Anne Frank Remembered
To know how the Frank family tried to save themselves from the Nazis, one has to read the journal of Anne, their daughter.
The Diary of a Young Girl has been sold 25 million times and translated into many languages. It has influenced a play and a movie too. For an adolescent who once wrote she did not want to be forgotten, it remains as a light post.
“Anne Frank Remembered” compiles rare documentary footages that concern the family of Franks such as an interview with Otto Anne’s father which was conducted in 1980 since he was the only survivor in his family from Nazi death camps. There are also touching interviews with Miep Gies among others; Hanneli Goslar being presented as last person alive who ever saw Anne Frank while still at large plus her description about what happened during latter days spent by this girl in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before dying together with her sibling due typhus fever infection.
Also shown is Peter Pepper whose dad Fritz Pfeffer stayed hiding together with them before being caught-harbored by Mrs. Gies when trying save his life again through hiding another time somewhere else; first meeting between her son (son) & himself should be noted because Mrs. Gies had never met him before this moment occurred throughout all those years elapsed since then until now where they are meeting each other face to face for first time ever after having heard so much about each other over radio waves etcetera.
These individuals serve as eyewitnesses not just towards Holocaust but also relating incredible spirit which resided inside young lady named Anne Frank; she may have appeared like ordinary girl but actually had some flaws like any other kids including having crushes on actors/actresses or occasionally flaring up anger hence wanting share stories written down within pages kept secret until so that everyone can read them which shows how desperately normal human beings yearn recognition even if it means becoming famous after death.
What makes movie unique from rest such movies about similar events where people were killed because they belonged certain racial or ethnic background is that it provides us with an opportunity to see only existing footage showing what she looked like during her lifetime while still alive which was recorded one day back in 1941 when Franks had not even gone into hiding yet; there happening wedding party downstairs street just below their third floor window where young Anne standing smiles waves at camera then turns away never knowing this would be last time ever seen again by anyone else apart from those who saw film afterwards during its screening period prior release date.
Jon Blair has written and directed “Anne Frank Remembered” which also featured Oskar Schindler documentary that inspired Spielberg’s film. He starts off by saying he doesn’t want to tell an only Holocaust story but rather quotes Otto Frank who once said his daughter’s diary wasn’t specifically about Jews’ experience with the Holocaust but represented bravery against all forms of oppression according N.Y Times report on new translation study guide prepared for Anne Frank Center USA which highlights different victims Hitler killed at death camps including political rivals, resistance fighters, homosexuals etcetera.
However out many faces remembered forever throughout ages none has stuck minds more vividly than those belonging Anne Frank among all others whose photographs can easily be recognized at a glance while reading through lines written down within pages kept secret until so that everyone can read them which shows how desperately normal human beings yearn recognition even if it means becoming famous after death.
In the movie, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close reads Anne Frank’s diary entries. At the end of the film, a passage is quoted in which she writes, “I still believe that people are really good at heart.” One would like to think that she died with that belief intact, but Hanneli Goslar remembers Anne in her last days: freezing, starving, weeping. All men are not good at heart, though many might be; if it were otherwise life wouldn’t be worth the effort.
When Miep Gies was interviewed she was in her eighties very ordinary and soft-spoken. She risked her life to hide Jews from Nazis during WWII and must have been one of those whom Anne was referring to.
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