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Adorno, Theodor, 218
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 241
Alfred A. Knopf publishers, 81
Allied invasion, 124–25, 127, 152
D-Day, 127, 237
Alter, Robert, 8, 170–71
American Jewish Committee (AJC), 191
American Mercury, 243
Amersfoort transit camp, 72
Amsterdam anti-Jewish laws, 34–39, 45
bounty paid for turning in Jews, 43, 53
general strike to protest Nazi repression, 35
Gestapo headquarters, 53, 72
Huis van Bewaring prison, 53, 72
incident at Koco ice cream parlor, 35
Jewish Lyceum, 36–37
Jews dragged from their house and taken to the Hollandsche Schouwburg, 50–51
Joodse Invalide (Jewish Hospital), 50, 102
mass deportations of Jews, 37, 116–17
Montessori school, 28, 36
Nazi collaborators in, 43, 70
Nazi invasion and occupation, 34
Otto Frank emigrates to, 26, 27
prison on Amstelveenseweg, 72
River Quarter, Jews in, 27
secret annex at 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40, 46, 63, 206 (see also annex [secret annex]) street roundups (razzia) of Jews, 35, 116–17
suicide of Jews, 34
“voluntary emigration” of Jews, 38
yellow stars worn by Jews, 38–39, 45
Anderson, Maxwell, 188–89
Anne B. Real (film), 21
Anne Frank: A Hidden Life (Pressler, ed.) 13–14 149–50
Anne Frank: A Portrait in Courage (Schnabel), 30, 32, 56
Anne Frank Center, New York Cit 254
Anne Frank-Fonds, 163
Anne Frank Foundation, 161, 162–68, 174, 275
“Anne Frank—A History for Today,” 163–64
Anne Frank Foundation (cont.) attacks on the diary’s authenticity and, 248
Audrey Hepburn and, 229
damages paid to by Holocaust denier, 244
exhibition in Boise and park, 239
Mariela Chyrikins and, 163–65
Norbert Hinterleitner and, 165–66, 167, 173
programs about tolerance, for the Ukraine, 165–66
purpose of, 163, 173, 174
Anne Frank Museum, 159–62, 163 creation of, 160–61
letter from Meyer Levin to the Book Review at, 184
marks on doorway, of Anne’s and Margot’s growth, 65, 67
number of visitors, 161
pictures on the walls of Anne’s room, 162, 206, 225
Primo Levi quotation on wall, 160, 171
scale model of the secret annex, 161–62
Shelley Winters’ Oscar donated to, 235
unfurnished rooms of, 160
video of Hanneli (“Lies”), talking about Anne’s final days, 57, 160
visit to, 159–60
Web site survey on teaching of The Diary, 253–54
Anne Frank Remembered (film), 20, 69, 70, 73
Anne Frank Remembered (Gies), 6–7, 69–70, 123
Anne Frank’s Diary, A Hoax (Felderer), 244–47
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical
Documents (Kopf), 263
Anne no Nikki (anime cartoon), 21
annex (secret annex). See also Anne Frank Museum
Anne’s papers salvaged from, 52
arrest of occupants and arresting officer, 63–67
arrival of Frank family in, 49–50
chestnut tree outside, 22, 162
conditions in, 100
conversion from laboratory to hiding place, 46–47
described in The Diary, 98
deteriorating conditions and lack of food, 24
fate of occupants, 55–56, 59–60, 73, 112, 127
floor plan, 149
food for, 47
garret, 162
as Het Acherhuis, 12
length of time before occupants discovered, 51
location of, in building, 12
origin of idea of using as hiding place, 46
photos of occupants, 160
pilgrimages to, by fans, 161
playwrights visit, 206
scale model, 161–62
stripping of furniture after occupants arrest, 72
tedium of life in 100–101
at 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40, 46, 63
who betrayed the occupants, 51–52
Argentina, 163–64
bombing of AMIA Jewish Community Center, 164
dictatorship and Dirty War, 164–65
Atkinson, Brooks, 216–17
Auschwitz Anne arrives in, hair shaved, arm tattooed, 55
Anne in scabies block, 56
deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to, 42
descriptions of, 55
film clip of liberation on YouTube, 237–38
last train to, carrying the Franks, 55
liberation by Russian army, 56, 60
liberation of Otto Frank, 73
male occupants of the annex at, 59
secret annex residents sent to, 45
survivors of, 60
transports from Westerbok, 53, 55
Women’s Block 29, 55
Ballif, Algene, 217–18
Bard College, 271–77
Baschwitz, Kurt, 77
Baumel, Judith Tydor, 263
Bep. See Voskuijl, Elizabeth “Bep”
Bell Academy, Queens, New York, 268–69
Bergen-Belsen camp
Anne’s death at, 4, 50, 56, 160, 170
conditions at, 56–58
Hanneli Goslar in, 50, 57
liberation by British, 58
mass grave at, 178, 180, 218
nurse at, 54
Berghaus textile company, 160–61
