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Janice · 06-13-2004, 02:33 AM

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Exhibition Marks Anne Frank's Birthday

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (June 12) - The grainy black-and-white photos offer an intimate look at a prewar middle-class European family. The girls celebrate birthdays, play in sandboxes and on the beach, hug a teddy bear. The images reveal no hint of impending catastrophe. Had she survived a Nazi concentration camp, the smaller girl in the photos, Anne Frank, would have turned 75 on Saturday.

The exhibition of nearly 70 photographs, many of them never previously published or publicly displayed, is the focus of 75th birthday events at the Anne Frank House, the former canal house where Anne's family hid for 25 months.

It is where the teenager wrote the diary that became the human voice of the Holocaust before the family was betrayed and captured in August 1944.

Her birthday coincided with the widely celebrated 60th anniversary of D-Day, providing a sad reminder of those for whom liberation came too late. The 15-year-old Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945, just weeks before British troops arrived at the gate.

Theaters, Holocaust museums, churches and Jewish clubs around the world are commemorating the day with readings from "The Diary of Anne Frank" or performances of the play based on the journal. The Cleveland Opera is performing music inspired by the story.

More than 100,000 Dutch Jews - 70 percent of the community - were deported to concentration camps after Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. Most died in gas chambers, and were among the 6 million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide.

"It's amazing when you think how much interest the diary created. That little girl - and she was only a little girl when she went into hiding - would be so shocked if she would have known," said Carol Ann Lee, a biographer of Anne and her father Otto Frank.

Most of the photographs, first displayed in New York in May, were made by Otto Frank, a talented amateur photographer who snapped hundreds of candid shots of his daughters Anne and Margot - in days before photography was a widely practiced hobby.

"What they show is that the Franks were a family like everyone else," said Eva Schloss, Anne's childhood friend. "They had a happy life. They did all the things children do," she said in an interview.

Schloss recalls often playing with Anne after school. "I was more wild, a tomboy. She was more sophisticated. She was interested in clothes, in her appearance. She was careful with her hair. She was interested in boys," she said.

Schloss and her mother also spent two years in hiding, moving from house to house, careful to keep their presence secret from the neighbors of people who helped them. They were betrayed by a Nazi sympathizer, a nurse who had infiltrated the Dutch resistance movement. They were sent to Auschwitz, where they survived nine tortuous months.

After the war, Schloss became Anne's posthumous stepsister when her widowed mother, Elfriede Geiringer, married Otto Frank, whose wife Edith died in Auschwitz. Otto gave the young girl his Leica camera and sent her to London to learn photography.

Anne began writing her diary on June 12, 1942, in a small album meant for autographs, one of her 13th birthday presents. Less than a month later, the family moved into a secret annex of Otto Frank's warehouse to escape the Nazi roundup.

Her last entry was Aug. 1, 1944, three days before she was arrested.

Miep Gies, one of four people who provided food and help to the Franks while they were in hiding, collected the notebooks and scattered papers that comprised the diary. Years later, she turned them over to Otto Frank, the only survivor among the eight people who hid in the annex.

Frank published the Dutch version of the diary in 1947. It has since been translated into 55 languages, sold more than 25 million copies and is required reading by many U.S. schools.

"She was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent," said her biographer, Lee. "I just can't believe she would have led an ordinary life."

Anne Frank leans over the balcony of her apartment in Amsterdam in May 1941.

*Pleasant Tomorrow* · 06-13-2004, 01:35 PM

I was always interested in the whole Nazi thing and what they did to people, it makes me so mad. Anne was a great person, and I wonder what she'd be doing today if she had lived. I can't believe if she had survived only a few more weeks she'd probably be okay right now.

Fleet · 06-13-2004, 02:34 PM

I really should buy her book someday.
I do have a book written by one of those who helped hide her and her family.

It sure is some story. I can see why so many people are interested in it.

