#otto frank

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In this photo is Audrey Hepburn with Otto Frank, Anne’s father. Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929. The actress is best known for such films as Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but did you know that she turned down playing the role of Anne Frank? Here’s why.

What many may not know about Hepburn is that as a teenager she helped the Dutch resistance in WWII. Both Hepburn and Frank were born in 1929. The two never met but Hepburn felt close to the young diarist, and lived 60 miles apart from each other. While Hepburn was not Jewish, she spent several years of the war in a cellar to use as a bomb shelter and even faced near starvation. During this time she managed to arrange illegal dance performances to support local families who were hiding Jews.

After the war, Otto reached out to Hepburn asking if she would play the role of his daughter for the movie adaptation of the well-known diary. Hepburn felt unable to play the part, having had such a traumatic experience during the war, it would be too difficult. She said of Frank: “It’s a little bit as if this had happened to my sister . . . in a way she was my soul sister.”

Photo: Luca Dotti

Humans of Judaism

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Otto, pai de Ana Frank, volta ao ático onde se esconderon durante dous anos (Ámsterdam, 1960)

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Otto Frank visits the attic where the Frank family hid from the Germans troops during World War II (1960)

The family was discovered in August 1944, after spending 761 days in hiding. It is widely believed they were betrayed by someone familiar with their hiding place, though the identity of the betrayer remains unknown. The entrance to their secret annex was concealed behind a movable bookcase but how the Nazis were alerted to or uncovered the hidden door is still unclear.

Following their arrest, Otto’s daughters, Anne and Margot, were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In March 1945, both tragically succumbed to typhus during a massive outbreak, just weeks before British forces liberated the camp. Anne was 15 years old and Margot was 19. They were buried in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen and their remains were never individually identified.

Otto Frank and his wife, Edith, were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious concentration camps. Edith died of starvation in January 1945, only weeks before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops. Otto survived and dedicated his life to preserving Anne’s diary, ensuring her voice and story would reach the world.

Otto Frank was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He passed away in 1980 at the age of 91. While he is buried in Switzerland, where he settled after the war, Edith’s body was never recovered, as she perished in Auschwitz.

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Watching A Small Light really brings back feelings from the first time I read Anne’s diary.

Like, I think I knew that Anne was killed, but I don’t think I knew the fates of the other residents of the annex.

Reading the epilogue and finding out that all of the residents except for Otto were killed was definitely a gut punch.

I have read the diary multiple times since then, and I have also read Meip’s biography, but watching this show still hit hard.

[wanderingmadscientist]

In honor of today being the day the End of Evangelion was released, I am sharing a source sheet I made for a dvar torah about evangelion.

[a-contemplative-soul]

This is a really unique and valuable interview, Anne Frank's diary is one of the most unforgettable stories ever written and having her father saying how much impact it left around the world after it was published is just a proof of how moving it was.

Channel: BBC Archive

Video: 1976 OTTO FRANK on the Diary of Anne Frank | Blue Peter | Children's Television | BBC Archive

Year: 1976

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"One of the first Americans to discover Anne Frank's diary was Meyer Levin, an American-Jewish novelist, who helped arrange for its English publication. Levin also procured from Otto Frank the right to adapt the diary as a play. Although the script Levin produced was extremely faithful to Anne Frank's original diaries, Lillian Hellman, one of the foremost playwrights of the period, told Otto Frank that Levin's script was unactable. Hellman, a pro-Stalinist, used her considerable influence to have The Diary of Anne Frank assigned to friends, with whom she worked on the script. It was this version, and not Levin's, that was subsequently produced. In the final edition of the new script, Anne Frank's statement that Judaism and its ideals were the root cause of Nazi antisemitism was eliminated. Instead, words were put into the actress's mouth that Anne had never written but which reflected the worldview of the play's writers: "We are not the only people that have had to suffer...sometimes one race, sometimes another." 

- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, page 408

[sparklytimemachineflower]

So my assignment was to write two 20 page pamphlets and create a cover for them. This one's for Anne Frank, how'd I do?

Also if anyone has a cool name idea, I'm all ears.

[andrewisdoing]

Late Night Thoughts on 8/6/2023

It’s wild to think that when I am reading about so many lives lived non-fiction or otherwise, I feel like there is so much life I haven’t lived yet, even at 29. This isn’t to say that I haven’t lived or been anywhere emotionally or physically but there are times when I feel like these people had direction in their lives. Some people lived for resistance, some for survival or both. What am I living for?

I know how this sounds. I should feel so lucky that I haven’t lived during WWII or had to make the sacrifices and risks that Otto Frank or Miep Gies had to make. I should be feeling so lucky that I didn’t have to live in hiding and have no choice but to free my mind with only my words and diary as my weaponry, like Anne.

Sometimes I just wonder what am I sacrificing in my own life? Am I living for others? Granted, I have sacrificed certain parts of myself when I raised my sisters with our mother gone, but I lived (still fighting) through that personal war with the help of family, strangers and friends. I sometimes wonder what it would take to live with that spirit alone and in the face of certain death and suffering.

Even as I read of the treatment of gay men in the Holocaust, I can’t fathom living in a world where the same flourishing atmosphere you live in crumbles and disappears into camps that individually serve you certain death on a platter. No matter how many times I read and see these past atrocities, I constantly feel so confused and baffled at the hatred that resulted in the deaths of so many human beings. The accounts are so hard to digest but here I am, drawn in and constantly in revery, disgust and awe of these stories every time.

I don’t want to forget these “dark” things that have happened and ARE happening to our humanity on earth. I don’t. I so desperately want to understand why we allow suffering and pain to be inflicted on those who are different. I truly want to fathom what drives hate into a person and makes them look at someone like me and want to kill me. It’s important to me.

It’s more than being “good” or “woke.” It’s about being the home that people need. It’s about being that ear and protection for someone who is ostracized. I just want to be the “someone” that is an emotional shelter for others.

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Anne Frank House Museum/Anne & Family Photographs By Otto Frank Books

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Here’s a bunch of designs for my spidersona’s universe

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