Berlin Holocaust Memorial, 160
Berryman, John, 3, 7, 93, 98, 109, 121–22, 215–16
Bettelheim, Bruno, 166–67, 168
Beymer, Richard, 233
Blair, Jon, 20, 69
Bloom, Harold, 8
Bloomgarden, Kermit, 191, 192, 193, 200, 202, 203, 207
Boatman, Robert, 239–40
Bolkestein, Gerrit, 11, 12, 79, 139
broadcast of, as personal directive to Anne Frank, 134
Brandes-Brilleslijper, Janny, 54, 55, 58, 73
Branouw, David, 17
Brantley, Ben, 221
Buchenwald camp, 35
Buddeberg, Heinrich, 241
Buruma, Ian, 83, 167, 168
Calmann Lévy publishers, 82
Camino Real (Williams), 200
Canby, Vincent, 221
Cauvern, Albert, 77, 242
Chaplin, Charlie, 247
Chenoweth, Helen, 239–40
“Child’s Voice, A” (Romein), 78
Chile, 165
Anne Frank Foundation program at Villa Grimaldi, 165
Chomsky, Noam, 244
Chyrikins, Mariela, 163–65, 167, 173, 174, 269
Commentary magazine, 3, 82–83
review of Goodrich-Hackett adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 217–18
review of Kesselman adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 221
Commonweal magazine, 88
Crawford, Cheryl, 190–91, 192, 199, 200
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (German edition), 80, 218
Days and Nights: page 121, lines 11 and 12 (Weitz), 21
Destruction of the Dutch Jews, The (Presser), 37–38
“Development of Anne Frank, The” (Berryman), 3, 7, 98
Diary of Anne Frank, The: Cliffs Notes (Shefer-Vanson), 253
Diary of Anne Frank, The or Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (“c” version, 1947), 16–17, 18, 89–128
accounts of Anne’s darkest moments, 76
adolescence depicted in, 5, 92–93, 104, 115
afterword, 56
Allied invasion and, 124–25, 127
bathing arrangements, 101
beginning the diary (restored passage by Otto), 96, 133
books read in the annex, 105
Diary of Anne Frank, The (cont.) characterization in, 98, 103–8, 110–21, 145–46
comical interludes, 122–24
compassion in, 95
contrition rising from, 171–72
cover, Anne’s photograph, 84–85
criticism of edited content, 174
critics’ evaluation of, 8, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 87–88
debate evoked by, 174
denial of authenticity, 241–49
dramatic incidents, 121–25
Dutch edition, 78–80
ending of, 96
entry of August 1, 1944 (final entry), 10, 15
entry of June 12, 1942, 10, 96
entry of May 3, 1944, 168–69
entry of November 7, 1942 (family fight), 121
eye for detail, 98–101
family life in, 5, 121–22
famous passage about human goodness, 169–70, 198, 220
fear conveyed by, 95
first entry/entries, content of, 96–97
form of, 93–94
French edition, 82
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
German edition, 80
Goodrich-Hackett as writers, 193, 196, 197, 200–207
as great memoir and spiritual confession, 9
historical context, importance of, 172
Holland during World War II and, 126
as Holocaust document, 5, 79, 126, 127, 170
in Japan, 20
as literary classic/masterpiece, 19–20, 69, 77, 89, 183
literary merit of, 5, 7–8, 9, 83 longevity of, 9
“manners” in the annex, 100
mealtimes, 101–2
as memoir, 13–14
message of, 166–75
moments of detachment and lyrical passage in, 94–95
myth that diary was not revised and rewritten, 88
narrative voice, 5, 89–90, 91–92, 94, 97
novelistic qualities, 5
occupants respond to Anne’s query on their diet, 102–3
Otto Frank’s edit and deletions, 6, 13, 15–16, 17, 74–77, 89, 96, 105–6, 108, 130, 131, 132, 133, 137, 139, 154
parents’ marriage depicted in, 99
passage in which Anne asks why God has singled out the Jews, 76–77
passages cut from the Dutch edition, 78
plans to publish Het Achterhuis, 106
portrayal of Margot, 119–21
portrayal of Otto Frank, 103–5
portrayal of Peter, 112–16, 123
portrayal of Pfeffer, 75, 93, 102, 116–19
portrayal of the Van Pelses, 110–12
preface by Eleanor Roosevelt, 85–87, 185
prose style, 91, 130
published in the Netherlands as Het Achterhuis, 78–79
publishing history, 77–88, 180–81, 218
read by prisoners, 19
relationship of Anne and her mother in, 4, 92, 105–8, 109–10
repressive measures against Jews in, 97
revisions of original writings made on loose sheets (“b” ver
sion) and, 14–15, 18–19, 128, 134 romance with Peter, 4, 16, 104, 113, 114–16, 119, 125, 139, 197
sex and sexuality in, 125–26, 265
teaching the diary and use in the classroom, 9, 19, 21, 154, 171, 253–77
technical proficiency, 5
tedium of life in the annex, 100–101
transformation of child to adult in, 93, 109–10, 139, 154–55, 215
