Hope: A Tragedy, tracks the escapades of Solomon Kugel, a
schlimazel of a Jew who discovers an elderly Anne Frank living in his attic in upstate New York.
But does that really sound like Anne? Living in an attic in New York for decades? For one, getting an American visa in 1945, even for survivors, was extremely difficult. Second, one would think that Anne had had her fill of attics by that point.
No, a far more realistic scenario would be Anne Frank having moved to Palestine with tens of thousands of other survivors. Perhaps she would have even joined the Irgun! Lord knows she would not have become a