Cashodeen · 06-13-2004, 04:11 PM

It's hard to believe she would have celebrated her 75th birthday yesterday. I've always had a huge interest in learning about her life. I was going to post pictures I have of her in a book, but as luck would have it I can't find the book (still packed away).

I've read a few books on Anne Frank and those she lived with in the annex, but I've never read her diary all the way through. I didn't really want to read the DoubleDay version, and I've never been able to get ahold of her diary uncut. I should probably settle for the DD version in the meantime though.

PZelda · 06-13-2004, 05:11 PM

I was very fascinated by Anne Frank...As a matter of fact, I have an Anne Frank T-shirt I've had for almost 10 years now. You just reminded me of that.

About 10 years ago, they started doing a touring Anne Frank exhibit. They traveled all over the US with the exhibit. I'm not sure how far they traveled...but anyway, the exhibit stopped here in my town in March 1995 and my class got to go see the exhibit.

I LOVED it! They even brought along her real diary, which was on display in an enclosed glass box...Very, very cool to see. I have a few books on her and the Annex. I should dig those out.

Cashodeen · 06-13-2004, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by Miss Vicki
I was very fascinated by Anne Frank...As a matter of fact, I have an Anne Frank T-shirt I've had for almost 10 years now. You just reminded me of that.

About 10 years ago, they started doing a touring Anne Frank exhibit. They traveled all over the US with the exhibit. I'm not sure how far they traveled...but anyway, the exhibit stopped here in my town in March 1995 and my class got to go see the exhibit. I LOVED it! They even brought along her real diary, which was on display in an enclosed glass box...Very, very cool to see. I have a few books on her and the Annex. I should dig those out.

How cool. I thought her diary stayed in one place... Amsterdam I thought. I wish I could have seen one of the exhibits. I've always wanted to go to Amsterdam and visit the hiding place. I know they had tours there.

PZelda · 06-13-2004, 06:53 PM

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Originally posted by Cashodeen
How cool. I thought her diary stayed in one place... Amsterdam I thought. I wish I could have seen one of the exhibits. I've always wanted to go to Amsterdam and visit the hiding place. I know they had tours there.

Like I said...that was almost 10 years ago when I saw her touring exhibit. I'm sure it's back in Amsterdam by now. I woulda gone to Amsterdam when I went to England in March, but it didn't happen.

Cashodeen · 06-13-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Like I said...that was almost 10 years ago when I saw her touring exhibit. I'm sure it's back in Amsterdam by now. I woulda gone to Amsterdam when I went to England in March, but it didn't happen.

Oh yeah, I gotcha. I just thought it NEVER left where it usually is displayed. Very cool. I wish I could have seen the exhibit. I did a report on Anne Frank for school about 10 years ago. It would have been really awesome to see an exhibit around that time because I've been really interested in her since then.

Janice · 06-14-2004, 03:24 AM

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Originally posted by *A TV People*
II can't believe if she had survived only a few more weeks she'd probably be okay right now.

I know. Just a few lousy weeks. The poor girl. Her diary is a wonderful book.

Cashodeen · 06-14-2004, 04:53 AM

It's terrible enough that 7 out of 8 living in the annex died in those horrendous camps. It's even more sickening to think that most of the 7 died just a short period of time before their camps were liberated:

Anne Frank died on *March 12, 1945, and Bergen-Belsen was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Margot Frank, Anne's sister died in Bergen-Belsen on March *9, 1945.

Edith Frank, Anne's mother died in Auschwitz on Jan. 6, 1945, and that camp was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945.

Peter van Pel's death isn't really clear. Sources say he died just 3 days before Mauthausen's liberation, which was on May 5 and 6, but sources also say he died on the 5th so he may have missed liberation by only hours.

Mrs. van Pel's place and date of death aren't known, but she was believed to have died in Theresienstadt in the spingtime, so perhaps just weeks from liberation on May 8, 1945.

Mr. van Pels died sometime in Sept. 1944 at Auschwitz, and Dr. Pfeffer died in Dec. 1944 in Neuengamme, about 4 months before liberation there.

