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  Amazon.com: The Diary of Anne Frank: DVD: Millie Perkins,Joseph Schildkraut,Shelley Winters,Richard Beymer,Gusti ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and--in retrospect--too old for the part; but she is surrounded by an outstanding cast, including Joseph Schildkraut as Anne's patient father, Ed Wynn as a cranky dentist who moves into Anne's "room," and Shelley Winters as the loud Mrs.
Anne Frank triumphs, as the Nazis emphatically did not, in transcending the contradictions within herself, and as a consequence her idealism shines through at the end (even if this, too, was exaggerated for cinematic reasons).
Anne Frank wanted to be a writer, maybe live in Paris....but life didn't go the way she wanted it to.
www.amazon.com /Diary-Anne-Frank-Millie-Perkins/dp/B0000DJZ8P   (2534 words)

  
 Anne Frank
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 recorded mostly her hopes, frustrations, clashes with her parents, and observation of her companions.
Anne and her sister were transferred from the Dutch concentration camp, Westerbork, to Bergen-Belsen where they both died of typhus.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /annefran.htm   (1239 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Diary of Anne Frank Study Guide - Major Themes
Anne continually questions herself and spends most of the diary trying to figure out what kind of person she is. She berates herself for her selfishness, agonizes over the fate of her friends, and tries and tries to be "good" in the way her parents would like her to be.
Towards the end of the diary, she comes to the crucial conclusion that though she may not be the way others would like her to be, she is her own person and she respects herself.
Anne's quest for her identity is and the coming-of-age theme are the most significant themes of the book.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/frank/themes.html   (923 words)

  
 Anne Frank & Her Diary
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust.
During that time, Anne kept a diary in which she not only wrote about the horrors of war but the everyday problems of being a teenager.
Anne Frank faced the threat of discovery and death every day while living in the Secret Annex.
teacher.scholastic.com /frank/diary.htm   (491 words)

  
 Anne Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany.
The diary, which was given to Anne Frank on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.
Statue of Anne Frank, by Mari Andriessen, outside the Westerkerk in Amsterdam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Frank   (6391 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank Book Notes Summary by Anne Frank: Author/Context
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family, on June 12, 1929.
Anne and her older sister Margot grew up in a comfortable atmosphere, surrounded by loving parents and relatives, and received a good education.
Anne and Margot both were moved to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Germany, in October of 1944.
www.bookrags.com /notes/daf/BIO.htm   (988 words)

  
 David Irving & The Diary of Anne Frank
On the complaint of Anne's father, Otto Frank, the publisher excised the passage from later editions, apologised and made a financial contribution, not to Herr Frank, but to the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam.
This gigantic work, voluminously researched, proves beyond doubt that the diary is the work of a little girl named Anne Frank who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in an attic of an Amsterdam warehouse, and who died in a concentration camp.
The truth: During the prosecution in Lubeck in 1959 of two men who had asserted the diary to be a forgery, expert witnesses testified that all the handwriting in the diary manuscript was Anne Frank's.
veritas.nizkor.org /hweb/people/f/frank-anne/press/anne-frank-001.html   (1033 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank - Uncyclopedia
The diary of Anne Frank, the child prodigy and mathematical genius, was only discovered shortly after her very early death in 1945.
Anne resolved to begin a "Diary Project" in which the life of the entire nation would be chronicled, thus creating a vast reserve of propaganda to fight World War II with.
She and her three dogs, Toto, Lala, and Ann Coulter spent the remaining years of the war residing in a three bedroom apartment above the Kingdom of Hallmark, from which she spread love and bile to all the needy children in the world.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank   (776 words)

  
 Anne Frank
In 1942, Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse.
After the war, when it was clear Anne had not survived, the diary was returned to Otto Frank, and he was persuaded to publish it.
Anne Frank’s name is known around the world - the narrow canal side house where she hid is a museum that is visited by more than 600,000 people a year.
www.shoah.dk /Annefrank/index.htm   (178 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank Book Notes Summary by Anne Frank: June/July 1942
Anne thinks that it is an odd idea for someone like her to keep a diary because she does not think that other people will be interested in what a thirteen year old girl has to say.
Anne is nervous about the teachers' meeting, which will determine who in her class will move up to the next level and who will not.
Anne writes that she did not even have time to realize what was happening to her until Wednesday.
www.bookrags.com /notes/daf/PART1.htm   (965 words)

