Anne Frank : A True Superhero
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Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation is a TRUE superhero!
To me Anne Frank is without a doubt a true superhero of immeasurable proportions.
In June 2008, we were presented with a challenge from Anne Reidy, as Squidoo Activists, to create at least 5 lenses about the superheroes in our life. I thought and thought ... superheroes?
There have been so many superheroes in my life and undoubtedly in the life of others. How can you just zero in on any one individual, I ask? Well, thinking of Anne Frank, she surely represents a true superhero for me. I'm not so sure I could have been as brave and strong as Anne Frank! How about you?
>>> Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation is a TRUE superhero!
Anne Frank : A True Superhero was originally created on June 21, 2008.
Contents at a Glance
Countdown to Anne Frank's 83rd Birthday
Too short a life for a true superhero Anne Frank

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Writers Who Changed the World - Anne Frank Art Print
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Anne Frank died in the
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
Amazon Price: $2.00 (as of 02/16/2012)![]()
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
Is Anne Frank your superhero too?

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The Attic of Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Holland Framed Art Print
Gascoigne, Christina
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYou bet. Great pick.
CountrySunshine says:
She seemed incredibly intelligent for her age. I suppose back in war days kids had to grow up quicker than they do now. Yes, I think she is definitely a superhero!
Posted February 07, 2012
No. Please pass the peas.
ACE says:
i have to do the paper on her and i still don't know if i call her a hero!
Posted January 06, 2010
Anne Frank - The Whole Story
Anne Frank - The Whole Story
Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 02/16/2012)![]()
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.
Inspirational books about Anne Frank
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Statue of Anne Frank, Amsterdam Photographic Print
Rennie, Christopher
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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
Amazon Price: $38.00 (as of 02/16/2012)![]()
Amazon Product Description: Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; Revised & updated edition (March 25, 2003).
Read the first page!
P.S. I made this lens for the Squidoo Superheroes Project
I was invited to participate in the Squidoo Superhero Project, making 5 lenses in 2 weeks about the people who have inspired me, mentored me, changed the way I look at the world. The people I just want to say a big loud public THANKS to. Shhh... Follow the Squidoo Superheroes Blog!
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Richard3331
Feb 12, 2012 @ 9:31 am | delete
- I dont think any of us know what we can do unti we have to - the human spirit is such an amazing thing. Thank you for this inspiring lens
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Pukeko
Feb 10, 2012 @ 9:27 pm | delete
- We will be visiting Anne Franks home this year. I left a blessing at this powerful lens.
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fugeecat
Feb 8, 2012 @ 8:52 pm | delete
- I remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank when I was in the seventh grade. I think it was the best book I could have read to make me understand what happened during WW II.
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CountrySunshine
Feb 7, 2012 @ 6:22 pm | delete
- I visited the concentration camps in Dachau when I was a teenager, and have never forgotten the atrocities that people do to one another. I read Anne Frank when I was young, and this article has made me want to revisit the story. Thanks for the reminder!
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Zut_Moon
Jan 31, 2012 @ 4:28 pm | delete
- The Zut was here and gives this lens a Thumbs Up ... and "pinned" it too.
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