U. S. edition, 80–88
vision of Lies (Hanneli) and Anne’s grandmother, 28, 109, 216
who the diary is addressed to, 90–91
wish to become a writer in, 6, 7, 12–13, 15, 68, 106
“witless barbarity” of fascism indicted by, 78
women, treated as inferior, 108–9
as work of art, 8
Diary of Anne Frank, The: The Revised Critical Edition (1986, 2001) “a” version (original draft of diary), 16–17, 129–56
authenticity of the diary and, 247–48
“b” version (revisions of original writings made on loose sheets), 10, 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18–19, 79, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135–53, 154–55
beginning the diary, 132–33
bells of Westertoren, 51
blocks of added information to clarify daily rituals and quarters, 149
blowup over reading of a controversial work, comparison of versions, 146–47
“c” version (book produced by Otto Frank by combining Anne’s drafts), 16 (see also Diary of Anne Frank, The) call-up order for Margot, clarification of, 150–51
comparisons of first entries and second draft, analysis of, 135–53
concerns about betrayal depicted in, 52
description of deterioration of Dutch civil society, 140–41
development of Anne’s spirituality, 149–50
diary entry of January 22, 1944, 154–55
diary entry of June 20, 1942, 32, 39, 42, 132, 134
diary entry of June 21, 1942, 132–33
diary entry of March 12, 1944, 136
diary entry of November 27, 1943, 150
diary entry of September 21, 1942, 141–42
difficulty of following three narratives of, 154
“Do You Remember” written about her Lyceum days, 37 final revision made in March 1944, 137
forensic handwriting analysis of Anne’s work, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48
Frank family arrives at secret annex, 50
Franks’ walk to the hiding place, clarification of, 151–53
illnesses of Franks’ helpers and stoicism of, 70
list of birthday gifts (omitted from The Diary), 130–31
lists of teachers (omitted from The Diary), 131
Miep’s recovery and safe-keeping of Anne’s diary and writings, 70–71, 73
on Nazi repression, 32
outline for ending of Cady’s Life, 106–7
passage on women’s rights cut by Otto Frank, 108
on people’s urge to destroy and kill, 256
photographs of Anne’s printing and handwriting, 129
Diary of Anne Frank, The (cont.) on preparation of the secret annex, 47–48
restored passage critical of Miep and description of lack of food, 24–25
revelation of trick the Franks used to make others thing they escaped Holland, 148–49
revision of early conversation on “modesty,” 142–46
style and voice of, 17, 91, 130
“suppressed” five pages, about parents’ marriage absent from first edition, 76, 154
“terrible fright” passage revised, 147–48
trip to an ice-cream parlor (omitted from The Diary), 131
witnessing Jews being taken away, 51
Diary of Anne Frank, The: Definitive Edition (Pressler, ed., 1995), 10, 219
Anne’s discourse on female genitalia in, 153
content and comparison to diary, 13–14
foreword, 154
length of, 6
media attention to, 153
restorations of cut passages in, 6, 18
slower pace of, 154
Diary of Anne Frank, The (film), 9, 19, 75–76, 225–38
Arnold Newman’s score for, 233
arrest fictionalized in, 116
casting of, 228–31
depiction of Anne, 233–34
ending of, 168, 231, 236–37, 238
George Stevens as director, 229–30, 231–37
Oscar nominations and awards, 235
scene with Peter wanting to burn his yellow star, 235
screenplay by Goodrich-Hackett, 227
Shelley Winters as Petronella van Daan (Auguste van Pels), 145
trailer, 231
universality of, 232, 235
war scenes added to, 231–32
why Jews had to suffer changed, 235–36
William Mellor as cinematographer, 227
Diary of Anne Frank, The (play), 9, 19, 46, 75–76, 177–223
arrest fictionalized in, 116
beginning and ending of, 58–59
books about, 177–78
casting of, 207–8
critics’ evaluation of, 213, 216–18, 221–22
depiction of Anne, 196, 208, 212–16, 220, 221–23
directors, 192, 208–9, 219
distressing moments in, 212–13, 266–67
effect of play on audiences and continuing popularity, 218–19
ending of, 168, 198, 205, 220–21
exit of Anne smiling, 209–10
Hamburg performance (1976), 244
humor in, 193
as Jewish play, 189–90, 192, 211–14
Meyer Levin and, 177, 178–99
need to be commercial, 193–94, 199 205–6
new adaptation (1997), 219–23, 248
New York Times interview with Kanin, 209–10
opening in Germany, 218
