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What will follow when the last survivors of the Holocaust have died? An exhibition in Berlin looks into how their legacy can be handled responsibly.
Anne Frank, in full Annelies Marie Frank, (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover), Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature. Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father, Otto Frank (1889–1980), a German businessman, took his wife and two daughters to live in Amsterdam. In 1941, after German forces occupied the Netherlands, Anne was compelled to transfer from a public school to a Jewish one. ...
From the blog of Beverly Kent Goldenberg at The Times of Israel
The director points to the role of antisemitism in the whitewashing of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
Now on stage, “Compulsion or The House Behind” considers a darker dramatization of her diary