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Article: AN EYEWITNESS RECOLLECTION OF ANNE FRANK.(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 23, 1996
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Byline: Amy Dawes Daily News Film Critic
Jon Blair's superb documentary - an Academy Award nominee - is the first to tell the story of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her family through the eyewitness accounts of survivors who knew them.
As related by Miep Gies, a family employee who brought food and news to the Franks' hiding place every day - and who preserved Anne's diary after the family was taken away from their secret annex by the Nazis - Anne's character comes very much to life. She was a saucy, spirited girl who wanted to become a famous writer, and did so, but only under the most tragic and remarkable of circumstances.
The Franks' ...