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  Anne Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The diary was given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from June 12, 1942 until its final entry of August 1, 1944.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank ( May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) and Edith Holländer ( January 16, 1900 – January 6, 1945).
Margot and Anne were excelling in their studies and had a large number of friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jewish children could only attend Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum.
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 MSN Encarta - Anne Frank
Frank, Anne (1929-1945), German-Jewish diarist, known for the diary she wrote while hiding from anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during World War II (1939-1945).
Anne and the others in the group were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo, the German secret police, on August 4, 1944.
Anne and her older sister, Margot, were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died of typhus.
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 Anne Frank Remembered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On June 12, 1929, Anne, Otto and Edith's second daughter, was born, but just two years later the family had to leave their apartment (the landlord was a Nazi), and in 1933, after the family bank failed and Hitler assumed greater power, the Franks fled to Amsterdam.
Otto Frank had insisted the Jewishness be toned down in the early editions because of his belief, and one he felt Anne shared, that their suffering was universal and if presented as such would touch and enlighten more people.
The remembrance of Anne Frank is effected through the use of on-camera interviews with a rich source of persons who knew Anne and her family, from the time of her birth to just a few days before her death at Bergen-Belsen.
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 Anne Frank Remembered
Anne and her older sister, Margot, who was dying of typhus, had been placed in a barracks next to the entrance, where the icy wind blasted over them whenever the door was opened.
Anne, who believed that both her parents were dead (in fact, her fathe r, Otto, was the sole survivor of the family of four), had lost hope.
Frank, who died in 1980, appears in vintage film clips and is remembered as a protective and humane figure by Sal de Liema, a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz.
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 Anne Frank Remembered - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Anne Frank Remembered is a 1995 documentary film, made by Jon Blair, about the life of the diarist Anne Frank.
The documentary was made in association with Anne Frank House, Walt Disney Pictures and the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was distributed by Sony Pictures.
Blair filmed in the real locations of Frank's life, including the "Achterhuis" (where Anne and her family lived in hiding) in Amsterdam, and the Westerbork and Auschwitz Concentration Camps.
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 Anne Frank Remembered (1996)
In surprising, often emotional interviews with Anne's family, friends and her heroic protector Miep Gies, Anne's life serves once more as an unforgettable symbol of, and tribute to, the many lives lost in the Holocaust.
The story of the Franks before their capture fills about half of the documentary, so the rest of the show examines the terrible realities of life under heavy Nazi suppression.
Anne Frank Remembered appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.66:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 Gale - Free Resources - Women's History Month - Biographies - Anne Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank's diary is at once a candid self-portrait, a portrayal of domestic life, an account of people threatened with imminent death, a depiction of experiences and problems common to young adults, and an examination of universal moral issues.
Anne was remembered by a survivor of Auschwitz as a leader and as someone who remained sensitive and caring when most prisoners protected themselves from feeling anything.
Anne's writings had been left behind by the secret police in their search for valuables, and were found in the hiding place by two Dutch women who had helped the fugitives survive.
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 Metroactive Movies | Anne Frank Remembered
One woman interviewed in Anne Frank Remembered, a camp survivor in her 70s, was told by a guard that even if she did survive (and her death was inevitable, the guard said), no one would believe her tale.
Anne Frank Remembered fills in a lot of the blanks, ending with something extraordinary: a bit of moving footage in which Frank as a 12-year-old can be glimpsed, the only such film in existence.
Anne Frank Remembered also discusses some of the peripheral characters in the diaries: Peter Pepper, the son of Fritz Pfeffer, the dentist whom Anna disliked and called "Dr. Idiot," here defends his father's memory against the wrath of an adolescent.
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 Review: Anne Frank Remembered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During the second half of this film, we follow the ultimately-fatal journey that took Anne from her family's hiding place in Amsterdam to Gestapo headquarters to Auschwitz and, finally, Bergen-Belsen, where she died in February 1945 of typhus (one month before the camp was liberated by advancing allied troops).
Anne Frank Remembered interviews a number of people who knew Anne, either before or after she was sent to the concentration camps.
In making Anne Frank Remembered, Blair obtained the cooperation of the Anne Frank House and Museum in Amsterdam, and was granted permission not only to film in the actual place where the Frank family was hidden, but to re-create the furnishings.
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 Anne Frank remembered
Similar exhibits are being mounted at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and at the Kraushaar Gallery in New York.
Anne and Margot Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concen-tration camp in March 1945, shortly before it was liberated.
Anne and Margot had been sent to the camp from Auschwitz, while Pick and her sister had come via the Westerbork transit camp in Holland.
www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040618/frank.shtml   (625 words)