  
 THe Diary Of Anne Frank - URI
It was originally written in 1955 by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and their script was adapted by Wendy Kessleman with new material in 1997 and the latter version is the URI presentation.
It is the story of a 13 year old Jewish girl named Anne Frank who wrote of her experiences with her family and four other Jews hiding from the Nazis for almost two years in the claustrophobic "Secret Annex" of a factory building in Amsterdam.
She wrote of daily life, her adolescent conflicts with her mother, her deep bond with her father and of her first love, Peter as well as her hopes, fears and aspirations for the future and her continuing belief that people are really good at heart.
www.littlerhodytheater.com /diary_anne_frank.htm   (732 words)

  
 Hippodrome State Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank gave his daughter a diary when she was 13 years old, shortly before she and her family went into hiding in the annex of an Amsterdam office building.
The young girl's diary was a collection of her experiences as a child and in the secret annex.
Frank is sympathetic, emotional, and sincere--and his work is of particular note in his final monologue in which he shares the tremendous story of life AFTER the secret annex.
thehipp.org /diary_of_anne_frank_reviews.html   (2509 words)

  
 Anne Frank House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anne Frank was one of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the second world war.
Anne and Margot died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, only a few weeks before this concentration camp was liberated.
Anne's diary survived the war: after the betrayal it was found by Miep Gies, one of the helpers.
www.channels.nl /amsterdam/annefran.html   (295 words)

  
 Miep Gies and The Diary of Anne Frank
Miep Gies and The Diary of Anne Frank
When she wrote the diary, Anne changed all the names of the people in it, to protect them from Nazi retribution - except for Miep, whose first name remained the same.
Otto Frank decided to fulfill his daughter's wishes and arranged for the diary to be published in 1947.
www.auschwitz.dk /Miepgies.htm   (2241 words)

  
 The Diary Of Anne Frank: Studio Classics (1959)
Anne’s started to mature, and Peter develops a romantic interest in her.
She gives Anne an air of quiet coquettishness that doesn’t match the girl we saw in the first half.
The program covers the diary’s path to publication and other media, notes about George Stevens’ activities in WWII and how they influenced him, casting, issues connected to the film production, and historical information about the Frank family and the era.
www.dvdmg.com /diaryofannefrank.shtml   (2102 words)

  
 The Diary Of Anne Frank Summary
Struck by this speech, Anne Frank decided to publish a book after the war, of which her diary would provide the foundation.
To briefly summarise, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday on the 12th June 1942.
Everything is turned upside down on July 5th 1942.On this date, Margot, Anne’s sister, received a summons from the SS and the family departs to hide themselves immediately in Anne’s father’s workplace.
www.shvoong.com /books/autobiography/1400-diary-anne-frank   (588 words)

  
 Book Review: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, her parents, sister, another family, and an older gentleman were Jews in the Netherlands during the German occupation of World War II.
Anne had a friend who listened to all her thoughts during the next two years.
Anne was a person with great insight into the situation and her family.
www.jandysbooks.com /nonfic/annefrnk.html   (507 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Diary of Anne Frank is the true story of the 13 year old Holland youth who would, along with her family and a few others, spend two years in hiding in the attic of a spice factory in Amsterdam to escape the Nazis.
At first Anne finds their fugitive lifestyle almost romantic, scribbling her daily thoughts and feelings into the diary that she received for her thirteenth birthday.
"Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes from the Past": a 90 minute documentary which not only covers the making of the film, but also covers the history of the Frank family, including interviews with their descendants and friends.
www.classicsondvd.com /annefrank.htm   (629 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Books: Anne Frank,Eleanor Roosevelt,B.M. Mooyaart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps.
Anne tends to be remembered as the little girl who once wrote, "I still believe that people are really good at heart" in spite of her sufferings.
The diary of Anne begins when she is 13 years of age and the Jews are already wearing yellow stars in Amsterdam.
www.amazon.com /Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/0553296981   (2343 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi’s in Amsterdam for two years.
Anne Frank’s diary was probably the first work that people actually got too see what the Holocaust was all about.
The diary brings together her childhood and the only known surviving footage of Anne Frank.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper/5575/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank.html   (266 words)