opening night, 210
problem of creating dramatic tension in, 197, 205
producers, 190–91, 192, 194, 200, 205–6, 219–21
prologue of, 211–12
rehearsals, 208–9
research of the secret annex for, 206
staging by Tina Landau (2007), 221
success of and awards won, 210
teaching of/use in the classroom, 262
theatrical adaptation, writer for, 186, 188, 191–92, 193, 194, 199–207
universal as antonym of Jewish and, 184, 199
Diary of Anne Frank, The: A Song to Life (musical), 21, 163
Diary of Anne Frank—Is It Authentic? (Faurisson), 244
Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth at Last (Harwood), 243
Doubleday Publishers, 82–88, 178 cover photo chosen, 84–85
dramatic rights and, 181
editor of The Diary, 83–88
theatrical adaptation and commission, 186–87, 188, 190, 194
“Drama for Junior High School: The Diary of Anne Frank” (Mapes), 262
Dresden, Sam, 170
Dubbelman, Jan Erik, 164
Dutch government in exile: national archive for war documents called for, 11
Echoes of the Past (documentary), 208, 231, 235
Egyedi, Käthe “Kitty,” 91
Eichmann, Adolf, 40, 41, 43
Elder, Donald B., 85
Elias, Bernd (cousin), 163
Elias, Erich (uncle), 27
Eva’s Story (Geiringer-Schloss), 29
Exit Ghost (Roth), 22
Faurisson, Robert, 244
Felderer, Ditlieb, 244–47, 261, 265
Ferrer, Mel, 228
Flanner, Janet, 82, 180
Frank, Anne
arrest of, and arresting officer, 63–67, 116
arrives at secret annex, 50
beginning the diary (“a” version), 4, 9–10, 23–24
birth, as Annelies Marie, 24
Bolkestein’s broadcast as personal directive, 11, 12, 79, 134, 139–40
briefcase containing writings, fate of, 68–69
checked diary and exercise books, 10, 131
death of, 4, 50, 56, 160, 170
desire for book to be read, 10, 12, 13, 24, 79
development of spirituality, 149–50
diary as struggle against isolation, 134–35
diary read by other occupants of the annex, 11
emigration to Holland, 26–27
fate after discovery in annex, 53–58
films and docudramas about, 20–21
grandmother’s death, 39
home at 37 Merwedeplein, 27, 36 home movie of, 31–32, 44
as iconic figure, 9
identity of betrayer of, 51–52
includes family background in diary, 23–24
Jewish identity of, 189–90
at the Jewish Lyceum, 36–37
lists anti-Jewish laws that most affected her, 39
literary growth of, 131–32, 135–53, 154–55
literary talent of, 7–8, 9, 199
memorial plaque at house in Frankfort, 218
message of, and ways the diary has been received, 167–75
Miep’s wedding and, 44
Frank, Anne (cont.) in Montessori school, 28, 36
moral consciousness of, 168
as movie fan, 162, 206, 225–26
Nazi invasion and occupation of Amsterdam and, 34
new revelations, excitement about, 20
people inspired by, 162, 173
personality and self-image, 28–30, 213–14, 223, 230
Pfeffer put in same room and Anne’s dislike of him, 117, 118
photographs of, 84–85
power of, 175
pseudonyms for annex occupants and helpers, 15
reasons for writing, 11–12
revisions of original writings made on loose sheets (“b” version) and, 10, 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18–19, 79, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135–53, 154–55
Roth’s praise of, 136
school friends (Anne, Hanne, and Sanne), 29
self-concept as a writer, 6, 7, 12–13, 15, 68, 106
style, changes in, 17, 130
threat of burning of diary, 68
title of Het Acherhuis, 12, 13, 264
view of human nature, 168, 169–70, 198, 220, 256, 274
wish to live after her death, 276–77
Frank, Edith Hollander (mother), 44
Anne’s conflicts with, 4, 92, 105–8, 109–10
appearance, 76
arrest of, 64
arrives at secret annex, 50
bathing arrangements, 101
brothers in U.S. willing to sponsor family’s emigration, 41
character and personality, 29, 105, 107
childrearing ideas and parenting, 28, 34–35, 190
death at Auschwitz, 56
emigration to Holland, 27
fate after discovery in annex, 55, 56
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
marriage depicted in The Diary, 99
marriage to Otto Frank, 24, 26, 76
mealtimes, 101
passages about cut by Otto Frank, 6
portrayal of in diary, 92
prayer book, 160
response to deficient diet, 103
scene in Diary on “modesty,” 142–46
youth of, 24
Frank, Elfriede. See Geiringer-Schloss, Fritzi Frank, Herbert (uncle), 25, 26
Frank, Margot (sister), 4, 48, 65, 108, 136, 190
arrives at secret annex, 50
bathing arrangements, 101
birth, 24
death at Bergen-Belsen, 56
desire to read the diary, 11
emigration to Holland, 27
