signs family up for “voluntary emigration,” 38
survival of and return to Amsterdam, 73
Swiss residence of, 203
thank-you letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, 86–87
theatrical adaptation of The Diary and, 180–81, 186–91, 199–200, 203–4, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 222
tolerance and ethics of, 189
visa granted to Cuba, 41
in World War I, 25–26, 65
youth of, 24, 25–26
Frank, Robert (uncle), 25
Freedom Writers (film), 21
Freedom Writers Diary, The, 21
Freud, Sigmund, 247
Geiringer-Schloss, Eva, 29
Geiringer-Schloss, Fritzi (later Elfriede Frank), 29, 83, 200, 206, 227, 228
Geiss, Edgar, 244
Germany (Nazi). See also Holocaust (Nazi genocide) anti-Jewish laws, 32, 34–39
anti-Jewish violence, 27
boycott of German-Jewish businessmen, 27
dehumanization of the Jews, 173
denial of the Holocaust and, 240
Germany (Nazi) (Cont.) emigration of German and Austrian Jews, 40
evil done by, 172
invasion of Holland, 33–34
Otto Frank leaves, 33
reality of Anne’s message and, 168
Wannsee Conference and “final solution,” 40–41
Ghost Writer, The (Roth), 4, 8, 11, 13, 21–22
Gies, Jan, 43–44, 48, 59, 242
in the Resistance, 45
Gies, Miep, 52, 242
arresting officer remembered by, 65
attempt to bribe Silberbauer into releasing the Franks, 71–72
on Auguste van Pels, 111
background and relationship to the Franks, 43–45
on Franks’ apartment, 34–35
identity card, 160
interruption of Anne at work depicted by, 6–7
introduced to butcher to provide annex with meat, 40
observation of Edith Frank, 107
Otto Frank finds a forgotten bean, 123
passage about cut by Otto Frank, 24–25
Pfeffer and, 117
preparation of the secret annex and, 48
recalls Otto Frank’s reading of Anne’s diary, 73–74
recovery and safe-keeping of Anne’s diary and writings, 70–71, 72, 223
in the Resistance, 45
survival of, 60
wedding and urgency of marriage, 44
willingness to help the Franks and others, 45, 59, 69–70
on yellow stars worn by Jews, 38–39
Gilford, Jack, 208
Ginsburg, Eugenia, 174–75
Goldstein-van Cleef, Ronnie, 55
Goldwyn, Samuel, 227
Goodrich, Frances, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227
Goslar, Ruth, 28
Graver, Lawrence, 177
Guatemala, 165
Guide for Using Anne Frank in the Classroom, A, 258–59
Hackett, Albert, 193, 196, 197, 200–207, 227
handwriting of Anne Frank, forensic analysis, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48
Hartog, Lammert, 52
Harwood, Richard, 243
Hazel, Doreen, 254–55
Hellman, Lillian, 177, 190, 191, 192, 193, 199, 201, 203, 205
Hendry, Teressa, 243
Hepburn, Audrey, 228–29
Heren, knechten, en Vrouwen (van Ammers-Küller), 146–47
Hersey, John, 81, 183
Het Acherhuis (Frank), 12, 13, 17, 39, 74, 78–79, 91, 106, 125–26
as Anne’s title, 12, 13, 264
intended opening, 132
introduction by Annie Romein, 79–80
Het Parool, 77–78
Heydrich, Reynhard, 40, 41
Hillesum, Elly, 54, 95
Hinterleitner, Norbert, 165–66, 167, 171, 173, 174, 269
Hitler and His Generals (Irving), 243–44
Hoagland, Molly Magid, 221, 223
Holland. See also Amsterdam anti-Jewish measures instituted, 34–36, 133
bombing of Rotterdam, 33
collaborators in, 42–43
deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42
The Diary as depicting war in, 126
Dutch capitulation and cooperation with the Nazis, 70
Dutch Resistance, 33–34, 43, 45, 54, 77–78
Jewish Affairs Section, Gestapo, 64
Jewish Council, 38, 42
Jewish population killed or deported during the occupation, second only to Poland, 42
Jewish refugees in, 33
Westerbork detention center, 33, 51, 53, 54–55, 95
Hollander, Oma (grandmother), 28, 109
death of, 39
Holocaust (Nazi genocide). See also Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Westerbork; specific extermination camps Anne Frank Foundation and education about, 164
denial of, 239–49
deportation of 40,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, 42
The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the greatest books about, 5, 126, 127
“final solution” enacted at Wannsee Conference, 40–41
forced marches, 60, 145–46
mass deportations of Jews, 37
number of people killed, 254, 258
street roundups (razzia) of Jews, 35
teaching students about, 254–58
transport lists, 170
Hope Against Hope (Mandelstam), 174
Hopper, Dennis, 208
Huber, Gusti, 208
“Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank, The” (Bettelheim), 166–67