Otto Frank, Anne's father was the only survivor and was liberated from Auschwitz.

*Those dates may not be accurate. Anne and Margot did die in March 1945 probably within days of eachother, but it's not completely known if it was the 9th and 12th.

Janice · 06-14-2004, 02:10 PM

There are many sad chapters in our world's history, but the Holocaust has struck my heart for years. So senseless, so much heartache and devastation caused by one madman.

EmoJoe · 06-15-2004, 08:38 PM

I read Anne Frank's book and I loved it. I am so mad they killed her. The Nazis should have been put into gas ovens, I am glad that most of the Nazis were killed.

06-13-2004, 02:33 AM	#1
Janice Retired Admin - Hollywood Swingin' Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 03, 2001 Location: Beantown Posts: 36,388	Exhibition Marks Anne Frank's 75th Birthday http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...11212509990001 Exhibition Marks Anne Frank's Birthday AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (June 12) - The grainy black-and-white photos offer an intimate look at a prewar middle-class European family. The girls celebrate birthdays, play in sandboxes and on the beach, hug a teddy bear. The images reveal no hint of impending catastrophe. Had she survived a Nazi concentration camp, the smaller girl in the photos, Anne Frank, would have turned 75 on Saturday. The exhibition of nearly 70 photographs, many of them never previously published or publicly displayed, is the focus of 75th birthday events at the Anne Frank House, the former canal house where Anne's family hid for 25 months. It is where the teenager wrote the diary that became the human voice of the Holocaust before the family was betrayed and captured in August 1944. Her birthday coincided with the widely celebrated 60th anniversary of D-Day, providing a sad reminder of those for whom liberation came too late. The 15-year-old Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945, just weeks before British troops arrived at the gate. Theaters, Holocaust museums, churches and Jewish clubs around the world are commemorating the day with readings from "The Diary of Anne Frank" or performances of the play based on the journal. The Cleveland Opera is performing music inspired by the story. More than 100,000 Dutch Jews - 70 percent of the community - were deported to concentration camps after Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. Most died in gas chambers, and were among the 6 million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide. "It's amazing when you think how much interest the diary created. That little girl - and she was only a little girl when she went into hiding - would be so shocked if she would have known," said Carol Ann Lee, a biographer of Anne and her father Otto Frank. Most of the photographs, first displayed in New York in May, were made by Otto Frank, a talented amateur photographer who snapped hundreds of candid shots of his daughters Anne and Margot - in days before photography was a widely practiced hobby. "What they show is that the Franks were a family like everyone else," said Eva Schloss, Anne's childhood friend. "They had a happy life. They did all the things children do," she said in an interview. Schloss recalls often playing with Anne after school. "I was more wild, a tomboy. She was more sophisticated. She was interested in clothes, in her appearance. She was careful with her hair. She was interested in boys," she said. Schloss and her mother also spent two years in hiding, moving from house to house, careful to keep their presence secret from the neighbors of people who helped them. They were betrayed by a Nazi sympathizer, a nurse who had infiltrated the Dutch resistance movement. They were sent to Auschwitz, where they survived nine tortuous months. After the war, Schloss became Anne's posthumous stepsister when her widowed mother, Elfriede Geiringer, married Otto Frank, whose wife Edith died in Auschwitz. Otto gave the young girl his Leica camera and sent her to London to learn photography. Anne began writing her diary on June 12, 1942, in a small album meant for autographs, one of her 13th birthday presents. Less than a month later, the family moved into a secret annex of Otto Frank's warehouse to escape the Nazi roundup. Her last entry was Aug. 1, 1944, three days before she was arrested. Miep Gies, one of four people who provided food and help to the Franks while they were in hiding, collected the notebooks and scattered papers that comprised the diary. Years later, she turned them over to Otto Frank, the only survivor among the eight people who hid in the annex. Frank published the Dutch version of the diary in 1947. It has since been translated into 55 languages, sold more than 25 million copies and is required reading by many U.S. schools. "She was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent," said her biographer, Lee. "I just can't believe she would have led an ordinary life." Anne Frank leans over the balcony of her apartment in Amsterdam in May 1941. Attached Images