fate after discovery in annex, 55, 56
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
mealtimes, 101
portrayal in The Diary, 119–21, 215
response to deficient diet, 103
work summons arrives for, 49–50, 150–51
Frank, Michael (grandfather), 24, 25
Frank, Otto (father)
accusation of tax evasion, 87
in America, working at Macy’s, 25
American editor of Diary and, 83–88
Anne Frank Museum and, 160
appearance, 29, 76, 77, 208
application for exit visa, 41–42 arresting officer remembered
by/refusal to prosecute, 65, 66 arrest of, 63, 116
arrives at secret annex, 50
bathing arrangements in the annex and, 101
on betrayer of family, 52–53 birth, 24
change of status in the annex, 26
channels profits from Diary into human rights causes, 84
Charlotte Kaletta and, 117–18
childrearing ideas, 28–29, 34–35
compassion of and visiting the sick, 50, 102
descriptions of, 4
dramatic rights to The Diary and, 181
edit and deletions of the diary by, 6, 13, 15–16, 17, 74–76, 78, 89, 96, 105–6, 108, 130, 131, 132, 133, 137, 139, 154, 223
emigration to Holland, 34 family bank and, 26
family in Basel, 55
fate after discovery in annex, 53, 55, 60
film version of The Diary and, 227, 228–29, 231
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
as gifted businessman, 26
Judaism and, 189–90
Laureen Nussbaum and, 18
lawsuits against Stielau and Buddeberg, 241–42
lawsuit by Levin against, 207, 210–11, 241, 243
lawyer for, 191, 207
learns of his wife’s and daughters’ deaths, 73
letters seeking asylum in U.S. or Cuba, 20, 41
life in the annex, 99
likeability, 29
marriage depicted in The Diary, 99
marriage to Edith Hollander, 24, 26, 76, 106
marriage to Fritzi Geiringer-Schloss, 29, 46, 83, 200
mealtimes, 101
message of Anne Frank and, 173–74
Meyer Levin and, 180, 182, 185, 186–87, 200, 202, 204, 210–11
Miep Gies and, 43–44
nervous breakdown, 87
Opekta spice and pectin business, 6, 27, 39–40
parenting by, 190
Pectacon business, 27, 39–40
plans to go into hiding, 40
portrayal in The Diary, 103–5
post-war life and finances, 187–88
publishing of the diary, 77–84
reading of Anne’s diary, 73–74
relationship with Johannes Kleiman, 46
response to deficient diet, 103
response to letters from readers, 172
ruse to make neighbors think the Franks had escaped from Holland, 148–49
signs family up for “voluntary emigration,” 38
survival of and return to Amsterdam, 73
Swiss residence of, 203
thank-you letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, 86–87
theatrical adaptation of The Diary and, 180–81, 186–91, 199–200, 203–4, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 222
tolerance and ethics of, 189
visa granted to Cuba, 41
in World War I, 25–26, 65
youth of, 24, 25–26
Frank, Robert (uncle), 25
Freedom Writers (film), 21
Freedom Writers Diary, The, 21
Freud, Sigmund, 247
Geiringer-Schloss, Eva, 29
Geiringer-Schloss, Fritzi (later Elfriede Frank), 29, 83, 200, 206, 227, 228
Geiss, Edgar, 244
Germany (Nazi). See also Holocaust (Nazi genocide) anti-Jewish laws, 32, 34–39
anti-Jewish violence, 27
boycott of German-Jewish businessmen, 27
dehumanization of the Jews, 173
denial of the Holocaust and, 240
Germany (Nazi) (Cont.) emigration of German and Austrian Jews, 40
evil done by, 172
invasion of Holland, 33–34
Otto Frank leaves, 33
reality of Anne’s message and, 168
Wannsee Conference and “final solution,” 40–41
Ghost Writer, The (Roth), 4, 8, 11, 13, 21–22
Gies, Jan, 43–44, 48, 59, 242
in the Resistance, 45
Gies, Miep, 52, 242
arresting officer remembered by, 65
attempt to bribe Silberbauer into releasing the Franks, 71–72
on Auguste van Pels, 111
background and relationship to the Franks, 43–45
on Franks’ apartment, 34–35
identity card, 160
interruption of Anne at work depicted by, 6–7
introduced to butcher to provide annex with meat, 40
observation of Edith Frank, 107
Otto Frank finds a forgotten bean, 123
passage about cut by Otto Frank, 24–25
Pfeffer and, 117
preparation of the secret annex and, 48
recalls Otto Frank’s reading of Anne’s diary, 73–74
recovery and safe-keeping of Anne’s diary and writings, 70–71, 72, 223
in the Resistance, 45
survival of, 60
wedding and urgency of marriage, 44
willingness to help the Franks and others, 45, 59, 69–70
on yellow stars worn by Jews, 38–39
Gilford, Jack, 208
Ginsburg, Eugenia, 174–75
Goldstein-van Cleef, Ronnie, 55
