Meeting Anne Frank: An Anthology (Revised Edition)

A truly heartfelt and engaging book...The writing is insightful and thoughtful... detailed research really and truly make this a memorable and important read. -Pacific Book Review. This anthology will be a welcome addition to the body of work about Annes short life and her enduring legacy. [It is] worthy of inclusion in libraries and archives. (Recommended) -US Review of Books. Thoroughly researched and very thoughtfully and carefully edited. -Dr. Laureen Nussbaum (childhood friend of Anne and Margot Frank) Meeting Anne Frank: An Anthology captures the stories of some twenty of us who have walked with Anne Frank and her sister Margot as kindred spirits over the course of the many decades that have elapsed since both girls died from typhus and Nazi cruelty in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.None writing here actually met or knew Anne personally but we have talked to her and journeyed with her kindred spirit. Anne Frank unites us at a time when so much of the world is riven by the familiar and divisive themes of partisan politics anti-Semitism and prejudice.You will though be meeting those who did know Annes most adorable father Otto and they have kindly shared their vivid stories in this volume. You will be seeing how we cherish not just the loving father-daughter relationship that has come to mean so much for many of us but also the inspiration of Annes patient mother Edith and her ladylike older sister Margot. Several of Annes surviving school friends also appear in the journeys undertaken by a number of my contributors.In the years since she died in 1945 Anne Frank has become variously the sister mother wife daughter girlfriend or best friend to each of us writing for this anthology and to many in the wider world. We honor the happy and tragic story of Annes brief life and recognize the existence of at least two Annes in both her sense of fun and mischief and in her growing self-awareness while in hiding.Anne was only a child while she lived freely at Merwedeplein 37 in Amsterdam The Netherlands and barely a teenager when she died in a Nazi concentration camp for the simple crime of being Jewish.Anne wanted to go on living after [her] death in February or March 1945 and I hope we have honored her lasting wish in this work.