  
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Some carry with them images from Anne Frank's last days in Bergen- Belsen that even now, fifty years later, they are still unable to speak of, images, as Kenneth Branagh explains in his narration, of cannibalism and the depths of human degredation.
There is a suprisingly large number of extant photographs of Anne Frank (and even one brief glimpse of her in a motion picture taken in 1940 before the family went into hiding, as she watches a wedding party coming out of her apartment building.
Frank, except for some eyewitness descriptions of her and Anne and the older daughter Margot when they were in Auschwitz.
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 About Anne Frank Remembered
For the first time, the Anne Frank House permitted the recreation of the hiding place as it actually was at the time that Anne Frank and seven others hid there more than fifty years ago.
Eyewitnesses from Anne's early childhood through to the last people to see her alive in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp return to the locations rebuilding her complete life story from her childhood in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, her years in hiding and tragic death just weeks before the Allied victory.
After returning to Holland, Otto Frank devoted the rest of his life to the propagation of his daughter's message of tolerance and hope and furthering the fight against racism, descrimination and anti-Semitism.
www.sonyclassics.com /annefrank/misc/about.html   (212 words)

  
 Anne Frank Remembered
The documentary film ``Anne Frank Remembered,'' however, proves again and again that in remembering a historical event as horrific as the Holocaust, nothing brings home its reality with more shattering force than the verbal accounts of those who lived through it.
Anne, who believed that both her parents were dead (in fact, her father, Otto, was the sole survivor of the family of four), had lost hope.
It was she who rescued Anne's diary, which had fallen to the floor from Otto Frank's briefcase when the Nazis looted the attic.
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 The Anne Frank Internet Guide
Anne's famous diary does not only give a face and a voice to the victims of World War II, but it is also an impressive portrait of a courageous girl and a talented writer.
The Anne Frank Center USA was founded in 1977 to educate people about the causes, instruments and dangers of discrimination and violence through the story of Anne Frank.
The Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin is the German partner organisation of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
www.klab.caltech.edu /~ma/annefrank.html   (1863 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Frank Anne
Anne Frank (1929-1945) Anne Frank's world famous diary charts two years of her life from 1942 to 1944, when her family were hiding in Amsterdam from German Nazis.
Anne Frank is one of the most famous writers in Holocaust literature, even though she was still a teenager when she died in a concentration camp.
Anne Frank was only 13 years old when she and her family went into hiding in their "Secret Annex" in an old office building.
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 dOc DVD Review: Anne Frank Remembered (1995) - Printable
Remembered as naughty, spoiled, and impertinent, a very young Anne enjoyed being the center of attention and actively sought the spotlight.
Frank suffered frequent bouts of depression, and a recalcitrant Anne was not particularly sympathetic, often writing about her strained relationship with her mother in shockingly blunt and unforgiving terms.
Anne Frank Remembered masterfully paints one of World War II's most tragic and inspirational figures as a human being, not a saint, and revives her dormant legacy in a unique and totally successful manner.
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 Anne Frank Remembered (1995) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The tranche de la vie recounting of Anne's as well as her friends' childhood experiences from her former playmates are extremely moving.
The girl is Anne Frank, and is the only motion picture footage of her known to be existence.
Anne's brief bout with the silver screen continues to be one of the most haunting reminders of what could've been, hope unfulfilled, and the tragedy that was the Holocaust.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0112373   (609 words)

