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(More customer reviews)This is a nice video overview of the life of Anne Frank produced by A&E's Biography. The people at Biography almost always do a nice job and this episode is no exception. There's not a lot of detail but there are some nice interviews with people like Otto Frank and Miep Gies. Hearing their voices adds something for those who have only read of them. This is what I think is the true power of videos like this--it allows readers to put faces and voices to names.
I think this video is also nice because is fills in the spaces around the period covered by Anne in her diary, particularly what happened after the Franks were arrested and Anne could no longer write. It is important for people who have only read the diary itself to become aware of these other events.
On the other hand, no video (even the best of them--Anne Frank Remembered) can presently compete with the quality of written material out there. There are so many excellent books covering every segment of Anne's life that it would be a shame for someone who is truly interested in Anne to limit themselves to this video.
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Her Diaryis one of the most widely read books in the world.Yet thetime she spent hiding from the Nazis is but one chapter in her remarkable life. Anne Frank has become an international symbol of the horror and hatred of the Naziregime emdash an innocent, intelligent young girl swept up by their voracious killingmachine.The document she left behind (one of a very few things not taken when theGerman soldiers raided the "secret annex" of the Frank home in Amsterdam) is aremarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit under the worst of conditions.Inthis moving BIOGRAPHY®, the details of Anne's life outside the attic are revealed. From the carefree days of her early childhood in Germany to the harrowing months shespent at Bergen-Belsen before succumbing to typhus, scholars and survivors tell whatthey know of the young girl who has become a worldwide icon.The story of her life is atragedy, but the enduring message is one of hope and tolerance that will never die.
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