Posted on 09/20/2010 11:11:34 PM PDT by MamaDearest
Excerpt only Website: New documents found in Anne Frank's family attic
More than 6,000 letters, photographs, and documents were recently found in the attic of the Frank family home.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was an absurd fiction. See:
http://www.aish.com/ci/a/48965671.html
Anne Frank and her family were real.
The find was in Switzerland.
Treasures from the Attic - The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family by Mirjam Pressler, publisher: Random House, available March 15, 2011
The home they lived in before they went into hiding.
It was the Swiss home of Alice Frank, Otto Frank’s mother and Anne Frank’s grandmother. She had emigrated from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. Otto Frank and his family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, where they were safe until the Nazis invaded in 1940. They went into hiding in 1942 to avoid deportation. The eight residents of the secret annex were arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Otto Frank was the only one to survive the war.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385533393
“”Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank’s Family” by Mirjam Pressler
Random House, Hardcover, 416 pages On Sale: March 15, 2011
“A lost treasure trove (6,000 documents) from her grandmother’s attic about Anne Frank and her family, now woven into a chronicle.
An old lady dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law, Gertrude, steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of death—she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the effects. But Helene Elias wasn’t just any old lady, and none could put a price on what she left as an inheritance.
Helene Elias was born Helene Frank, sister to Otto Frank, and thus Anne Frank’s aunt. Alice Frank, the matriarch and grandmother of the family, left Germany for Switzerland in the 1930s, and though her family had scattered across Europe, she remained at the hub of their lives. They wrote voluminously, sent photos, visited for summer holidays and reunions, and of course wrote about them when they returned home. Alice kept every bit she could. It all sat upstairs in the house, which was eventually passed down to Alice’s grandson, Buddy Elias, Anne Frank’s childhood playmate, and his wife, Gertrude.
What Gertrude found has become an utterly engaging, endearing, and convincing account of a family that tells us who shaped Anne Frank, made her who she was. They believed themselves to be ordinary members of Germany’s bourgeoisie. That they were wrong is part of history—one that we celebrate here.”
Did Hillary Clinton tour the attic recently?
If this is the story about how he tried to find his family after the war I took it to mean where he lived after he was released.
Yes, it’s confusing but that’s what I took from the article.
Not the ‘attic’ where they hid. Where he lived after the war is what I took from the article. It talks about his efforts to find his family after he was freed.
If you were hiding an account from the SS, which would only be required in the event of your death, you would probably find some fairly secretive ingenius methods to hide the information. IMHO, not strange at all.
> Hmmm - sounds a bit fishy to me. You would think that such things would have been found a long time ago ...
I couldn’t agree with you more.
Something about he whole “Oh look, whe found a chest full of old letters and journals that we must have missed when we scoured the Frank attic monthly for the past 60+ years.”
This sounds like someone with a scheme to make money selling fabricated artifacts.
Through a newly discovered “diary”, they’ll find out Anne Frank was in favor of gay marriage, and considered global warming to be a bigger threat than Nazis, who were actually funded by the Bush crime family.
"The material is to be turned into a new book"
Emphasis on "New", as in modern, might be in order here.
They should check to see if there is a Kenyan birth certificate in the stack.
The 1950’s Hollywood version “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a mixed bag, in my opinion. Millie Perkins was too old (age 21) to play the 13-year-old Anne and didn’t look a thing like her, especially with her model looks and false eyelashes. Worst casting EVER in a movie. She came across whiny and obnoxious and a big chunk of the movie was devoted to her flirting with the attic boy. I think they could have done a better job telling Anne’s story.
Very suspicious indeed.
Anne Frank and her family were real.
I know it was fiction and I already know about the problems with it historically/technically. It was still powerful to me. And thanks for letting me know Anne Frank was real. /s
Yep, there were so many holes in the logic of that film.
I could say the same about "Life is Beautiful", but still I thought is was an excellent film.
The most powerful depiction of the Holocaust to this day remains "War and Remembrance."
Not so odd.
A few years ago two trunks were found containing some of Robert E Lee’s papers and letters as well as other Lee family memorabilia. The trunks belonged to his daughter and were in a bank vault.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2008/3/2008_3_26_print.shtml
Exactly! Not the hiding place but the attic of the family home.
That's the one, the young actress who played Anne was perfect. AFAIK it's the only version that depicts what happened to them after they were discovered.
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