Attic Air Anne Frank Diary
May 16 2018 at 6 36 am edt anne frank s diary entries record the 25 months she spent hiding from nazis from 1942 to 1944 with her family and others in a secret attic annex in occupied amsterdam.
Attic air anne frank diary. It is based on miep gies s book anne frank remembered. Playwright william hanley received an emmy for his script. Up to now this glorious cupboard has been located in peter s room but in the interests of fresh air it s been moved to the attic. Most of us are still in our first weeks or month of social distancing.
Anne frank s family was in hiding for a total of 25 months before they were discovered by the gestapo in august 1944. But anne died of typhus in the bergen belsen concentration camp at age 15. Based upon gies memoirs and anne frank s famous diary. She found anne s diary and she took it for safekeeping planning to return it to anne after the war.
Plot summary add synopsis. In memoriam in which anne recounts how she received her fountain pen as a gift from her grandmother when she was nine and how it was accidentally burned in the stove that day november 11 1943. Otto frank s friends and colleagues johannes kleiman victor kugler jan gies and miep gies had helped to prepare the hiding place and smuggled food and clothing to the franks at great risk to their own lives. For two years they lived in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family owned business at 263 prinsengracht street which anne referred to in her diary as the secret annex.
The diary of anne frank 9 21 1942 9 29 1942 lyrics. The film tells the true story of gies struggle to keep the family hidden and safe as the nazis turn amsterdam upside down. Other than that the people in hiding used the room mainly for storage purposes. The hiding of anne frank is a 1988 television film directed by john erman.
The film was broadcast as part of an ad hoc network kraft golden showcase network.