The Diary Of Anne Frank, A Jewish Victim Of The Holocaust, Converted Into A Graphic Novel
July 11th, 2010 - 7:24 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 11, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager, who, like countless other Jews, was liquidated in a concentration camp administered by Nazi Germany during WW 2. The ‘Anne Frank House Museum’ on Friday initiated a graphic novel edition of Anne Frank’s diary.
The motive behind this decision was to transport the heartbreaking story of Anne Frank to a broader audience.
The spokesperson of the Museum, Annemarie Bekker, has mentioned that the publication was zoomed in on those individuals, who might otherwise have not studied Anne Frank’s diary. This is a diary that has been stated to be the most extensively analyzed document from the heartrending Holocaust epoch.
Employing the fashion of comic books to describe grave and gruesome historical subjects is not something new. ‘Maus’ was Art Spiegelman’s lifelike biography of his father. His father was a survivor of the terrifying Auschwitz death camp. ‘Maus’ attained a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
The latest Anne Frank biography, sanctioned by the museum, is a partnership between the American author, Sid Jacobson, and artist, Ernest Colon. Publisher Hill & Wang will commence the sale of the graphic description in America later this month. MacMillan will commence the vending in Britain in the fall. Renditions in other European languages such as German, French and Italian also are expected. Bekker has declared that this latest biography would be included with classroom didactic stuff about WW 2.
Anne Frank inscribed the diary from her 13th birthday, which was shortly before her family went underground to avoid detection by the anti-Semitic Nazis. She continued to inscribe the diary during the two years she and her family stayed in a secret apartment in Amsterdam. Her diary was published subsequent to the conclusion of WW 2 by her father, Otto Frank, the only survivor. Anne Frank breathed her last breath in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
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