Anne’s sister Margot was three years her senior. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. It's what makes this book so incredible. The original Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opened at the Cort Theater on October 5, 1955, ran for seven hundred seventeen performances, won the 1956 Tony Award for the Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1956. Anne’s first years. Unemployment was high and poverty was severe in Germany, and it was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his party were gaining more and more supporters. See more » The diary of Anne Frank was first published in the Netherlands on 25 June 1947. Among the most powerful accounts of the Nazi occupation, "The Diary of Anne Frank" chronicles the life of Anne Frank, a thirteen-year old girl fleeing her home in Amsterdam to go into hiding. Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. Zoe Waxman is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the author of Pocket Giants: Anne Frank (The History Press, 2015), a biography of Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition) - Kindle edition by Frank, Anne. 2 May 2017 | by craveloj – … Advertisement. But then again, the poignant mix of the tragic, the moving, and the life-affirming runs throughout The Diary of Anne Frank. In this astounding movie, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne tells firsthand how her Jewish family and their dangerous journey while hiding from the Nazi's in Amsterdam. The Anne Frank House, together with the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, presented on 15 May 2018 the hidden text on two pages covered up with gummed paper in the first diary of Anne Frank, with its red checked cover. Anne Frank wanted to be a writer. The book also suggests a new name of someone who could have betrayed the people in hiding. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Diary of Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition). And it's tragic, moving and life-affirming that she became a well-known writer around the world after her death in a Nazi concentration camp. The book gives deeper insight into the Frank family—that Edith Frank was far more gentle and humorous than portrayed in Anne’s diary, that Anne was “explosive,” and that Anne was able to cheer Bep when she was down or scared and vice versa. New texts from diary of Anne Frank revealed. Anne documented her family's plight of having to go into hiding in 1942 due to the German invasion in the Netherlands as part of WW2. The Diary of a Young Girl as told by Anne Frank is haunting, poignant and beautiful, with a keen sense of hope throughout. The Franks were hidden in a secret annexe, behind a bookcase covering a hidden entrance. Meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, Anne's diary remains one of the most widely read works of nonfiction in the world. The Diary of Anne Frank is the first, and sometimes only, exposure many people have to the history of the Holocaust. The concept of “Anne Frank Video Diary” was developed by the Dutch production company Every Media, which suggested the idea to the museum about two years ago.