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 21
Into That Darkness (Serenyi), 173
Into the Whirlwind (Ginsburg), 174–75
Irving, David, 243–44
Iskander, Sylvia P., 146–47
Israel Soldiers Theatre, 194
Jacobi, Lou, 208
Japan, 20
Anne no Nikki (anime cartoon), 21
Jewish Advisory Council, 232
Jewish Lyceum, 36–37
Anne Frank writes about, 37
pantomime to communicate fate of missing children, 37
Johnson, Rebecca Kelch, 255
Jones, Judith, 82, 181
Jones, Stephanie, 259
Joop ter Heul (van Marxveldt), 90–91, 148, 152
Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands, 50
Kalb, Bernard, 209
Kaletta, Charlotte, 59, 75, 117, 119
Kanin, Garson, 193, 205, 206, 207, 208–10
Kantrowitz, Andrea, 268
Kazan, Elia, 192
Keller, Michelle, 257
Kesselman, Wendy, 219–21, 248
“kitsch absolution,” 167
Kitty (invented confidante), 23, 39, 42, 90–91, 95, 96, 98, 115, 116, 127, 135
Kleiman, Corrie, 48–49
Kleiman, Johannes, 46, 48–49, 52, 147, 151, 161, 206, 237
aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 48
Anne’s pseudonym for (Koophius), 46
arrest of, 69, 71
coded correspondence with Otto’s family in Basel kept by, 48
return to Opekta and desire to read the diaries, 72–73
survival of, 72
Klemperer, Viktor, 95
Koco ice cream parlor, 35
Koestler, Arthur, 171
Kopf, Hedda Rosner, 263
Kugler, Viktor, 47, 48, 52, 64, 237
aid to the occupants of the secret annex, 49
arrest of, 69, 72
bookcase to hide annex constructed by, 49
as “Kraler” in the diary, 49 survival of, 72
Kuhn, Ernst, 81
Landau, Tina, 221
Langer, Lawrence, 168
Lapine, James, 219
Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, The (documentary and book adaptation), 54, 57–58
Lavin, Linda, 220
Lederman, Susanne, 29
Les Maisons h
antées de Meyer Levin (Torres), 177
“Letters from Paris” (Flanner), 82
Levi, Primo, 160, 171, 175
Levin, Meyer, 87–88, 177, 241, 266
adaptation of The Diary for AJC, 191
at Bergen-Belsen, 178
lawsuit against Cheryl Crawford and Otto Frank, 207, 210–11, 241, 243
The Obsession, 181–84, 194
review of The Diary, 87–88, 181, 183–86, 202
settlement won by, 211
theatrical adaptation of The Diary and, 178–99, 201–2, 204–5, 216
theatrical adaptation written by, 193–99
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 171–72
Lewinsohn, Mr. (“Mr. Lewin”), 46–47
Lindwer, Willy, 54, 58
Literature, Persecution, Extermination (Dresden), 170
“Literature as Invitation” (Probst), 261
Little, Brown publishers, 180
Lively, Pierce, 267
Love, Otto (Weiss), 172–73
Mandela, Nelson, 162
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 174
Mapes, Elizabeth A., 262
Marks, Joseph, 194
Maus (Spiegelman), 268
Mauthausen camp, 35
death of Peter van Pels in, 59
McCleary, Sara, 265
McCullers, Carson, 199–200
Mellor, William, 227–28
Melnick, Ralph, 177, 192
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 199
Menuhin, Yehudi, 179
Mermin, Myer, 191, 207
Miller, Arthur, 191
Molloy, James, 271
Montessori school, Amsterdam: Jewish children at, survival of, 35
Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 265–68
Mulisch, Harry, 8
Müller, Melissa, 117
“My First Day at the Lyceum” (Frank), 36–37
National Alliance (neo-Nazi group), 248
National Coalition Against Censorship, 265
Nederlander Am 219
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, 12
forensic handwriting analysis of Anne’s work, 14, 16, 129, 242, 247–48
Presser’s The Destruction of the Dutch Jews, 37–38
publication of Revised Critical Edition, 16
publication of The Critical Edition, 16
Neuengamme camp, 59, 118
Neutral Milk Hotel, 21
Newman, Arnold, 233
Newsweek review of play, 216–17
New Yorker Janet Flanner article, 82, 180
review of Goodrich-Hackett play adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 217
New York Review of Books, 83
New York Times report on attacks on the diary’s authenticity, 248
review of Goodrich-Hackett play adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, 216–17
review of Kesselman adaptation of play, 221
New York Times Book Review assignment of reviewer, 87, 184–85
review of The Diary, 87–88, 181, 183–86, 202
Nielsen, Harald, 241
“Not Even a Nice Girl” (Thurman), 7
Nussbaum, Laureen, 17–18, 135, 139, 154–55
Obsession, The (Levin), 177, 181–83
Obsession with Anne Frank, An (Graver), 177
O’Connor, Flannery, 88
Odets, Clifford, 190
Opekta Company, 6, 11, 27, 46, 47.