Goldwyn, Samuel, 227
Goodrich, Frances, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227
Goslar, Ruth, 28
Graver, Lawrence, 177
Guatemala, 165
Guide for Using Anne Frank in the Classroom, A, 258–59
Hackett, Albert, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227
handwriting of Anne Frank, forensic analysis, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48
Hartog, Lammert, 52
Harwood, Richard, 243
Hazel, Doreen, 254–55
Hellman, Lillian, 177, 190, 191, 192, 193, 199, 201, 203, 205
Hendry, Teressa, 243
Hepburn, Audrey, 228–29
Heren, knechten, en Vrouwen (van Ammers-Küller), 146–47
Hersey, John, 81, 183
Het Acherhuis (Frank), 12, 13, 17, 39, 74, 78–79, 91, 106, 125–26
as Anne’s title, 12, 13, 264
intended opening, 132
introduction by Annie Romein, 79–80
Het Parool, 77–78
Heydrich, Reynhard, 40, 41
Hillesum, Elly, 54, 95
Hinterleitner, Norbert, 165–66, 167, 171, 173, 174, 269
Hitler and His Generals (Irving), 243–44
Hoagland, Molly Magid, 221, 223
Holland. See also Amsterdam anti-Jewish measures instituted, 34–36, 133
bombing of Rotterdam, 33
collaborators in, 42–43
deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42
The Diary as depicting war in, 126
Dutch capitulation and cooperation with the Nazis, 70
Dutch Resistance, 33–34, 43, 45, 54, 77–78
German invasion, 33–34
Jewish Affairs Section, Gestapo, 64
Jewish Council, 38, 42
Jewish population killed or deported during the occupation, second only to Poland, 42
Jewish refugees in, 33
Westerbork detention center, 33, 51, 53, 54–55, 95
Hollander, Oma (grandmother), 28, 109
death of, 39
Holocaust (Nazi genocide). See also Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Westerbork; specific extermination camps Anne Frank Foundation and education about, 164
denial of, 239–49
deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42
The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the greatest books about, 5, 126, 127
“final solution” enacted at Wannsee Conference, 40–41
forced marches, 60, 145–46
mass deportations of Jews, 37
number of people killed, 254, 258
street roundups (razzia) of Jews, 35
teaching students about, 254–58
transport lists, 170
Hope Against Hope (Mandelstam), 174
Hopper, Dennis, 208
Huber, Gusti, 208
“Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank, The” (Bettelheim), 166–67
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 21
Into That Darkness (Serenyi), 173
Into the Whirlwind (Ginsburg), 174–75
Irving, David, 243–44
Iskander, Sylvia P., 146–47
Israel Soldiers Theatre, 194
Jacobi, Lou, 208
Japan, 20
Anne no Nikki (anime cartoon), 21
Jewish Advisory Council, 232
Jewish Lyceum, 36–37
Anne Frank writes about, 37
pantomime to communicate fate of missing children, 37
Johnson, Rebecca Kelch, 255
Jones, Judith, 82, 181
Jones, Stephanie, 259
Joop ter Heul (van Marxveldt), 90–91, 148, 152
Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 50
Kalb, Bernard, 209
Kaletta, Charlotte, 59, 75, 117, 119
Kanin, Garson, 193, 205, 206, 207, 208–10
Kantrowitz, Andrea, 268
Kazan, Elia, 192
Keller, Michelle, 257
Kesselman, Wendy, 219–21, 248
“kitsch absolution,” 167
Kitty (invented confidante), 23, 39, 42, 90–91, 95, 96, 98, 115, 116, 127, 135
Kleiman, Corrie, 48–49
Kleiman, Johannes, 46, 48–49, 52, 147, 151, 161, 206, 237
aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 48
Anne’s pseudonym for (Koophius), 46
arrest of, 69, 71
coded correspondence with Otto’s family in Basel kept by, 48
return to Opekta and desire to read the diaries, 72–73
survival of, 72
Klemperer, Viktor, 95
Koco ice cream parlor, 35
Koestler, Arthur, 171
Kopf, Hedda Rosner, 263
Kugler, Viktor, 47, 48, 52, 64, 237
aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 49
arrest of, 69, 72
bookcase to hide annex constructed by, 49
as “Kraler” in the diary, 49 survival of, 72
Kuhn, Ernst, 81
Landau, Tina, 221
Langer, Lawrence, 168
Lapine, James, 219
Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, The (documentary and book adaptation), 54, 57–58
Lavin, Linda, 220
Lederman, Susanne, 29
Les Maisons hantées de Meyer Levin (Torres), 177
“Letters from Paris” (Flanner), 82
Levi, Primo, 160, 171, 175
Levin, Meyer, 87–88, 177, 241, 266
adaptation of The Diary for AJC, 191
at Bergen-Belsen, 178
lawsuit against Cheryl Crawford and Otto Frank, 207, 210–11, 241, 243
The Obsession, 181–84, 194
