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T

he way the world interprets
the diary of Anne Frank has
evolved in recent years, and
Anne Frank's universal mes-
sage of hope in the face of tragedy has
become less hopeful, less universal and
more
traaic
b according
,
to a Bowling
Green University professor.
Elizabeth Heineman told a rapt
audience of 50
during a speech
Sunday at
Border's in
Farmington
Hills sponsored
by the Cohn-
Haddow Center
for Judaic Studies at Wayne State
University, that information released
in recent years has led people to
rethink the message.
The diary "became enshrined in
American culture" as the representa-
tive writing of World War II, she said.
In the 1950s, the people involved
in publicizing the book and writing
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play put
their personal "stamps" on the diary,
giving a more positive message - and
the largest stamp belonged to Otto
Frank, Anne's father. Otto, who took
out the embarrassing parts of her

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diary, "was seeing her through rose-
colored glasses" and glossed over the
ugliness, said Heineman, who teaches
the Holocaust and modern European
and German history.
When the book was turned into a
play, the optimism followed.
In a period where American Jews
sought assimilation and no interest in
ethnic identity existed, Otto Frank,
highly assimilated in his own right
before the war and a German officer in
World War I,
wanted to create
a positive message
in the play, she
said. The writers
added lines to
make the story
more universal.
After the release, reviews called the
play not grim. It "avoided hating the
Nazis," and was "frequently humorous."
It became "a heart-warming story of
keeping your spirits up in the face of
adversity," Heineman said, "the next best
thing you can get to a happy ending.
The perky, idealistic Anne Frank
portrayed through the movie, the play
and the edited version of the diary
"was easy to criticize, but it did intro-
duce hundreds of millions to the
Holocaust," she said. "Non-Jews could
identify via Anne Frank."
After all, she said, the Frank family

Elizabeth Heineman speaks at Borders

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