Anne Frank's Lost Love Revealed

Creator compares teen's life to tragic opera

(NEWSER) - A first-of-its-kind musical adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank will take the stage in Madrid next month, the Guardian reports. The Spanish-language play gained the approval of the Anne Frank Foundation, which closely guards the rights to the story of the doomed Jewish teenager; a spokesman says the work "respects the message of tolerance, within the tragedy, that we want to keep alive." More»

Told fairy tales to smaller children at Bergen Belsen

(NEWSER) - Anne Frank spent the final weeks of her life distracting younger children from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp in which she ultimately died by telling them fairy tales, says a Dutch woman who as a six-year-old was interned with her at the Bergen Belsen camp. In a new memoir, Berthe Meijer recalls the 15-year-old Anne as a gifted storyteller who told fairy tales "in which nasty things happened, and that was of course very much related to the war," Meijer said. More»

Miep Gies kept girl's papers, helped father assemble diary

(NEWSER) - The last surviving member of the Dutch group that protected famed diarist Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam during World War II died today at 100. Miep Gies assembled Anne’s papers after she and her family were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and, because they were Jewish, taken to concentration camps; though Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen, her father, Otto, survived, and, with Gies, assembled Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, published in 1947. More»

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

(NEWSER) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an Amsterdam neighbor’s wedding, shows Anne peering down at the scene from an upstairs window. The couple gave it to Frank’s father in the 1950s after the publication of her diary. More»

(NEWSER) - Disney has bought the rights to film a new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, Variety reports. The diary of a young girl who hid from the Nazis was first filmed 50 years ago. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will be writing and directing the movie, and Andrew Braunsberg, best known for Being There, will be producing. More»