  
 Hippodrome State Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl was first published in 1947 by Anne's father, the sole survivor of the Frank family.
Since then, the Diary has been translated worldwide in over 50 languages, found popularity in classrooms, on the silver screen and on Broadway where it received the Pulitzer Prize.
The Diary of Anne Frank is the true story of an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances whose voice erupts on the page with brilliance.
thehipp.org /diary_of_anne_frank.html   (328 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank
"The Diary of Anne Frank is based on the tragic bestselling diary of a young girl's real life account of her secret existence under Nazi persecution.
Together with another family, the Franks attempt to wait out the prospect of being discovered in a cramped attic adjacent a factory run by the resistance.
Anne (Millie Perkins) endures the hardship, danger and sadness of World War II, but never without hope and astonishment for a better tomorrow.
www.mediascreen.com /d/diaryofannefrank.htm   (285 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
IMDb > The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
This movie has Millie Perkins starring as Anne Frank who has an excellent performance and a brilliant narration.
Anne Frank also has chemistry with Peter Van Daan, a boy from the other family.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0052738   (399 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank
That is how "The Diary of Anne Frank," which opened last night at Weathervane Playhouse, came to the world.
She is at her best as the coquette and the little imp; making us realize how trying Anne Frank must have been to the others.
But more than anything else, it is the overpowering character of Anne Frank and Maggie Browning's sensitive, perceptive portrayal of her that makes "Diary" a delight.
www.wayneturney.20m.com /annefrank.htm   (687 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Diary Of Anne Frank: DVD: George Stevens,Diane Baker,Richard Beymer,Del Erickson,Dody Heath,Gusti Huber,Lou ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and--in retrospect--too old for the part; but she is surrounded by an outstanding cast, including Joseph Schildkraut as Anne's patient father, Ed Wynn as a cranky dentist who moves into Anne's "room," and Shelley Winters as the loud Mrs.
Further, as Otto Frank maintained, it was important that audiences realized that what his family and other Jewish people endured was not something restricted to Jews, but was, rather, an object lesson for the persecution of all people forced to endure the tyranny of genocidal regimes.
Anne Frank triumphs, as the Nazis emphatically did not, in transcending the contradictions within herself, and as a consequence her idealism shines through at the end (even if this, too, was exaggerated for cinematic reasons).
www.amazon.ca /Diary-Anne-Frank-George-Stevens/dp/B0000DJZ8P   (2148 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank
This is the fiftieth anniversary of the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary.
The Anne Frank Story, a seventeen-panel photographic and text exhibit from the Anne Frank Center in New York, was on display in the lobby.
For those used to seeing Anne portrayed as a naive youngster subdued by those around her, Kristin Norris is likely to be a shock...
www.joshcostello.com /diary.html   (528 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Diary of Anne Frank: Books: Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her diary is one of the most BORING stories I have ever read.
Anne's statement that "in spite of everything, people really are good at heart" shows that even close to death, love and hope survive.
The Van Daans, the Franks, and Dussel struggled in the toughest times of their life and grew to become a loving family of friends.
www.amazon.ca /Diary-Anne-Frank-Frances-Goodrich/dp/0822203073   (658 words)

  
 The Diary of Anne Frank — Infoplease.com
Anne Frank Biography (Holocaust Victim/Writer) - Biography of Anne Frank, Author of The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank's Family Secrets.(pages of famed diary removed by father Otto Frank for their negative portrayal of marriage)(Brief Article)...
Anne Frank.(five missing pages from Frank's diary, reportedly withheld by her father, will appear in a new edition)(Brief Article)
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0300734.html   (527 words)

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