Anne frank the biography book
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Anne Frank: The Biography
Anne Frank Biography
by Melissa Müller
Read an Excerpt from the Book
With an Epilogue by Miep Giess
Translated by Robert and Rita Kimber
Metropolitan Books; 0-8050-5996-2; $23.00/$29.95 CAN; September1998
The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions.
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For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become the “human face of the Holocaust.”
Her diary of twenty-five months in hiding, a precious record of her struggle to keep hope alive through the darkest days of this century, has touched the hearts of millions.
Here, after five decades, is the first biography of this remarkable figure.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with family and friends, on previously unavailable correspondence, and on documents long kept secret, Melissa Müller creates a nuanced portrait of her famous subject.
This is the flesh-and-blood Anne Frank, unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting–Anne Frank restored to history.
Müller traces Frank’s life from an idyllic childhood in an assimilated family well established in Frankfurt banking circles t
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Anne Frank: interpretation biography
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A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary
“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”—Publishers Weekly
In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.
Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world. Writing alongside Anne rather than over her, Franklin explores the day-to-day perils of the Holocaust in the Netherlands as well as Anne’s ultimate fate, restoring her humanity and agency in all their messiness, heroism, and complexity.
With antisemitism once again in the news, The Many Lives of Anne Frank takes a fresh and timely look at the debates around Anne’s life and work, including the controversial adaptations of the diary, Anne’s evolution as a fictional character, and the ways her story