The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

by Willy Lindwer

Overview

The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307780782
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/16/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Willy Lindwer, Dutch filmmaker and son of Jewish parents who survived the German occupation in hiding, was born in 1946 in Amsterdam. He has produced numerous documentaries for Dutch television and as part of international coproductions. His documentary about the last seven months of Anne Frank's life was first shown on public television to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth and won an international Emmy Award.

Editorial Reviews

With approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition, revealing a more rebellious and complex narrator, the new edition of Frank's classic diary spent five weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Anne Frank's now famous diary stops days before her hiding place was found and she began a forced journey to Auschwitz. Through her record of ordinary life in a terrible era, she became a voice for all who died. Lindwer, a documentary filmmaker, found six women who knew Anne in the camps; they described on camera their own memories of her death and their own survival. Here Lindwer presents the complete texts of interviews, which could not be fully incorporated into Lindwer's 1988 documentary. Not only is the courage of the survivors demonstrated but the nature of death and dying is clarified for the far greater number, like Anne, who disappeared in the Holocaust. A moving account, recommended for most collections.-- Rena Fowler, Northern Michi gan Univ. Lib., Marquette

Library Journal

YA-- Lindwer presents the transcripts of six in-depth interviews conducted in preparation for his film documentary, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank . Although ``Lies Goosens,'' real name Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar, will be the most familiar to readers of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl , each of these women's first-person accounts is compelling. They relate their backgrounds, their capture, details of the concentration camp experience, and descriptions of the time immediately following liberation. Each includes her relationship to Anne Frank and gives impressions of the girl's final days. This collage of intimate recollections paints a clear picture of the human experience known as the Holocaust. Few will be able to digest this book in one sitting; fewer still will be able to turn away from it once they've begun. --Barbara Hawkins, West Potomac High School, Fairfax, VA

School Library Journal

"(This book) completes Anne Frank's diary and the knowledge that we have about her.  I was deeply impressed"—Simon Wiesenthal

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