not know where or how otto frank s family spent the war until afterward. The nerves of the people in hiding were frayed with the constant air raid alarms the sound of the german defence artillery bombings and air combat.
As familiar as we are with images of anne frank francine prose writes in her provocative anne frank. For decades historians have debated who betrayed anne frank and her family. Based on letters and documents in her father s mother s attic this book fills in the story of the family from the 1800 s through anne s family s exile to the secret annex. 2 the franks and four dutch jews who were hiding with them were discovered by authorities on august 4 1944.
The film was broadcast as part of an ad hoc network kraft golden showcase network. After spending two years eluding nazi capture while in hiding in amsterdam the frank family was discovered on aug. That part was quite fascinating. Based on letters and documents in her father s mother s attic this book fills in the story of the family from the 1800 s through anne s family s exile to the secret annex.
The hiding of anne frank is a 1988 television film directed by john erman. The diary of a young girl also known as the diary of anne frank journal by anne frank a jewish teenager who chronicled her family s two years 1942 44 in hiding during the german occupation of the netherlands during world war ii. The book the life the afterlife as inured as we may think we are to the. Playwright william hanley received an emmy for his script.
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