review of The Diary, 87–88, 181, 183–86, 202
settlement won by, 211
theatrical adaptation of The Diary and, 178–99, 201–2, 204–5, 216
theatrical adaptation written by, 193–99
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 171–72
Lewinsohn, Mr. (“Mr. Lewin”), 46–47
Lindwer, Willy, 54, 58
Literature, Persecution, Extermination (Dresden), 170
“Literature as Invitation” (Probst), 261
Little, Brown publishers, 180
Lively, Pierce, 267
Love, Otto (Weiss), 172–73
Mandela, Nelson, 162
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 174
Mapes, Elizabeth A., 262
Marks, Joseph, 194
Maus (Spiegelman), 268
Mauthausen camp, 35
death of Peter van Pels in, 59
McCleary, Sara, 265
McCullers, Carson, 199–200
Mellor, William, 227–28
Melnick, Ralph, 177, 192
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 199
Menuhin, Yehudi, 179
Mermin, Myer, 191, 207
Miller, Arthur, 191
Molloy, James, 271
Montessori school, Amsterdam: Jewish children at, survival of, 35
Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 265–68
Mulisch, Harry, 8
Müller, Melissa, 117
“My First Day at the Lyceum” (Frank), 36–37
National Alliance (neo-Nazi group), 248
National Coalition Against Censorship, 265
Nederlander Am 219
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, 12
forensic handwriting analysis of Anne’s work, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48
Presser’s The Destruction of the Dutch Jews, 37–38
publication of Revised Critical Edition, 16
publication of The Critical Edition, 16
Neuengamme camp, 59, 118
Neutral Milk Hotel, 21
Newman, Arnold, 233
Newsweek review of play, 216–17
New Yorker Janet Flanner article, 82, 180
review of Goodrich-Hackett play adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 217
New York Review of Books, 83
New York Times report on attacks on the diary’s authenticity, 248
review of Goodrich-Hackett play adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 216–17
review of Kesselman adaptation of play, 221
New York Times Book Review assignment of reviewer, 87, 184–85
review of The Diary, 87–88, 181, 183–86, 202
Nielsen, Harald, 241
“Not Even a Nice Girl” (Thurman), 7
Nussbaum, Laureen, 17–18, 135, 139, 154–55
Obsession, The (Levin), 177, 181–83
Obsession with Anne Frank, An (Graver), 177
O’Connor, Flannery, 88
Odets, Clifford, 190
Opekta Company, 6, 11, 27, 46, 47.
See also annex (secret annex) front office, as part of Anne Frank Museum, 161
relocation to 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40
renamed Gies and Company, 49
Ozick, Cynthia, 170, 172, 173, 174, 178, 220, 222, 266, 267
Perkins, Millie, 230–31, 233–34, 236
Persepolis (Satrapi), 268
Pfeffer, Fritz, 4
arrives at secret annex, 51, 93
Auguste van Pels and, 118, 123
as Dussel in diary, 44, 116
fate after discovery in annex, 59, 118
mealtimes in the annex, 102
Miep Gies and, 44
portrayal of in diary and Broadway play, 75, 102, 116–19
response to deficient diet, 103
Pick-Goslar, Hanneli (“Lies”), 6, 28, 29, 36–37, 50, 60, 109
video at Anne Frank Museum, talking about Anne’s final days, 57, 160
Pierce, William, 248
Poland emigration of Jews to, 42
largest percentage of Jewish population killed, 42
Portman, Natalie, 221–22, 223
Presser, Jacob, 37–38
Pressler Miram 10 90 149–50
Pretzien, Germany, 248–49
Price, Frank, 82, 181, 199
Probst, Robert, 261
Querido publishers, 81
“Reading Anne Frank as a Woman” (Waaldijk), 108
Remembering the Holocaust (Keller), 257
revisions of The Diary (“b” version), 10, 13, 14–15, 17, 18–19, 79, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135–53, 154–55
revisions of The Diary (cont.) depiction of blowup over reading of a controversial work, comparison of versions, 146–47
first entries and second draft, comparison analysis, 135–53
Romein, Annie, 77, 79
Romein, Jan, 77, 78
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 185, 211
“jocular anti-Semitism” of, 86
preface to The Diary by, 85–87
Roth, Heinz, 244
Roth, Philip, 4, 8, 11, 13, 21, 136, 154
Sachsenhausen camp, 59
Satrapi, Marjane, 268
Schildkraut, Joesph, 207–9, 227
Schnabel, Ernst, 30, 32, 56
Schütz, Anneliese, 80
Search, The (Levin), 179, 184
Sebastian, Mikhail, 95
Secker and Warburg publishers, 81
secret annex. See annex (secret annex)
Serenyi, Gitta, 173
Shore, Lesley, 256–57
Silberbauer, Karl Josef, 64–69, 71–72
60 Minutes, 21
