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A & E's Legendary Women Biography Series: Anne Frank - The Life of a Young Girl [VHS]
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David Janssen
Anne Frank
Recording label: A & E Network EAN: 9780767014090Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 076701409XFormat: Black & White, Color, NTSC, Release Date: 1998-11-11Universal product code (UPC): 733961143782Number of discs: 1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Description
Her Diary is one of the most widely read books in the world. Yet the time she spent hiding from the Nazis is but one chapter in her remarkable life. Anne Frank has become an international symbol of the horror and hatred of the Nazi regime emdash an innocent, intelligent young girl swept up by their voracious killing machine. The document she left behind (one of a very few things not taken when the German soldiers raided the "secret annex" of the Frank home in Amsterdam) is a remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit under the worst of conditions. In this moving BIOGRAPHY®, the details of Anne's life outside the attic are revealed. From the carefree days of her early childhood in Germany to the harrowing months she spent at Bergen-Belsen before succumbing to typhus, scholars and survivors tell what they know of the young girl who has become a worldwide icon. The story of her life is a tragedy, but the enduring message is one of hope and tolerance that will never die.
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No other 13-year-old girl in modern history has had as a profound effect on readers as Anne Frank. Born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, Anne, her elder sister, and her parents fled Germany in 1933 for the Netherlands to escape Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. This installment of A&E's award-winning Biography series, Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl, takes viewers back to her 13th birthday when she received the red-and-white-checkered diary she named Kitty. Just a few weeks later, Anne's Jewish family was forced into 25 months of hiding in the secret annex behind a bookshelf in her father's office. Her diary not only documents the life of a young girl, but the extraordinary circumstances she endured; Anne Frank has become "a symbol, a cause, an institution." Excerpts from Kitty were originally published in 1947 as Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex) and the acclaim was so widespread that an American edition, The Diary of a Young Girl, was published in 1952. Three years later it won the Pulitzer Prize. There have been Broadway plays and a 1959 Hollywood film based on the diary. A&E does an excellent job telling the story of Anne's life, and presents historical context with limited black-and-white photographs of Anne and her family, as well as footage from World War II. But most significant are the interviews with Anne's father, the only survivor of the 11 people who hid in the annex; Anne's childhood friends and Holocaust survivors; "Hello" Silverberg, the object of her school-girl crush; and her father's loyal assistant Miep Gies, who ultimately saved Anne's diary after Anne and her family were discovered and taken away to concentration camps. Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl describes why the young girl's gifted writing in a checkered diary has survived as a formidable force against prejudice and discrimination. --Cristina Del Sesto
Running time: 60 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
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