See also annex (secret annex) front office, as part of Anne Frank Museum, 161
relocation to 263 Prinsengracht, 39–40
renamed Gies and Company, 49
Ozick, Cynthia, 170, 172, 173, 174, 178, 220, 222, 266, 267
Perkins, Millie, 230–31, 233–34, 236
Persepolis (Satrapi), 268
Pfeffer, Fritz, 4
arrives at secret annex, 51, 93
Auguste van Pels and, 118, 123
as Dussel in diary, 44, 116
fate after discovery in annex, 59, 118
mealtimes in the annex, 102
Miep Gies and, 44
portrayal of in diary and Broadway play, 75, 102, 116–19
response to deficient diet, 103
Pick-Goslar, Hanneli (“Lies”), 6, 28, 29, 36–37, 50, 60, 109
video at Anne Frank Museum, talking about Anne’s final days, 57, 160
Pierce, William, 248
Poland emigration of Jews to, 42
largest percentage of Jewish population killed, 42
Portman, Natalie, 221–22, 223
Presser, Jacob, 37–38
Pressler Miram 10 90 149–50
Pretzien, Germany, 248–49
Price, Frank, 82, 181, 199
Probst, Robert, 261
Querido publishers, 81
“Reading Anne Frank as a Woman” (Waaldijk), 108
Remembering the Holocaust (Keller), 257
revisions of The Diary (“b” version), 10, 13, 14–15, 17, 18–19, 79, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135–53, 154–55
revisions of The Diary (cont.) depiction of blowup over reading of a controversial work, comparison of versions, 146–47
first entries and second draft, comparison analysis, 135–53
Romein, Annie, 77, 79
Romein, Jan, 77, 78
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 185, 211
“jocular anti-Semitism” of, 86
preface to The Diary by, 85–87
Roth, Heinz, 244
Roth, Philip, 4, 8, 11, 13, 21, 136, 154
Sachsenhausen camp, 59
Satrapi, Marjane, 268
Schildkraut, Joesph, 207–9, 227
Schnabel, Ernst, 30, 32, 56
Schütz, Anneliese, 80
Search, The (Levin), 179, 184
Sebastian, Mikhail, 95
Secker and Warburg publishers, 81
secret annex. See annex (secret annex)
Serenyi, Gitta, 173
Shore, Lesley, 256–57
Silberbauer, Karl Josef, 64–69, 71–72
60 Minutes, 21
Sobibor camp, 173
Spector, Karen, 259
Spiegelman, Art, 268
Stalinist Russia, 174–75
Stangl, Franz, 173
Stern, G. B., 7
Stevens, George, 227–28, 229, 231–37
D-Day footage on YouTube, 237
Stielau, Lothar, 241, 261
Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, The (Melnick), 177
Stone, David, 219
Stone, John, 232
Stoppelman, Max, 59
Strasberg, Susan, 208, 228
Straus, Nathan, 25, 41
Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 175
Tales from the Secret Annex or Tales from the House Behind (Frank), 7, 36, 71, 74
“The Battle of the Potatoes,” 124–25
Cady’s Life (novel fragment), 106, 197–98
“Delusions of Stardom,” 226
teaching The Diary, 9, 19, 21, 154, 171, 253–69
anti-Semitism today, 269
author’s approach, 262–64
author’s class at Bard College, 271–77
author visits Bell Academy, 268–69
Cliffs Notes on The Diary of Anne Frank, 253
“Cyberhunt Teacher’s Page,” 260
depiction of Anne and her story, 259–60
efforts to ban teaching of, 264–68
Goodrich-Hackett drama taught in lieu of The Diary, 262
grim reality of, 256
historical context, helping students learn about, 254
positive element, 256–57
teacher preparation for, 254–55, 257–61
test questions and exams, 257, 258–59
“Teaching the Holocaust” (Johnson), 255
“Teaching the Holocaust Through the Diary of Anne Frank” (Baumel), 263
Tenth Muse, The (Jones), 82
Thieresienstadt camp, 60
Thurman, Judith, 7, 17
Time magazine, 88
Torres, Tereska, 177, 179–80, 1
82–83, 204
Treblinka camp, 173
Turner Diaries (Pierce), 248
20th Century Fox, 227, 231
Tynan, Kenneth, 218
Ukraine, 165
United States publication of The Diary in, 80–88
refusal to grant asylum to the Frank family, 20, 41
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Auschwitz depicted, 55
home movie of Anne Frank in, 31–32
Mellor film footage in, 227–28
Vallentine-Mitchell publishers, 180
Van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Rachel, 54, 57–58
Van Ammers-Küller, Jo, 146–47
Van der Waal, Jopie, 30
Vanguard Press, 81
Van Maaren, W. G., 51–52
Van Maarsen, Jacqueline (Jacque), 39
Van Marxveldt, Cissy, 90–91
Van Pels, Auguste, 4, 44, 99, 226
arrives at secret annex, 50