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Article: Little girl lost We thought we knew all about Anne Frank, the teenage refugee whose plight personified the Holocaust. But now a new film purports to tell some uncomfortable truths about her life, and even Steven Spielberg has been caught up in the bitter tug-of-war over her memory
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2001
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Anne Frank always wanted to be a world-famous writer. It was an
ambition that she recorded in her diary and that she achieved,
although not in the way she had hoped. Her true-life record of two
years spent hiding in an Amsterdam attic with her family before she
was sent to her death at Bergen-Belsen is now one of the most famous
books in the world. It humanised the Holocaust, bringing home its
terrible reality more than any number of academic accounts.
Her diary is certainly the best-known literary work of the Nazi
genocide, translated into 55 languages. Her face, full of
intelligence, vivacity and promise that would never be fulfilled, has
become, for many, the overriding symbol of the ...