Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation is a TRUE superhero!
It is incomprehensible to imagine what Anne Frank endured in her young and short life nor is it possible to comprehend the terror that her family experienced. To me Anne Frank is without a doubt a true superhero of immeasurable proportions.
(Anne Frank's 81st Birthday is June 12, 2010)
Too short a life for a true superhero ...
Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp in March 1945, three
months before her 16th
birthday.

Portrait of Anne Frank as a young girl
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Undoubtedly, you've seen the movie ... but did you read the book?
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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Amazon Product Description: A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity.
The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?).
Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith
Anne Frank at a glance
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank () (12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ? early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) was a Jewish girl who was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, and who lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a German until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Anne and her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the same year as the Nazis gained power in Germany. By the beginning of 1940 they were trapped in Amsterdam due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.
The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944. It has been translated from the original Dutch into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the most renowned and most discussed victims of the Holocaust.
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Gillians says:
Anne Frank is a young preteen who changed history forever. She is MY hero. I look up to her because of how brave she was!!!!!!
Posted December 06, 2009
jordan says:
yes shes wonderful ......................<3
Posted November 16, 2009
No. Please pass the peas.
Brooke says:
i think she was very great but sometimes you have to let things go i mean ,yes she was very young but i personaly think that she wasnt great because she did have some sickness , but alll in all yes anne frank was okay to live though all that happen during that time
and so i do not think that anne frank is MY super hero !
Posted July 30, 2009
Anne Frank - The Whole Story
Anne Frank - The Whole Story
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Amazon Product Description: Anne Frank: The Whole Story delivers exactly what it promises: the incredibly moving complete story of Anne Frank, going beyond what the Jewish teenage girl wrote in her widely read diary. Anne, along with her family and friends of her family, hid in a secret annex behind her father's office in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She dutifully kept a diary, which became a worldwide bestseller when her father published it in the 1950s.
The story has been adapted for television and movies before, but this version, which played on ABC television, moves beyond what Anne wrote, meeting up with the Frank family before Anne receives her diary, and following her past the diary's last entries into Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Hannah Taylor Gordon is a superb Anne, bringing to life the multifaceted girl, in turns intelligent, dreamy, creative, spoiled, and bratty, a girl like any other except that Anne is a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland. The only one who outshines Gordon is Ben Kingsley as Anne's father, Otto Frank. His quiet performance is extraordinarily powerful; as he watches his family slip away, it is impossible not to feel his grief.
This brave film is difficult in parts to watch--the concentration camp scenes are brutal--but this is a remarkable adaptation of Anne's life, and it is a film to be shared and discussed and remembered. --Jenny Brown

The Anne Frank Memorial :: Bergen-Belsen
BBC One presents The Diary of Anne Frank
Monday 5 to Friday 9 January 2009, 7.00-7.30pm

BBC One presents a new adaptation of The Diary Of Anne Frank which will be shown in five episodes on consecutive nights in early January.
Anne Frank started to write her diary on her 13th birthday in June 1942, just two weeks before she and her family were forced to go into hiding in Nazi occupied Holland.
Written from the cramped conditions of an annexe in her father's spice warehouse, Anne's poignant, feisty and often very funny account of her life over a two-year period has become the most widely read piece of non-fiction - apart from the Bible.
The drama stars Ellie Kendrick, Iain Glen, Tamsin Greig, Felicity Jones, Kate Ashfield, Ron Cook, Lesley Sharp, Geoff Breton and Nicolas Farrell.
The Diary Of Anne Frank has been adapted by Deborah Moggach and is a Darlow Smithson production for BBC One.
The series has been directed by Jon Jones and produced by Elinor Day.
The Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Polly Hill.
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I have included ONE link and ONLY ONE link as I find this is the most authentic and genuine website for finding out more about this beautiful and true superhero!
- Anne Frank Museum
- Oh my, this is a most beautiful website that touches my heart-strings. I must encourage to visit and spend some time there.
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
by Netherlands Institute For War Documentation
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
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Amazon Product Description: Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; Revised & updated edition (March 25, 2003).
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- ChapelHillFiddler ChapelHillFiddler Nov 28, 2009 @ 6:43 am
- Hi Julie, great lens. I've added it to the plexo on my "Best Jewish Lenses" group. Thanks for making it.
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- Light-in-me Light-in-me Nov 23, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
- Hello,
I read the diary of Anne Frank when I was a young girl and I was so moved by it, I cried at the end so hard. I never forgot her, it really brought home the harsh reality of it for me.
Fantastic lens thanks for sharing!
Robin
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