Sobibor camp, 173
Spector, Karen, 259
Spiegelman, Art, 268
Stalinist Russia, 174–75
Stangl, Franz, 173
Stern, G. B., 7
Stevens, George, 227–28, 229, 231–37
D-Day footage on YouTube, 237
Stielau, Lothar, 241, 261
Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, The (Melnick), 177
Stone, David, 219
Stone, John, 232
Stoppelman, Max, 59
Strasberg, Susan, 208, 228
Straus, Nathan, 25, 41
Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 175
Tales from the Secret Annex or Tales from the House Behind (Frank), 7, 36, 71, 74
“The Battle of the Potatoes,” 124–25
Cady’s Life (novel fragment), 106, 197–98
“Delusions of Stardom,” 226
teaching The Diary, 9, 19, 21, 154, 171, 253–69
anti-Semitism today, 269
author’s approach, 262–64
author’s class at Bard College, 271–77
author visits Bell Academy, 268–69
Cliffs Notes on The Diary of Anne Frank, 253
“Cyberhunt Teacher’s Page,” 260
depiction of Anne and her story, 259–60
efforts to ban teaching of, 264–68
Goodrich-Hackett drama taught in lieu of The Diary, 262
grim reality of, 256
historical context, helping students learn about, 254
positive element, 256–57
teacher preparation for, 254–55, 257–61
test questions and exams, 257, 258–59
“Teaching the Holocaust” (Johnson), 255
“Teaching the Holocaust Through the Diary of Anne Frank” (Baumel), 263
Tenth Muse, The (Jones), 82
Thieresienstadt camp, 60
Thurman, Judith, 7, 17
Time magazine, 88
Torres, Tereska, 177, 179–80, 182–83, 204
Treblinka camp, 173
Turner Diaries (Pierce), 248
20th Century Fox, 227, 231
Tynan, Kenneth, 218
Ukraine, 165
United States publication of The Diary in, 80–88
refusal to grant asylum to the Frank family, 20, 41
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Auschwitz depicted, 55
home movie of Anne Frank in, 31–32
Mellor film footage in, 227–28
Vallentine-Mitchell publishers, 180
Van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Rachel, 54, 57–58
Van Ammers-Küller, Jo, 146–47
Van der Waal, Jopie, 30
Vanguard Press, 81
Van Maaren, W. G., 51–52
Van Maarsen, Jacqueline (Jacque), 39
Van Marxveldt, Cissy, 90–91
Van Pels, Auguste, 4, 44, 99, 226
arrives at secret annex, 50
bathing arrangements, 101
desire to read the diary, 11
fate after discovery in annex, 55, 59–60, 112, 145–46
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
mealtimes, 101
passages about cut by Otto Frank, 6
Pfeffer and, 118, 123
portrayal in The Diary, 107, 110–12, 124–25, 142–46
portrayal in the film, 145, 232–33
response to deficient diet, 103
Van Pels, Hermann, 4, 44
arrives at secret annex, 50
bathing arrangements, 101
fate after discovery in annex, 55, 59, 112
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
mealtimes, 101
as overseer for Pectacon, 40
passages about cut by Otto Frank, 6
portrayal in The Diary, 110–12, 123–24, 142–46
response to deficient diet, 103
Van Pels, Peter, 44, 59
Anne’s romance with, 4, 16, 104, 113, 114–16, 119, 125
arrest of, 63, 116
arrives at secret annex, 50, 113
bathing arrangements, 101
in the Diary, 75
fate after discovery in annex, 55
game, fantasies of liberation, 102
mealtimes, 101
portrayal in The Diary, 112–16, 123, 197
portrayal in the film, 233
response to deficient diet, 103
revisions of writing about, 136, 137–39
Viking Press, 81
von Randwijk, Henk, 43
Voskuijl, Elizabeth “Bep,” 52, 71, 73, 102, 136, 242
Voskuijl, Johannes, 51, 52, 136
“Mr. Vossen” in The Diary, 102
Waaldijk, Berteke, 108
Wall, The (Hersey), 81, 183–84, 185
Ward, Geoffrey C., 86
war diaries b adults 54 95–96
Warshaw, Robert, 82–83
Weiss, Cara (Cara Wilson), 172–73
Weitz, Marc Stuart, 21
Westerbork detention center, 33, 95
Amsterdam’s Jews sent to, 51
Anne Frank at, 54–55
“criminal Jews” classification, 53
diary of Etty Hillesum and, 54
Frank family seen at, 54
Margot Frank ordered to report there, 49–50
occupants of the annex arrive in, 53
transports to Auschwitz from, 53, 55
White, Antonia, 85
Who Betrayed Anne Frank? (TV movie), 21
“Who Owns Anne Frank?” (Ozick), 170, 172, 222
Wiesenthal, Simon, 66–67
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 33–34
Williams, Tennessee, 200
Winters, Shelley, 145, 232–33, 235
Wise Blood (O’Connor), 88
Wood, Natalie, 229
World War I: Otto Frank’s service in, 25–26
Wyler, William, 227
YIVO Institute, 20, 41
Zimmerman, Barbara (Epstein), 83–88, 185, 187, 199
letters to Otto Frank, 88, 186