The
United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January - the anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this
annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six
million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism
and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
In The Diary of Anne Frank a Jewish teenager chronicled her family’s two years (1942–44) in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The book was first published in 1947, two years after Anne’s death in a concentration camp, and later became a classic of war literature.
This animated version of
Anne Frank's famous diary makes her story easily accessible for a new
generation without losing the power of the original text. Most moving is Anne's
internal life, her reaction to their persecution, and subsequent life of total
isolation, silence, terror and ultimately the positive and humanitarian
attitude she is able to maintain. The film's most significant success is its
ability to use the diary entries to create an Anne Frank who is compelling and
endearing without being tearful.
Yoshua Ford
