Deník Anne Frankové – Folman Ari (2017)

Comic edition of a world classic. Annelies Marie Frank (June 12, 1929 - March 1945) fled from Germany to Amsterdam with her parents in 1933, where the family hid in an attic apartment from 1942. The teenage Anne wrote a diary from June 12, 1942, to August 4, 1944. After their hiding place was revealed, the family was taken to concentration camps in Germany, with only the father surviving. Anne perished in Bergen-Belsen. After the war, the father published the diary, which has been translated into many languages and dramatized. Notable historian Alvin Rosenveld writes in his book The End of the Holocaust that 'through Anne Frank, more people have likely come to know about the Nazi era than through any other contemporary figure, perhaps except for Hitler himself.' Rosenveld examines numerous factors that contributed to Anne Frank becoming a symbol whose significance has not diminished even after more than seventy years. Perhaps that is why I hesitated greatly when the Anne Frank Foundation (AFF) from Basel approached me three years ago to create not only an animated film based on the Diary but also to adapt it into graphic form. Mainly, the idea of a graphic diary deterred me. When I reread the Diary—as an adult and a father of teenage children—...