Akron Public Library

A dramatization of Anne Frank's diary in which she recorded her thoughts about hiding from the Nazis for two years in an attic in Amsterdam. Eventually, Anne and her family were discovered and sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She died there in March 1945.

A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland. El diario de una niña registra las luchas de su familia durante dos años de haberse escondido de los nazis en la guerra de Holanda.

Adapted from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank, winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and twenty two days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into...

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh and Glenn Close, this features vintage newsreels, phtographs and even a rare home movie to look beyond the celebrated pages of Anne's diary.