Real History and Anne Frank Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech The diary, which has been translated into more than 50 languages and has sold more than 25 million copies, stands at the core of what can fairly be called The Anne Frank Industry.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Little Rock, June 13, 2004 Anne Frank at 75 A birthday that never happened brings reflections on the uses and misuses of history By Jack Schnedler ANNE Frank would have celebrated her 75th birthday this weekend. We can imagine her as a gray-haired great-grandmother, being toasted Saturday by family and friends in her Amsterdam home. Her older sister, Margot , is there. So are a son and a daughter, three grandchildren and two great-grandkids.
Anne Frank is a widow in this scenario, her beloved husband of four decades having passed away. She still faithfully keeps a diary, a habit since her teenage years, although she now types it into the desktop computer that was a birthday gift from the family in 2002. She has always loved to write, even if she never did achieve her adolescent ambition to become a famous author. She worked just a few years for a Dutch newspaper before marriage and motherhood turned her into a housewife.
There remains a lingering tinge of regret that she never went