06-13-2004, 01:35 PM	#2
Pleasant Tomorrow Member Forum Addict Join Date: Feb 19, 2003 Location: New York Posts: 69,525	I was always interested in the whole Nazi thing and what they did to people, it makes me so mad. Anne was a great person, and I wonder what she'd be doing today if she had lived. I can't believe if she had survived only a few more weeks she'd probably be okay right now.
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06-13-2004, 05:11 PM	#5
PZelda Two Valeries! <3 Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 15, 2002 Location: I'm STILL missing NYC. :( Posts: 78,223	I was very fascinated by Anne Frank...As a matter of fact, I have an Anne Frank T-shirt I've had for almost 10 years now. You just reminded me of that. About 10 years ago, they started doing a touring Anne Frank exhibit. They traveled all over the US with the exhibit. I'm not sure how far they traveled...but anyway, the exhibit stopped here in my town in March 1995 and my class got to go see the exhibit. I LOVED it! They even brought along her real diary, which was on display in an enclosed glass box...Very, very cool to see. I have a few books on her and the Annex. I should dig those out.
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06-15-2004, 08:38 PM	#12
EmoJoe Cool cool cool Forum Addict Join Date: Apr 23, 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 71,478	I read Anne Frank's book and I loved it. I am so mad they killed her. The Nazis should have been put into gas ovens, I am glad that most of the Nazis were killed.
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06-13-2004, 02:34 PM	#3
Fleet Mansions, limousines & H-ween Forum Star Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, California Posts: 15,625	I really should buy her book someday. I do have a book written by one of those who helped hide her and her family. It sure is some story. I can see why so many people are interested in it.

06-13-2004, 04:11 PM	#4
Cashodeen Hi. Forum Star Join Date: Aug 30, 2001 Posts: 11,363	It's hard to believe she would have celebrated her 75th birthday yesterday. I've always had a huge interest in learning about her life. I was going to post pictures I have of her in a book, but as luck would have it I can't find the book (still packed away). I've read a few books on Anne Frank and those she lived with in the annex, but I've never read her diary all the way through. I didn't really want to read the DoubleDay version, and I've never been able to get ahold of her diary uncut. I should probably settle for the DD version in the meantime though.

06-14-2004, 04:53 AM	#10
Cashodeen Hi. Forum Star Join Date: Aug 30, 2001 Posts: 11,363	It's terrible enough that 7 out of 8 living in the annex died in those horrendous camps. It's even more sickening to think that most of the 7 died just a short period of time before their camps were liberated: Anne Frank died on March 12, 1945, and Bergen-Belsen was liberated on April 15, 1945. Margot Frank, Anne's sister died in Bergen-Belsen on March 9, 1945. Edith Frank, Anne's mother died in Auschwitz on Jan. 6, 1945, and that camp was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945. Peter van Pel's death isn't really clear. Sources say he died just 3 days before Mauthausen's liberation, which was on May 5 and 6, but sources also say he died on the 5th so he may have missed liberation by only hours. Mrs. van Pel's place and date of death aren't known, but she was believed to have died in Theresienstadt in the spingtime, so perhaps just weeks from liberation on May 8, 1945. Mr. van Pels died sometime in Sept. 1944 at Auschwitz, and Dr. Pfeffer died in Dec. 1944 in Neuengamme, about 4 months before liberation there. Otto Frank, Anne's father was the only survivor and was liberated from Auschwitz. *Those dates may not be accurate. Anne and Margot did die in March 1945 probably within days of eachother, but it's not completely known if it was the 9th and 12th.

06-14-2004, 02:10 PM	#11
Janice Retired Admin - Hollywood Swingin' Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 03, 2001 Location: Beantown Posts: 36,388	There are many sad chapters in our world's history, but the Holocaust has struck my heart for years. So senseless, so much heartache and devastation caused by one madman.