The book "Ana Frank's diary" In addition to being a fairly cruel real story of the life of its protagonist, it has been generating certain controversies for some time now. What is the "controversy" you are causing? Specifically, a legal dispute between those who defend that the work must be spirit copyright (as of this current year, 2016) and the Anne Frank Fund of Basel in Switzerland, which claims the validity of the book's emission rights.
What does this foundation hold to to affirm this with such emphaticness? To his last statements, where they finally recognized that Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, had been a co-author of such writings and not just an editor as it was known until now. Therefore, the copyright would not expire this year. According to the law in force in the Netherlands, the copyright of a work expires 70 years after the death of the author. If we do calculations, Anne Frank died in March 1945 in the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. But his father, Otto Frank, passed away in 1980. It is for this reason that the foundation demands that this work remain under copyright until 2050.
Said newspaper was analyzed by Minna beckera calligrapher expert, who affirmed that all the writing of the newspaper belongs to the same hand. But after this, the letters authentic stories that Anne Frank wrote as a child to friends (these were published in the US). LThe handwriting of these letters does have the normal appearance of a 10 or 12-year-old girl, very different from the "original manuscript", whose handwriting is from a much older person.
So who actually wrote "Ana Frank's diary"? Wasn't the girl herself as they have been selling us up to now? Are people so cruel that by selling a book they appropriate the real and non-fictional suffering that a 12-year-old girl, like hundreds of thousands of people, suffered in those concentration camps? Could be…
Excerpts from the book
(July 8, 1942) - Mom has gone to the Van Daan house to see if we can live from tomorrow, our hideout. The Van Daan will hide there with us. We will be seven. In our bedroom, Margot confessed to me that the summons was not for Dad but for herself. Scared again, I started crying. Margot is sixteen years old. So they want to let girls of their age go alone! Fortunately, like Mom said, he won't go.
(November 19th 1942) We could close our eyes to all this misery, but we think of those who were dear to us, and for whom we fear the worst, without being able to help them. In my warm bed, I feel less than nothing when I think of the friends I loved the most, uprooted from their homes and falling into this hell. I am afraid to brood that those who were so close to me are now in the hands of the most cruel executioners in the world. For the sole reason that they are Jewish.
(January 5, 1944) Dear kitty: what happens to me seems wonderful: not only the visible changes in my body, but what is happening inside me. I never talk to anyone about these things, which is why I must tell them to you. Every time I have my period only three times - I have the feeling of keeping a very tender secret, despite the pain and discomfort. That is why although in a way it is a drag, I want this secret to be repeated. Before coming here, I unconsciously experienced similar sensations, because I remember spending the night at a friend's house, I had the irresistible urge to kiss her, which I certainly did. I was very curious about his body, which I had never seen. As proof of our friendship, I asked her to feel each other's breasts, but she refused. Every time I see the image of a naked woman, like for example, Venus, I am ecstatic. She seems so wonderfully beautiful to me that it is hard for me to stop the tears. If only I had a friend!
The Story of Anne Frank (film)
If you like cinema, here you can see the film that was made about the girl's life:
There are people who have to be everyone, universal and Ana is.
Those who doubt Anne Frank are envious because the same reading is seen to be the feeling of a girl a man is going to be talking about his sexuality. ignorant Anne Frank is the author
I read the newspaper long before learning about this controversy. As I read it, I couldn't help but think that this diary, that way of expressing herself, that way of thinking, was not typical of a girl between 13 and 15 years old.
Although initially I attributed it to the translation, the idea that there was a cat locked up always remained with me.
Calling someone who thinks about a book ignorant is not correct. Every book leaves feelings and the author is thought about. Sometimes we don't just focus on the story or story.
It would not be ruled out that it was a gross manipulation, throughout history there have been hundreds if not thousands of cases of literary fraud for the simple purpose of profit and that newspaper, if it is, gave Otto Frank a lot, a lot of money.
Above all, I have 2 doubts that the Jews who arrived at the camps were stripped of all belongings, including their clothes, so where did they hide the diary? The stripping of the Jews of their belongings is not said or affirmed by me, but by the thousands of Jews who survived the holocaust and were lucky enough to tell their story to the world.
And my other doubt is how Anna Frank's father could remember, if not all, most of the diary, with the inhumane treatment that the Jews received, I doubt very much that after a short time he could remember even a small part of the diary, and even more so after 2 years. of memories.
So I do not deny the holocaust at all , it is an indisputable fact that has no possible discussion , but I do have my doubts about this " diary " . We could be facing another possible literary fraud that has made a lot of money at the expense of the hardships and suffering of a girl.