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78 Detroit Jewish News
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Two years into her research on the
biography, Muller was shown the new
pages by Cornelius Sujik, international
director of the Anne Frank Center
c— \
U.S.A., who was a close friend of
Anne's father, Otto.
The pages in Anne's handwriting
— three sides of two blue sheets and
both sides of a salmon-colored sheet
— include sharp
descriptions of
Anne's mother,
Edith, and
insights about her
parents' difficult
relationship. The
salmon sheet,
intended as a revi-
sion of her
planned introduc-
tion to the book,
tells of Anne's
intention to keep
the diary private.
Because the
Anne Frank: The
Anne Frank Fonds
Biography (Holt; $23)
(Foundation) in
is the first full-scale
Basel, holders of
biography of Anne,
the copyright on
written by a 31-year
the diary, refused
old German journal-
to grant Muller
ist, Melissa Muller.
permission to
Newsmaking in its
reprint the pages,
revelations, the book
their contents
presents new infor-
appear in the
mation about the per-
book in a para-
son responsible for
phrased form. (A
betraying the family
Dutch newspaper
in hiding and also
recently printed
uncovers five addi-
the actual pages
tional, previously
and made them
unknown pages of
available on the
revisions to the diary
Internet.)
Author Melissa Muller
Muller presents
According to
evidence, based on
Muller, Otto
police reports and an
Frank did not want the public to see
investigation after the war, implicat-
the 74 lines the remarkably percep-
ing a cleaning woman, Lena van
tive diarist wrote about her parents'
Bladeren Hartog, as having leaked
passionless marriage; she viewed
information to the Gestapo that there
their relationship as tragic because
were Jews in a secret annex of Otto
Edith loved Otto, and although he c(
Frank's warehouse.
respected and valued her, the love
Hartog, whose husband worked at
wasn't returned.
the warehouse illegally (having
The author writes that Otto Frank
ignored a summons for labor ser-
put these pages, which were a revi-
vice), died in 1963, a few months
sion of an earlier entry, along with
before the case was reopened by the
the new introduction into an enve-
Amsterdam police.
I
n June, had she lived, Anne
Frank would be 70 years old.
Public interest in the young
Anne Frank and in her diary
— an account of her 25 months hid-
ing from the Nazis in a secret annex
in Amsterdam, is unceasing. It has
now been translated into 55 lan-
guages, with more
than 25 million
copies sold.
Recent years have
brought forth new
editions of the diary, a
revival of the
Broadway play, docu-
mentary films, chil-
dren's books, disserta-
tions and critical arti-
cles — with frequent
contention between
the people and organi-
zations who claim to
represent her interests.
A German
journalist writes
the first full-scale
biography of World
War Ifs most
famous diarist.