  
 Anne Frank
Anne, and her sister Margot, were the daughters of Edith and Otto Frank.
Frank was an enthusiastic amateur photographer and took many photographs of his wife and daughters both inside and outside the home.
Anne's youthful energy is captured by the photos which simultaneously documents the rise, the fall, and the resurrection of the Nazi movement from 1920 through today, bringing much of this century's history into a present-tense focus.
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 Anne Frank
The family was betrayed to the Germans in 1944, and at 15 Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Anne's diary was discovered by one of the family's helpers and after the war was given to her father, the only immediate family member to survive the
The Franks' Amsterdam hiding place is now a museum, there is a foundation established by her father, and institutions devoted to her exist in New York, Berlin, London, and other cities.
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 Anne Frank Remembered - DVD Store
Anne Frank Remembered, Blair obtained the cooperation of the Anne Frank...
Anne Frank s emotional relationships with friends and family will be illustrated today in dance and music during From the Pages of a Young Girl s Life: the Anne Frank Ballet.
Young, rascally Anne Frank, if not for the extraordinary circumstances of her life, may have grown up to be a writer, a movie star, or any of the other thousand things she dreamed and fantasized about, as any adolescent girl does.
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 Anne Frank Remembered on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blair also discovers previously unseen footage of her watching a 1941 wedding, the only known film of Anne to exist; it's a brief, but breathtaking image of a girl who inspired the world.
Blair also interviews Peter Pepper, who hid with the Franks, and Hanneli Goslar, who befriended Anne and her sister at camp and depicts the Frank girls' last days.
Gies, modest and not completely comfortable on camera, is so likable that she seems to embody Anne's touching words, spoken amidst the horror of their lives: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Kenneth Branagh narrates and Glenn Close reads Anne's diary excerpts.
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 DVD Savant Review: Anne Frank Remembered
The true account of Anne Frank's short life as recalled by her surviving friends and relatives is actually more captivating.
Jon Blair allied himself with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, a museum of the girl's life, and there is more than photo and filmed coverage here to tell the story.
Anne Frank Remembered is only a little more than half over when the Franks are captured - and the docu continues with the full account of the family's splitting up in the camps and their terrible fates.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1132frank.html   (582 words)

  
 Anne Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Diary of Anne Frank is the story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Anne Frank was one of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the second world war.
Anne Frank, was a young girl who lived during World War II when Hitler was determined to kill all Jewish people.
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 Amazon.com: Books: ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gies was the trusted employee to whom Otto Frank turned when his family was forced into hiding in their attempt to escape deportation and death.
Whereas Anne is probably the most "famous" Frank, Miep does talk about her from time to time, knowing that we would want to know her impressions of the little girl.
Detailing Anne growing out of her clothes, which Anne domcuments herself in her diary, is a particular moment that shows us Anne having to grow up, imprisioned becuase of her religion and for her safety.
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 Anne Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Maine, Germany on June 12, 1929.
On Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday she received a diary, she named it "Kitty" which she liked the best out of all her presents.
Some interesting facts about Anne Frank are, her full name is Annelies Marie Frank, she called her diary Kitty, her father was one of the many few people who survived and escaped the concentration camp and made a book about her diary.
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 Women's Equity Resource Center
In 1942, when Anne Frank was only 13, she and her Jewish-German family hid inside of several sealed-off rooms in the back of an Amsterdam office building to escape from the Nazis.
For the next 25 months, Anne and her family lived in the small rooms, waiting and hoping and scared.
In 1944, Anne and her family were discovered and sent off to concentration camps.
www.edc.org /WomensEquity/women/frank.htm   (183 words)

  
 Anne Frank Remembered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This subject cried out for a treatment similar to the one Paul Cox employed for Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh, in which John Hurt recited the text of Vincent's literate, moving letters to his brother Theo, while images of Van Gogh's art and of the Dutch countryside filled the screen.
I learned more about Anne's life by playing her dad in the mediocre play based on her diary (and don't bother asking why a teenaged Italian was cast as a middle-aged Jew -- that's high school theater in a nutshell).
If you'd never heard of Anne Frank prior to reading this review, it might be a worthwhile experience to see this documentary; if you've read the diary, there's definitely no need to bother.
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